Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre
	Municipality
	O Município do Porto Alegre; The Municipality o Porto Alegre
	Frae upper left: Usina do Gasômetro; the Laçador statue (seembol o the ceety); panoramic view o the port; Public Market; Monument to the Azorean people with the Admeenistrative Center o the State o Rio Grande do Sul.
	Banner Seal
	Eik-name(s): Porto (spoken), POA (written)
	Motto(s): Loyal and Valiant city of Porto Alegre
	Porto Alegre Location in Brazil
	Coordinates: 30°01′59″S 51°13′48″W / 30.03306°S 51.23000°WCoordinates: 30°01′59″S 51°13′48″W / 30.03306°S 51.23000°W
Kintra	Brazil
State	Rio Grande do Sul
Mesoregion	Metropolitana de Porto Alegre
Microregion	Porto Alegre
Foondit	26 Mairch 1772
Govrenment
• Mayor	José Fortunati (PDT)
Area
• Municipality	496.827 km2 (191.826 sq mi)
Elevation	10 m (30 ft)
Population (2010)
• Municipality	1,509,939 (10t)
• Density	394/km2 (1,020/sq mi)
• Metro	4,405,769 (4t)
Demonym(s)	Porto-alegrenses
Time zone	UTC-3 (UTC-3)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-2 (UTC-2)
Postal Code	90000-000
Area code(s)	+55 51
Website	Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul

Porto Alegre (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpoɾtu aˈlɛɡɾi] ( listen), 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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.