Porto (disambiguation)
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Porto may refer to a number of people, places, things and organisations:
Continental Portugal
Brazil
Italian Peninsula
Corsica
Continental PortugalContinental PortugalContinental Portugal or Mainland Portugal is the designation of the mainland Portuguese territory, located on Europe's Iberian Peninsula....
- PortoPortoPorto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
- Futebol Clube do PortoFutebol Clube do PortoFutebol Clube do Porto , commonly known as FC Porto, Porto, or FCP, is a Portuguese multi-sports club from the city of Porto, in the northern region of the country. Although they successfully compete in a number of different sports, FC Porto is mostly known for its association football team...
- Greater Porto, a.k.a. Grande Área Metropolitana do Porto
- Porto (district)
- Porto MetroPorto MetroThe Porto Metro , part of the public transport system of Porto, Portugal, is a light-rail network that runs underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs...
- Porto VivoPorto Vivo"Porto Vivo", literally translating to "Porto Alive", is the name for an urban rejuvenation project in Porto, Portugal. The Porto City Council, established this project when the City old Town was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO during 1998.-History:Porto City Council's officially...
- Futebol Clube do Porto
- Port winePort winePort wine is a Portuguese fortified wine produced exclusively in the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal. It is typically a sweet, red wine, often served as a dessert wine, and comes in dry, semi-dry, and white varieties...
- Salir do PortoSalir do PortoSalir do Porto is one of the sixteen civil parishes that make up the municipality of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. The parish has an area of 9.9 km² and 770 residents....
BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
- Porto SeguroPorto SeguroPorto Seguro is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Bahia. It is the site where the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral first set foot on Brazilian soil on April 22, 1500...
- Porto VelhoPorto VelhoPorto Velho is the capital of the Brazilian state of Rondônia, in the upper Amazon River basin. The population is estimated to be 426,558 people...
- Porto FerreiraPorto FerreiraPorto Ferreira is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 was 52,026 and the area is 244.88 km².It is situated to the edge of the river Mogi-Guaçu, at an altitude of 549 meters. Its population in 2006 was 54 000 inhabitants...
- Porto AlegrePorto AlegrePorto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
(see also Portalegre, a Portuguese city), and- Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto AlegrenseGrêmio Foot-Ball Porto AlegrenseGrêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense, commonly known as just Grêmio , is a Brazilian professional association football team based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul founded by English and German immigrants on September 15, 1903. Major titles captured by Grêmio include one Intercontinental Cup, two Copa...
, its football club
- Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense
- Porto FelizPorto FelizPorto Feliz is a municipality in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. As of 2004, The population was 49,915, the density was 89.5/km², the area is 557.98 km², and the elevation is 523 m...
- Clube Atlético do PortoClube Atlético do PortoClube Atlético do Porto, usually known simply as Porto , is a Brazilian football team from the city of Caruaru, Pernambuco state, founded on July 23, 1983....
, a football club - Futebol Clube do PortoFutebol Clube do PortoFutebol Clube do Porto , commonly known as FC Porto, Porto, or FCP, is a Portuguese multi-sports club from the city of Porto, in the northern region of the country. Although they successfully compete in a number of different sports, FC Porto is mostly known for its association football team...
, a football club
Italian PeninsulaItalian PeninsulaThe Italian Peninsula or Apennine Peninsula is one of the three large peninsulas of Southern Europe , spanning from the Po Valley in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south. The peninsula's shape gives it the nickname Lo Stivale...
- Porto (Italy), a port at the Tiber mouth and suburbicarian bishopric
- Porto d'AscoliPorto d'AscoliPorto d'Ascoli is an italian civil parish , part of the municipality of San Benedetto del Tronto in the province of Ascoli Piceno, Marche region.-History:...
, a civil parish of San Benedetto del Tronto, in the Marche
CorsicaCorsicaCorsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
- Porto-VecchioPorto-VecchioPorto-Vecchio is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.It is the seat of the canton of Porto-Vecchio, which it shares with Sari-Solenzara, Conca and Lecci. Port-Vecchio is a medium-sized port city placed on a good harbor, the southernmost of the marshy and...
- Porto (Corsica), small village on the west coast of the island, near the Calanche of Piana
People
- Georges de Porto-RicheGeorges de Porto-RicheGeorges de Porto-Riche was a French dramatist and novelist.At the age of twenty, his pieces in verse began to be produced at the Parisian theatres; he also wrote some books of verse which met with a favorable reception, but these early works were not reprinted...
, French dramatist and novelist - Sasckya Porto, Brazilian Playmate
Fictional characters
- Porto, a villain in Power Rangers: Turbo
Other
- Oporto an alternative name for the German wine grape Blauer PortugieserBlauer PortugieserBlauer Portugieser is a red Austrian and German wine grape found primarily in the Rheinhessen, Pfalz and wine regions of Lower Austria. It is also one of the permitted grapes in the Hungarian wine Egri Bikavér . In Germany, the cultivated area covered or 4.5% of the total vineyard area in 2007...