Pôrto Alegre

[ pawr-too ah-le-gruh ]

noun

1. a seaport in S Brazil.

Porto Alegre

/ ˈportu aˈlɛɡri /

noun

1. 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: 3 795 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

In the same year Teutonia was founded by a group of capitalists of Porto Alegre.

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Porto Alegre, the port of the German colonies, has also a growing export trade.

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The latter was obliged to flee from Porto Alegre with hardly a semblance of resistance.

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