Tietê River
The Tietê River is a Brazilian river in the state of São Paulo. The first known use of the name Tietê was on a map published in 1748 by d’Anville. The name means "truthful river", or "truthful waters”, in Tupi.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in São Paulo, Brazil
- Also known as: “Abhainn Tiete”, “reka Tietê”, “Rio Anhembi”, “Rio Tiete”, “Rio Tieté”, “Río Tiete”, “Tieté”, “Tiete River”, “Tiete rivier”, “Tietê rivier”, “Т’єте”, “Тиете дарёси”, “Тьете”, and “نهر تيتي”
Tietê River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: São Paulo, Southeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-20.63155° or 20° 37′ 54″ south
Longitude
-51.55053° or 51° 33′ 2″ west
Elevation
278 metres (912 feet)
Open location code
58FC9C9X+9Q
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Tietê River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر تييتي”
- Asturian: “Ríu Tietê”
- Azerbaijani: “Tietе”
- Basque: “Tietê”
- Belarusian: “Тыетэ (рака)”
- Belarusian: “Тыетэ”
- Bulgarian: “Тиете (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Тиете”
- Catalan: “Riu Tietê”
- Cebuano: “Rio Tietê”
- Chinese: “鐵特河”
- Chinese: “铁特河”
- Chuvash: “Тиете”
- Czech: “Tiete”
- Dutch: “Tietê”
- Esperanto: “rivero Tietê”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Tietê”
- French: “rio Tietê”
- French: “Rio Tietê”
- Galician: “Río Tietê”
- German: “Rio Tietê”
- Guarani: “Ysyry Tyete”
- Ido: “Fluvio Tietê”
- Ido: “Rivero Tietê”
- Ido: “Tietê fluvio”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Tietê”
- Irish: “An Tiete”
- Italian: “Fiume Tietê”
- Japanese: “ティエテー川”
- Lithuanian: “Tietė”
- Lithuanian: “Tjetė”
- Macedonian: “Тиете”
- Malagasy: “Rio Tietê”
- Mirandese: “Riu Tieté”
- Mirandese: “Riu Tietê”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tietê”
- Norwegian: “Tietê”
- Polish: “Tietê”
- Portuguese: “Rio Tietê”
- Russian: “Тиете”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tiete”
- Slovenian: “Tietê”
- Spanish: “Río Tieté”
- Swedish: “Rio Tietê”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำตีเอเต”
- Turkish: “Tietê Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Тіете”
- Ukrainian: “Тієте”
- Uzbek: “Tiete daryosi”
- Venetian: “Fiume Tietê”
- Welsh: “Afon Tietê”
- Wu Chinese: “铁特河”
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Places to explore: Itapura and Tenente.
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