Caxias

Caxias is a city of 157,000 people (2022) in Eastern Maranhão. It is one of the largest economic centers in the state, and an important political, cultural and population center in the state of Maranhão. 

Understand

Caxias has an architecture inherited from the 19th and early 20th centuries in the Portuguese style, although a good part of its historical heritage has been lost over the years. 

Caxias is known as the "land of crystalline waters", being a region endowed with a very rich water table, a lot of vegetation and a rainy period. 

Its dry period is known as brobró (a reference to the last syllable of the dry months: September, October, November and December).

Get in

The city is intersected mainly by the BR-316 highway, which connects the capital of Maranhão, São Luís, to the capital of Piauí, Teresina. In addition to the state highways (MA-127, MA-034, MA-349) that connect Caxias to other regions of the state.  The MA-034 road connects Caxias to Coelho Neto and Buriti Bravo. The MA-127 connects the city with São João do Sóter and the MA-349 connects it to Aldeias Altas.

There is a bus terminal, called Terminal Rodoviário Nachor Carvalho. 

Get around

The public transport system in Caxias is carried out by minibus vehicles, in a consortium autonomous transport system.

See

• Balaída Ruins (Morro do Alecrim). Ruins of an old police barracks which housed Portuguese troops in the early 19th century. 
• Morro do Alecrim. Hill with a panoramic view of the city. 
• Praça Magalhães de Almeida. 
• Train Station. 
• The Palace of Comendador Alderico Silva, the Episcopal Palace of Caxias, the Cultural Center of Caxias, the Balaiada Memorial and the churches, Mother Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição and São José, Church of Nossa do Rosário dos Pretos, Church of São Benedito, Cathedral Church of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios and Church of Nossa Senhora de Nazaré are some of the most beautiful architectural monuments in the city.

Do

• Balneário Veneza.