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Porto Alegre
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municipality of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
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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- 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.
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