Tietê

[ tyuh-tey; Portuguese tyi-te ]

noun

1. a river in São Paulo state, SE Brazil, flowing NW to the Paraná River. 500 miles (805 km) long.

Example Sentences

The first village of micro-houses was built close to the banks of the Tiete River, in the neighbourhood of Canindé.

From BBC

TV images showed lanes of the Marginal Tiete expressway falling into a widening pit alongside the construction site.

From Reuters

In one image, a discarded sofa lies beached in the Tiete river, in Brazil’s biggest city Sao Paulo, into which hundreds of tonnes of untreated sewage and waste are tipped each day.

From Reuters

The Tiete and Pinheiros rivers overflowed, flooding nearby highways and trapping drivers and passengers for hours.

From Seattle Times

The civil action concerned an environmental management plan for a protected area around the River Tietê in São Paulo state.

From The Guardian