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Pôrto Alegre

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Pôrto A·le·gre  (-lgr)
A city of southeast Brazil at the northern end of a large lagoon near the Atlantic Ocean. It was founded c. 1742 by emigrants from the Azores. Population: 1,390,000.

Pôrto Alegre (Portuguese) [ˈportu aˈlɛgri]
n
(Placename) a port in S Brazil, capital of the Rio Grande do Sul state: the country's chief inland port; the chief commercial centre of S Brazil, with two universities (1936 and 1948). Pop.: 1 320 000 (2000), with a conurbation of 3 349 000 (1995)


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