Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre (, Happy Harbour) is the tent maist populous municipality in Brazil, wi 1,409,939 indwallers, an the centre o Brazil's fowert lairgest metropolitan aurie (3,979,561 indwallers). It is an aa the caipital ceety o the soothrenmaist Brazilian state o Rio Grande do Sul. The ceety is the soothrenmaist caipital ceety o a Brazilian state. Porto Alegre is ane o the maist important cultural, poleetical an economic centers o Brazil. Twa Mercosul kintras, Argentinae an Uruguay, border on the State o Rio Grande do Sul.

Porto Alegre wis foondit in 1742 bi immigrants frae the Azores, Portugal. In the late 19t century the ceety received mony immigrants frae ither pairts o the warld, parteecularly Germany, Italy, an Poland. The vast majority o the population is o European strynd.

The ceety lies on the eastren bank o the Rio Guaiba (Guaiba Lake), whaur five rivers converge tae form the Lagoa dos Patos (Lagoon o the Ducks), a giant freshwater lagoon navigable bi even the lairgest o ships. This five-river junction haes acome an important alluvial port as well as a chief industrial an commercial centre o Brazil.

The port o Porto Alegre is important for transportin local produce. The "Gaucho caipital" haes a broad-based economy that lays parteecular emphasis on agricultur an industry. Agricultural production includes produce sic as ploums, peaches, rice an cassava grown on rural smahauldins. The shae an laither industries are an aa important, especially in Novo Hamburgo, in the Metropolitan Region o Porto Alegre.

Porto Alegre haes a lang coastline on the Guaíba Loch, an its topography is punctuatit bi 40 hills. In the loch, a vast body o watter, a maze o islands facin the ceety creates an archipelago whaur a unique ecoseestem gies shelter tae abundant wildlife. The ceety aurie concentrates 28% o the native flora o Rio Grande do Sul, wi 9,288 species. Amang thir, thare are mony trees which are the vestiges o the Atlantic Forest. Fauna are an aa diversifee\d, specially in the islands an hills. The Portoalegrense environs include mony pairks, squares an woodit streets.

 Sister ceeties 
Porto Alegre's sister ceeties are:

  Austin, Unitit States (2002) 
  Horta, Portugal (1993) 
  Kanazawa, Japan (1967) 
  Kuching, Malaysie (2008) 
  La Plata, Argentinae (1982) 
  Morano Calabro, Italy (1982) 
  Natal, Brazil (1992) 
  Newark, Unitit States (2006)   Paris, Fraunce (2001) 
  Portalegre, Portugal (2000) 
  Punta del Este, Uruguay (1984) 
  Ribeira Grande, Portugal (1982) 
  Rosario, Argentinae (1994) 
  Saunt Petersburg, Roushie (2000) 
  Salihli, Turkey (2010) 
  Suzhou, Cheenae (2004) 

 References 


Category:Port ceeties in Brazil
Category:State caipitals in Brazil