Canela

Canela, meaning Cinnamon in Portuguese, is a town located in the Serra Gaúcha of , Brazil. Both Canela and neighboring are important tourist locations and they both draw many visitors each year.
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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: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Canela Airport and Church of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Aerodrome
is the airport serving Canela and in the Brazilian state of . It is operated by Infraero.

Church
Photo: Tfioreze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , is a located in the Brazilian city of Canela, . It is erroneously known as the Cathedral of Stone, although the church is not actually a cathedral.

Theme park
Photo: Mundo a Vapor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a theme park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gramado.

Photo: Cesar Cardoso, CC BY 2.0.
is in the state of , in . Although practically unknown abroad, 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

Latitude
-29.3636° or 29° 21′ 49″ south
Longitude
-50.8097° or 50° 48′ 35″ west
Population
48,900
Elevation
826 metres (2,710 feet)
IATA airport codes
QCN and CEL
United Nations Location Code
BR QCN
Open location code
582FJ5PR+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415523951
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3467530
Wiki­data ID
Q995318
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Satellite Map

Discover Canela from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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، ریو گرانڈے دو سول”
  • Urdu: “کانیلا”
  • Uzbek: “Canela (Rio Grande do Sul)”
  • Uzbek: “Canela”
  • Vietnamese: “Canela”
  • Volapük: “Canela”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Canela”

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