The Catholic religion is predominant in the city is celebrated annually Araioses Patroness of Our Lady of the Conception of 29 November a 08 out of ten.

Had its origin in the village of Indians Araios, the branching of Tapuias and inhabiting the northern and eastern Maranhão Piauí.

Araioses today differs from past development presents a vegetative growth in the face of globalization.

It lies to the east, in the microregion of the Parnaíba Low, limited to the North by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south with the municipalities of Magallanes and San Bernardo de Almeida, the East with the Parnaíba River, and to the west with the municipalities of Water sweet and Santana do Maranhão.

Your glory is always constant Thy children await the future And the higher steps of the History of Brazil ye shalt unite; About us remain greatness Sublimated by Nature."