Porto Alegre - Brasil

City Data

Porto Alegre
Estate: Rio Grande do Sul
Region: South
Population: 1 360 590 habitants
Area Code: (51)

Distances:

Brasilia: 2 121 km
Florianópolis: 469 km
Curitiba: 711 km
São Paulo: 1123 km
Río de Janeiro: 1578 km
Belo Horizonte: 1731 km

Weather and Temperatures

Weather

Subtropical moist, with the four seasons defined.

Temperatures:

Spring (23/09/ a 21/12) between 15º C a 30º C
Summer (21/12 a 21/03): between 25° C a 38° C
Fall (21/03 a 21/06): Between 10º C a 25º C
Winter (21/06 a 23/09): Between  2º C a 15º C

Porto Alegre

In the streets of Porto Alegre flame the attention the vegetation, the hills and the lakes.  Is also admirable the conservation of the historic buildings, that are the guardians of the memory and the culture.  Nevertheless, what really conquers to the ones that visit the city is the combination of welcoming form, with the great movement of a great city, its architecture, icon of modernity, and its cultural heterogeneousness

Metropolitan region Porto Alegre (RMPA)

Composed of 31 towns, including Porto Alegre, distant in the maximum to 79 Km of the capital.  The Region occupies an area of 9.652,54 km2, corresponding to 3,56% of the territory of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. 
Total population of 3.705.403 inhabitants (IBGE.  Demographic census 2000), one of the areas of bigger population density of the Country, equivalent to 36,40% of the population of the economic Polo State and financial, political, cultural, administrative and of transport of the State.  Thetertiary sector is the most greatest responsible by the generation of jobs in the Region:  1.074 thousand, 68,7% of the total, followed by the secondary one with 420,9 thousand jobs or 26,9% of the total estimated (IBGE.  PNAD - 1999). 

To Arrive

By Land: The capital of Rio Grande do Sul, is interconnected to the federal highways BR-290 and BR-116, that connect it with the other Brazilian states and also with Uruguay and Argentina. 
By air: To airport of the city of Porto Alegre, Airport International Salgado Filho, daily arrive  flights of the Brazilian capitals and of the other countries of the Mercosur .

Services

Tourist Information: +55 0800 51 7686

Bus Station: +55 (51) 3225-0677

Airport International Salgado Filho - (PORTO ALEGRE/RS)
Address: AV.SEVERO DULIUS, 90010 - BAIRRO ANCHIETA- PORTO ALEGRE/RS - CEP: 90200-310
Telephone: (51) 3358-2000 - Fax: (51) 3358-2549

Bank Agency : In Porto Alegre are agencies in all the main national banks and in some internationals banks.