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Série sobre o meu passeio a PORTO ALEGRE, a CAPITAL do ESTADO do RIO GRANDE DO SUL, o Estado mais Austral do Brasil - de 16 a 18 de Janeiro de 2015 - nº 008 !

Series on my short trip to PORTO ALEGRE (JOYFUL HARBOR), the CAPITAL CITY of the STATE of RIO GRANDE DO SUL (SOUTHERN BIG RIVER), the most Austral State in Brazil - from January, 16th to 18th, 2015 - #008 !

A LARGER VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL POST !

AN EVEN LARGER WS VERSION !

GOOGLE MAPS OF THE AREA (PORTO ALEGRE AND VICINITY) !

GOOGLE MAPS OF THE AREA (PORTO ALEGRE AND VICINITY) - SATELLITE VIEW !

GOOGLE MAPS OF THE AREA (PORTO ALEGRE IN THE STATE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL) !



TEATRO SÃO PEDRO!
SAINT PETER THEATER!

Downtown Porto Alegre is full of older buildings with lovely, charming and beautiful architecture, the kind we don't have any longer!
A typical summer day in that city when rain might come in the morning (and it did) and then throughout the entire day one has sunshine, hot weather and showers here and there!
As usual, that didn't prevent me from walking a lot in search of subjects for pictures that could translate a bit the city into images!

My first trip to PORTO ALEGRE was back in 1988! I traveled all by myself, by bus, to many places in Southern Brazil (the States of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul).
In 2002, while traveling by car from Campinas to Buenos Aires, I just passed by this city.
This third time, I came by plane and it was supposed to be a short trip to take some digital pictures of the city for the first time!
I took a lot and I'll share many with you all here on Trek Earth, from now on, all of them mixed with all the other places I've been to lately.
I'll also write more data about the city in the next pictures.

"Porto Alegre (local Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpoɾtʊ aˈlɛɡɾɪ] ( listen);[1] Joyful Harbour) is the capital and largest city in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Founded in 1769 by Manuel Sepúlveda, its population of 1,509,939 inhabitants (2010) makes it the tenth most populous city in the country and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area, with 4,405,760 inhabitants (2010). The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian state.[2]

Porto Alegre was founded in 1769 by Manuel Jorge Gomes de Sepúlveda, who used the pseudonym José Marcelino de Figueiredo to hide his identity; but the official date is 1772 with the act signed by immigrants from the Azores, Portugal. In the late 19th century the city received many immigrants from other parts of the world, particularly from Germany, Italy and Poland. The vast majority of the population is of European descent.

The city lies on the eastern bank of the Lago Guaiba (Guaiba Lake), where five rivers converge to form the Lagoa dos Patos (Patos Lagoon), a giant freshwater lagoon navigable by even the largest of ships. This five-river junction has become an important alluvial port as well as a chief industrial and commercial center of Brazil." Wikipedia with corrections




SOME PICTURE DATA:

Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D7000
Software: Ver.1.02
Exposure Time: 10/1250 sec
F-Stop: f/11.0
ISO Speed Ratings: 400
Focal Length: 18 mm
Date Taken: 2015-01-17 00:09
Metering Mode: Pattern
Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
File Size: 559 kb