Canoas

American  

[kuh-noh-uhs, kah-naw-ahs] / kəˈnoʊ əs, kɑˈnɔ ɑs /

noun

1. a city in SE Brazil, N of Pôrto Alegre.

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Canoas

In Canoas, one of the hardest-hit cities in the state, Paulo Cezar Wolf’s small wooden house has been fully submerged, along with all his belongings.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024

Pictures emerged on Wednesday of a horse stranded on a rooftop amidst the floodwater in the city of Canoas.

From BBC ● May 9, 2024

Migrants, mostly Venezuelans, waiting to board the bus to take them to the border with Nicaragua last month in Paso Canoas, Costa Rica.Credit...

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

A tanker truck leaves the Alberto Pasqualini Refinery of state-run oil company Petrobras in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, October 25, 2021.

From Reuters ● Feb. 23, 2022

Being now past the S.E. part of the Island, we coasted down on the South side, and we saw abundance of Canoas a fishing, and now and then a small Village.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 by Blair, Emma Helen