About the City of Porto Alegre
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• Porto Alegre is the capital city of the
southernmost Brazilian state, Rio Grande do Sul. The city has 1.6
million inhabitants, located at the epicenter of the main routes of
activities of Mercosul, with a huge lake with calm water, the Guaíba
lake. The climate is divided into four defined seasons.
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Porto Alegre is one of the greenest cities in Brazil. With an
average of 17m² of green area per capita. In 1976, was created in
the city the first Secretary of the Environment in Brazil.
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Porto Alegre is a national prominence for its quality of life. The
capital consisted of the UN report of 1998, as the city with the
best Human Development Index (HDI) among the national cities with
more than 500 thousand inhabitants.
• Location: Parallel 30º
South
• Climate: Subtropical humid with four distinct
seasons
• Time Zone: (-) 3 hours prior to the Greenwich
Meridian | Distances
Brasília: 2.027km
Manaus: 4.563km
Rio de Janeiro: 1.553km
São Paulo: 1.109km
• Population: 1,530,220 (Census IBGE/2008)
• Average
temperature at the time of the event: 25º C
Information gathered
from the site:
www.portoalegre.rs.gov.br
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HOW TO PREPARE THE AUTHENTIC “Chimarrão” GAÚCHO
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First, to prepare the authentic gaucho mate (chimarrão) we need: a
kettle, a bowl (a cup made from gourd, called cuia) and a pump, the
mate (a special kind of green tea from South América), water and
some stove to heat the water.
• Having checked all the
instruments to prepare the mate put the water to warm up, fill the
bowl around two-thirds full of herb (mate).
• Then with the
palm of the hand plugging the hole in the bowl, turn the cuia back
to around 45 to the vertical until the mate takes up half of it.
When this occurs slowly remove your hand from the bowl being careful
not to collapse the mate hill. |
• With sloping fill it to the edge of
water, and wait for the mate to absorb all the water. Some gauchos
repeat the process 2 times.
• Place the pump in the bowl (the
pump and the bowl should be parallel). This should be done with the
nozzle capped. You can now hold the
nozzle. |
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