Alvorada, Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil

Geography

🇧🇷 Alvorada is a city in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, adjacent to the city of Porto Alegre. The city is also known as "The Capital of Solidarity". Alvorada is primarily a bedroom community with most workers commuting to adjacent cities such as Porto Alegre to work. Alvorada is built around its main road: Avenida Presidente Vargas. The name means "the awakening" or "the sunrise". Although improvements have been made, the city suffers from heavy crime and squatting. The largest of these slums or favelas is the dangerous Umbu subdivision. Drug and arms trafficking are punctuated by periodic violence.

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Geography Alvorada is bordered by the municipalities of Porto Alegre by west, Viamão by south, Gravataí by east and Cachoeirinha by north.

The municipality's growth has occurred from Avenida Presidente Getúlio Vargas (President Getúlio Vargas Avenue), the main central thoroughfare of the city.

The municipality's economy is based mainly on commerce and industry. However, Alvorada is considered a commuter town, since most of Alvorada population works in the municipality of Porto Alegre.

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Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
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Alvorada has a population of over 211,400 people. Alvorada also forms part of the wider Rio Grande do Sul state which has a population of over 11,422,973 people.

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Antipodal to Alvorada is: 128.922,30.001

Locations Near: Alvorada -51.0785,-30.0005

🇧🇷 Cachoeirinha -51.083,-29.95 d: 5.6  

🇧🇷 Viamão -51.023,-30.088 d: 11.1  

🇧🇷 Gravataí -50.983,-29.933 d: 11.8  

🇧🇷 Canoas -51.183,-29.915 d: 13.8  

🇧🇷 Porto Alegre -51.229,-30.028 d: 14.8  

🇧🇷 Sapucaia do Sul -51.146,-29.842 d: 18.8  

🇧🇷 São Leopoldo -51.149,-29.772 d: 26.3  

🇧🇷 Novo Hamburgo -51.128,-29.683 d: 35.6  

🇧🇷 Campo Bom -51.05,-29.667 d: 37.2  

🇧🇷 Montenegro -51.45,-29.683 d: 50.3  

Antipodal to: Alvorada 128.922,30.001

🇯🇵 Amami 129.483,28.367 d: 19825.4  

🇯🇵 Hioki 130.367,31.6 d: 19789.9  

🇯🇵 Satsumasendai 130.299,31.808 d: 19774.9  

🇯🇵 Kagoshima 130.55,31.6 d: 19778.8  

🇯🇵 Kanoya 130.847,31.382 d: 19775.3  

🇯🇵 Aira 130.617,31.717 d: 19764.9  

🇯🇵 Izumi 130.36,32.073 d: 19747  

🇯🇵 Amakusa 130.197,32.456 d: 19716.4  

🇯🇵 Miyakonojō 131.079,31.809 d: 19727.3  

🇯🇵 Kobayashi 130.971,31.987 d: 19720.2  

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