Canela
Canela, meaning Cinnamon in Portuguese, is a town located in the Serra Gaúcha of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Both Canela and neighboring Gramado are important tourist locations and they both draw many visitors each year.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 48,900 residents
- Description: municipality of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
- Also known as: “Canela, Rio Grande do Sul” and “Canella”
- Neighbors: Caxias do Sul and Gramado
Places of Interest
Highlights include Canela Airport and Church of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Canela Airport
Aerodrome
Canela Airport is the airport serving Canela and Gramado in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is operated by Infraero.
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
Church
Photo: Tfioreze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, is a Catholic church located in the Brazilian city of Canela, Rio Grande do Sul. It is erroneously known as the Cathedral of Stone, although the church is not actually a cathedral.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gramado.
Gramado
Photo: Cesar Cardoso, CC BY 2.0.
Gramado is in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in Southern Brazil. Although practically unknown abroad, Gramado is an extremely popular tourist destination for Brazilians due to its cool weather, European architecture, family-friendly activities and ecotourism options at the neighbor municipality of Canela.
Canela
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Grande Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, South, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-29.3636° or 29° 21′ 49″ southLongitude
-50.8097° or 50° 48′ 35″ westPopulation
48,900Elevation
826 metres (2,710 feet)IATA airport codes
CEL and QCNUnited Nations Location Code
BR QCNOpen location code
582FJ5PR+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 415523951OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3467530Wikidata ID
Q995318
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Canela” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانيلا”
- Armenian: “Կանելա”
- Asturian: “Canela”
- Basque: “Canela (Rio Grande do Sul)”
- Basque: “Canela”
- Bengali: “ক্যানেলা”
- Bishnupriya: “কানয়েলা”
- Catalan: “Canela”
- Cebuano: “Canela”
- Chechen: “Канела (Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул)”
- Chechen: “Канела”
- Chinese: “Canela”
- Chinese: “卡內拉”
- Chinese: “卡内拉”
- Danish: “Canela”
- Dutch: “Canela”
- Esperanto: “Canela”
- Finnish: “Canela”
- French: “Canela”
- German: “Canela”
- Greek: “Κανέλα”
- Guarani: “Canela”
- Gujarati: “કેનેલા”
- Hebrew: “קנלה”
- Hungarian: “Canela”
- Indonesian: “Canela”
- Irish: “Canela”
- Italian: “Canela”
- Kannada: “ಕೆನೆಲಾ”
- Kazakh: “Kanela”
- Kazakh: “Канела”
- Kazakh: “كانەلا”
- Latvian: “Kanela”
- Lithuanian: “Kanela”
- Malagasy: “Canela”
- Malay: “Canela”
- Marathi: “केनेल”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Canela”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Canela”
- Norwegian: “Canela”
- Persian: “کانلا (ریو گراند دو سول)”
- Persian: “کانلا”
- Polish: “Canela”
- Portuguese: “Canela”
- Romanian: “Canela”
- Russian: “Канела”
- Sinhala: “කැනේලා”
- Spanish: “Canela”
- Swedish: “Canela”
- Tamil: “கன்னீல”
- Tatar: “Канела (Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул)”
- Tatar: “Канела”
- Telugu: “క్యాన్ల”
- Thai: “กาเนลา”
- Turkish: “Canela”
- Ukrainian: “Канела”
- Urdu: “کانیلا”
- Uzbek: “Canela (Rio Grande do Sul)”
- Uzbek: “Canela”
- Vietnamese: “Canela”
- Volapük: “Canela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Canela”
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