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Porto Alegre

Also known as Porto Alegre, Brazil

municipality of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil

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Porto Alegre is the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul, a state in southern Brazil. It is an important economic and cultural center in the region.

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Vinony's link graph records 4,173 inbound references to Porto Alegre, and connects out to Catholic Church, South Region and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

The entry is geolocated on the map in BR.

It is catalogued under topics including 1772 establishments in Brazil, Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul and Populated places established in 1772.

Vinony links it to 111 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: big city
Demonym: Porto-Alegrano
Country: Brazil
Located in: Rio Grande do Sul
Official language: Brazilian Portuguese
Population: 1263403
Area: 496.827
Elevation: 10
Time zone: UTC−02:00
Body of water: Guaíba
Head of government: Nelson Marchezan Júnior
Capital of: Rio Grande do Sul
Shares border with: Cachoeirinha
Official website: prefeitura.poa.br
Image: Aerial view of the point of Porto Alegre extending into Guaíba Lake.jpg
Dialing code: 51

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twinned administrative body: Newark
Commons category: Porto Alegre
topic's main category: Category:Porto Alegre
Commons gallery: Porto Alegre
category for people born here: Category:Births in Porto Alegre
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Porto Alegre
category for films shot at this location: Category:Films shot in Porto Alegre
category of associated people: Category:People from Porto Alegre
different from: Portalegre
IPA transcription: ˈpoɾtu aˈlɛɡɾi
short name: POA
postal code: 90000-000
Human Development Index: 0.805
inception: 1772-03-26
social media followers: 298138
electorate: 1090869
P12749: Tetheella fluctuosa
native label: Porto Alegre

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Encyclopedic overview

Porto Alegre ( UK: /ˌpɔːrtuː əˈlɛɡreɪ/, US: /- ɑːˈleɪɡri, ˌpɔːrtoʊ əˈlɛɡrə/, Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈpoʁtu aˈlɛɡɾi, -tw aˈ-], locally [ˈpoɾ-] ; lit. 'Joyful Harbor') is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of roughly 1.4 million inhabitants (2022) makes it the 11th-most populous city in the country and the centre of Brazil's fifth-largest metropolitan area, with 4.1 million inhabitants (2022). The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian state.

Porto Alegre was founded in 1769 by Manuel Jorge Gomes de Sepúlveda, who used the pseudonym José Marcelino de Figueiredo to hide his identity; the official date, though, is 1772 with the act signed by immigrants from the Azores, Portugal.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Porto Alegre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.