Aerial photo of the port city of Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil.


Porto Alegre is a Brazilian city and the capital of Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul belongs to the Porto Alegre metropolitan meso and micro Porto Alegre. With an area of ​​almost 500 km ², has a diverse geography, with hills, lowlands and a large lake, the Guaiba, lying 2027 kilometers from Brasilia, the national capital. Porto Alegre is one of the greenest cities in the country and literate, is a regional center of attraction for migrants in search of better living conditions, work and study, and has an infrastructure in many respects superior to the other capitals of Brazil. Made headlines when it hosted the first international edition of the World Social Forum and was recently chosen as one of the venues of the World Cup 2014. It also has a qualified and diverse culture, with intense activity in virtually all areas of the arts, sports and sciences, often with national prominence, besides having rich folk traditions and a significant heritage buildings in centenarians and numerous airflow is served by Salgado Filho Airport, with 37,600 m² of floor space and can simultaneously receive up to 28 large aircraft, like the Boeing 747. The control aircraft movement is fully automated and computerized. Another terminal of 15 thousand square meters, meets the third level of aviation (conventional aircraft and turboprop). The Aeroshopping 24 hours with shops, services, food court and cinemas. Your air cargo terminal has monthly capacity of 1,500 tons of cargo exported and imported 900 tonnes of cargo. The average daily movement is 174 aircraft, connecting Porto Alegre directly or indirectly to all the country's capital, to the inner cities of São Paulo and the southern states, besides keeping lines with direct flights to the countries of the Southern Cone Around 13 000 passengers use the airport every day, which is the main southern Brazil and is undergoing an expansion. Source: Wikipedia


Size: 4989px × 3206px
Location: Porto Alegre Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
Photo credit: © Lélia Valduga / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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