Canoas
Canoas is a city in Grande Porto Alegre in Brazil. It is an industrial city known for its military air base and its universities.
- Type: City with 348,000 residents
- Description: municipality of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
- Also known as: “Capão das canoas”, “Capão do corvo”, “Capital do Avião”, and “カノアス・アエロモーベル”
- Neighbors: Porto Alegre
Places of Interest
Highlights: Igreja São Luiz Gonzaga.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Humaitá and Anchieta.
Canoas
- Categories: municipality of Brazil, big city, and locality
- Location: Grande Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, South, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-29.9216° or 29° 55′ 18″ south
Longitude
-51.18° or 51° 10′ 48″ west
Population
348,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Open location code
582C3RHC+92
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Canoas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانواس”
- Asturian: “Canoas”
- Basque: “Canoas”
- Belarusian: “Каноас”
- Bengali: “ক্যানোস”
- Bishnupriya: “কানোয়াস”
- Breton: “Canoas”
- Bulgarian: “Каноас”
- Catalan: “Canoas”
- Cebuano: “Canoas”
- Chechen: “Каноас”
- Chinese: “卡諾阿斯”
- Chinese: “卡诺阿斯”
- Danish: “Canoas”
- Dutch: “Canoas”
- Esperanto: “Canoas”
- Estonian: “Canoas”
- Finnish: “Canoas”
- French: “Canoas”
- Galician: “Canoas”
- German: “Canoas”
- Greek: “Κανόας”
- Guarani: “Canoas”
- Gujarati: “કેનોઆસ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Canoas”
- Hebrew: “קאנואס”
- Hindi: “कानुअस”
- Hungarian: “Canoas”
- Ido: “Canoas”
- Indonesian: “Canoas”
- Irish: “Canoas”
- Italian: “Canoas”
- Japanese: “カノアス”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಯನೋವಾಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Kanoas”
- Kazakh: “Каноас”
- Kazakh: “كانواس”
- Korean: “카노아스”
- Latvian: “Kanoasa”
- Lithuanian: “Kanoasas”
- Malagasy: “Canoas”
- Malay: “Canoas”
- Marathi: “कॅनोअस”
- Mazanderani: “کانواس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Canoas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Canoas”
- Norwegian: “Canoas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Canoas”
- Ossetian: “Каноас”
- Persian: “کانواس”
- Polish: “Canoas”
- Portuguese: “Canoas”
- Romanian: “Canoas”
- Russian: “Каноас”
- Serbian: “Kanoas”
- Serbian: “Каноас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Canoas”
- Silesian: “Canoas”
- Sinhala: “කනොස්”
- Spanish: “Canoas”
- Swedish: “Canoas”
- Tamil: “கேநோஸ்”
- Tatar: “Каноас”
- Telugu: “కాను ఆస్”
- Thai: “คาโนส”
- Turkish: “Canoas”
- Ukrainian: “Каноас”
- Urdu: “کانوآش، برازیل”
- Venetian: “Canoas”
- Vietnamese: “Canoas”
- Volapük: “Canoas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Canoas”
- Yue Chinese: “卡諾阿斯”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Centro and Nossa Senhora das Graças.
Grande Porto Alegre: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Porto Alegre and Novo Hamburgo.
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