page_title: Piranhas
hierarchical_section_title: Piranhas
caption_attribution_description: Português: Foto da cidade de Piranhas, estado de Alagoas, Nordeste Brasileiro
context_page_description: Piranhas is a historic municipality near the western limit of the State of Alagoas, in the Northeast Region of Brazil.
  Located on the banks of the São Francisco River, on the border with the State of Sergipe, Piranhas was founded in 1891 and originally named Floriano Peixoto.
  It was also known as Porto de Piranhas, because fishermen caught piranhas there.
context_section_description: Piranhas is a historic municipality near the western limit of the State of Alagoas, in the Northeast Region of Brazil.
  Located on the banks of the São Francisco River, on the border with the State of Sergipe, Piranhas was founded in 1891 and originally named Floriano Peixoto (in honor of the Army General who was one of the founders of the Republic and was later elected President).
  It was also known as Porto de Piranhas, because fishermen caught piranhas (a carnivorous predator fish) there.
caption: View of the centre of Piranhas looking upstream along the Rio São Francisco. The left-most building in the photo is a small part of the former railway station building (now a museum) and platform.
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