Pôrto Alegre
noun
a seaport in S Brazil.
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Porto Alegre
Porto Alegrenouna 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)
Pôrto Alegre
American
[pawr-too ah-le-gr uh]
/ ˈpɔr tʊ ɑˈlɛ grə /
noun
Porto Alegre
British
/ ˈportu aˈlɛɡri /
noun
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Only a couple of Argentina’s giants have anything like the revenues of the powerhouses from Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Pôrto Alegre and Belo Horizonte.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
The difference, this time, was that Zanotta was taking those calls not in São Paulo or Pôrto Alegre, but Dallas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2021
Mr. de Azambuja, who was born in Pôrto Alegre, Brazil, and works in Madrid, uses industrial steel clamps and construction materials in their raw form to build sculptures evocative of Brutalist architecture.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2018
In 2012, two handfuls of grass sprigs were shipped down from Texas to an off-site turf farm in Pôrto Alegre, Brazil, where it was grown and tended by Marcelo Matte of Green Grass Brasil.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2016
She died in the city of Porto Alegre at a home belonging to the Teresian Sisters, the religious community she was part of.
From BBC ● May 1, 2025
Football had been his escape from the favelas of Brazil's Porto Alegre, but now it felt like a dead end.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
When the two puppies arrived at a makeshift shelter in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, their rail-thin legs buckled from exhaustion.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
It said there is also a high likelihood that winds will intensify and water levels rise in the Patos lagoon next to the state capital, Porto Alegre, and the surrounding area.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024
The latter was obliged to flee from Porto Alegre with hardly a semblance of resistance.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.
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