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	ooBdoo
		Porto is a modern cosmopolitan large northern Atlantic city and one of the most industrialised districts of Portugal.
		Porto is the cultural and administrative center of Grande Área Metropolitana do Porto metropolitan area, and Greater Porto NUTS III subregion capital, in Norte region.
		Porto area represented the worst epidemiological situation in the country, with very high rates in some city boroughs and in some poor fishing and declining industrial communities.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Porto (4132 words)

	Oporto
		Oporto (Portuguese: Porto, population 263,000, with 1,200,000 in the metropolitan area) is the second city in size and importance in Portugal.
		It is situated in the north of the country, on the northern bank of the Douro River, just off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
		The football clubs FC Porto and Boavista FC[?], playing in the highest Portuguese division, are both from Oporto.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Porto.html (615 words)

	4/36.- Porto, view from the cathedral. Tourist Information - VIRTOURIST.COM
		Porto is situated by the Douro river, not far from the Atlantic.
		Porto is actually a mix of 5 cities: Porto, Gaia, Maia, Matosinhos and Gondomar; small cities in the surroundings that were "swallowed" by the city.
		The old Porto has a population of 350,000 inhabitants, but the metropolitan area has 1.2 million inhabitants.
	www.virtourist.com /europe/porto/04.htm (96 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Porto (or Orporto) is located in the north west of Portugal on the Douro River and is the second largest city in the country.
		The city of Porto is the economic center of the Oporto Metropolitan Area (OMA).
		Porto is well known as an industrial city but also has a great deal to offer in terms of culture and entertainment.
	www.usatoday.com /marketplace/ibi/porto.htm (636 words)

	Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The metropolitan area is governed by the Junta Metropolitana do Porto (JMP), headquartered in Avenida dos Aliados, in downtown Porto under the presidency of Rui Rio (also the mayor of Porto municipality) since the Municipal Elections held late 2005, when he succeeded Valentim Loureiro (mayor of Gondomar).
		Porto Metro is a Rapid transit system controlled by the Metropolitan area that links the municipalities of Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia, Matosinhos, Maia, Vila do Conde and Póvoa de Varzim.
		Greater Porto is served by a great number of Motorways linking the main central areas of the metropolitan region and the region with other main Portuguese cities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Metropolitan_Area_of_Porto (713 words)

	IACES Porto \| About Porto \| History of Porto
		The City of Porto (the city is "Oporto" in English and in some more languages) is located in the Northwest of Portugal's Atlantic coast, on the northern bank of the River Douro.
		Porto is also connected to the main Portuguese and European cities by a wide network of bus services, trains and highways.
		In 1996, UNESCO classified the historical area of Porto as "World Heritage", without a doubt due to the history and beauty of the city, as well as the social and urban renovation being undertaken in the oldest and most degraded areas - through support programs destined at the local populations, sport and culture.
	www.iacesporto.org /porto (968 words)

	Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
		The city is located in the coastal area, in the southwest of the municipality, the Rates Mountains to the east creating a unique microclimate, reducing, in part, the rainfall levels comparing to the neighbouring Minho regions.
		The parish of Rates with a large area of forest (which includes a pedestrian passage and a chase surrounded area) and the forest and agricultural spot within the southern area of the city are considered of landscape value.
		In the interior area of the city, the Municipal Sports Pavilion which is used for several indoor sports and the new City Park Stadium (Estádio Municipal) for the practice of football and athletics are the most recent structures added to the list.
	creekin.net /c6160-n150-p-voa-de-varzim-portugal.html (4718 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Porto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		IPA [{{IPA'poÉ¾tu}}]), population 263,000 in 15 parishes, with 2,000,000 in the Porto Urban Area (continuous urban aglomeration), is Portugal's second city.
		Although, the credibility of this study is now being questioned and the fact that the city proper no longer functions independently.
		Porto tuberculosis rates are at Third World proportions (when compared to London which faces a similar phenomenon http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=95088).
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Porto (4287 words)

	Porto travel guide - Wikitravel
		Some major areas of the city, however, are not that well served by the metro, although a new lines will be opening soon (circa 2007).
		Porto is famous for the eponymous port wine, a fortified wine (20%) made by adding brandy to the wine before distillation is complete.
		Porto is generally a safe place to be, if you take some precautions like walking in well illuminated streets, keeping your money to yourself and don't show off.
	wikitravel.org /en/Porto (2405 words)

	Continent of Great Cities - Porto Alegre, Brazil
		Porto Alegre, meaning "joyous port," is the capital city of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
		Located in the Southern Hemisphere, Porto Alegre's seasons are opposite those of the U.S. The city was founded in 1742 by Portuguese immigrants from the Azores Islands.
		Porto Alegre today has more than two million residents in its greater metropolitan area.
	www.greatcities.org /targeted-cities/porto-alegre.html (586 words)

	Participative democracy in Porto Alegre, by Bernard Cassen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The metropolitan area of the city has a population of 1.3 million in a conurbation of 3.3 million, so the scale of the operation, combined with the rigorous and progressive way in which it is conducted, make it an experiment in direct democracy unlike any other anywhere in the world.
		The PT took Porto Alegre in 1988, with Olivio Dutra (currently running for state governor) as mayor, and held it in 1992 with Tarso Genro and again in 1996 with Raul Pont, winning more votes for the mayor and more council seats on each occasion.
		The three Porto Alegre dailies and the local radio and television networks have nothing whatever to say, except for hostile editorials, about what the experiment means in practice, despite the fact that it would provide excellent material for investigative reports.
	mondediplo.com /1998/10/08brazil (1880 words)

	An encounter on the lower Douro \| Samizdata.net
		Porto is a city with a chasm through the middle of it, through which flows the magnificent Douro river crossed by wonderful bridges built during the 20th century.
		And on that basis, I find that the most useful source on the web is here, which gives the population of the Porto metropolitan area as 1.325 million.
		But of course, there is a certain arbitrariness to definitions of metropolitan area, too, and it probably is two million by some other perfectly sensible definition.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/006859.html (5769 words)

	Porto Alegre
		Porto Alegre, one of the largest cities in southern Brazil, is the capital of Rio Grande do Sul State.
		Porto Alegre is the centre of Brazil's third largest communications network, the Brazil South Network (Grupo RBS) and one of the foremost education establishments, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
		Porto Alegre is predominantly an industrial city in which the country’s main food, textile and shipping industries are located, the landscape of this beautiful city is considered to have the greatest concentration of trees in Brazil
	www.carnaval.com /brazil/portoalegre (2554 words)

	Brazil
		In September, in a Porto Alegre police jail, Luis Carlos Martins Rodrigues was fatally burned in a fire in his cell.
		At least 407 of the 600 recognized indigenous areas had reached the final registration stage, 24 were in the process of demarcation, and 169 had yet to be processed.
		A 2000 study by the DIEESE concluded that the minimum wage was approximately one-fifth of the salary necessary to support a family of four in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27888.htm (18270 words)

	Migrações, Cidades e Minorias/Migrations, Cities and Minorities: Centro de Estudo Geográficos
		The concentration of immigrants in metropolitan areas is particularly apparent in the case of Portuguese-speaking African (PALOP) immigrants, evidenced by the fact that 81% live in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) and in the Setúbal Peninsula.
		Brazilians are much less concentrated in the LMA and are represented in significant numbers along the northern coastal region (especially in the Porto Metropolitan Area) and, to a lesser extent, in the Algarve in southern Portugal.
		The difference corresponds to their increasingly larger numbers in areas adjacent to the LMA, namely in the rural and agricultural areas of the Ribatejo, Oeste and Alentejo, and in the industrial areas along the northern and central coasts.
	www.ceg.ul.pt /mcm/execsum-eng.htm (1729 words)

	Renseignements internationaux - Metro Line Investment in Porto Alegre, Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT, U.S. A transportation study for Porto Alegre's metropolitan area was completed in July 2004.
		A transportation study for Porto Alegre's metropolitan area was completed in July 2004.
		Porto Alegre has 2 million residents and is the capital of Rio Grande do Sul state.
	strategis.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/fr/gr124302f.html (542 words)

	"Porto Alegre- An Open House" - Continent of Great Cities
		Because of its strategic location, dynamic commerce, national political influence, and large population, Porto Alegre is truly one of Brazil's major cities.
		Porto Alegre is the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
		We are convinced that the "open house" attitude of the Porto Alegrenses (name by which the city's residents are known) is indicative of open hearts to the Message of Jesus!
	www.greatcities.org /pg.asp?ID=60 (635 words)

	Porto - 1
		With Lisbon, it is one of Portugal's chief economic centres and the focus of a large metropolitan area.
		Also here are the University of Porto (1911), the biggest in the country, the Higher School of Fine Arts (1836), the National Museum of Soares dos Reis, containing a collection of paintings and antiquities, and the Casa de Serralves, with both its museum and delightful gardens.
		Cale, a pre-Roman settlement on the south bank of the Douro, was occupied by the Romans and became known as Portus Cale.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /freud/828/porto_1.html (268 words)

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		University of Porto - FAUP, Porto — Portugal, April 26, (in Portuguese).
		Balsas, C. (2004) Porto Metropolitan Area: The regional governance of a City-Region in Portugal.
		Balsas, C. (2003) Porto Metropolitan Area: A ‘Donut' City-Region at the Eve of the XXI Century.
	www.public.asu.edu /~cbalsas/finished_project/CV.htm (3071 words)

	C.M. Porto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Monitoring System on Urban Quality of Life (MSUQL), is a tool for municipal activity used to increase knowledge regarding the current status of the quality of life in the city of Porto that is available to its inhabitants and visitors (commuters, tourists, customers of goods and services, etc.).
		The aim is to focus on monitoring a set of factors which, directly or indirectly, influence the living conditions in an urban centre (job supply, leisure and recreation facilities, cultural events, etc.), by regularly collecting, processing, analysing and publishing quantitative data which is either provided by official sources or collected in other ways.
		Direct surveys of the inhabitants are carried out periodically, so that an objective evaluation of the developing trends can be compared with the degree of satisfaction expressed by the residents, on a regular basis.
	www.cm-porto.pt /pagegen.asp?SYS_PAGE_ID=474044 (253 words)

	Porto Convention Bureau - Facts about PCB
		The Porto Convention Bureau is a private, non-profit making marketing organisation, specialised in the promotion of Porto/Northern Portugal as a meeting and incentive destination.
		The Porto Convention Bureau is a non-profit-making private association, specialised in Tourist Marketing of Porto and Northern Portugal as a destination for Business Tourism (Conferences, Seminars, Events and Incentives).
		The founding members are the Municipal Councils of the Porto Metropolitan Area, the Portuguese Business Association, The Porto Trade Association, The Porto Traders Association, the University of Porto, the Portuguese Association of Travel Agents and the National Union of Hotel and Similar industries of the North.
	www.portocvb.com /Facts/facts.html (803 words)

	Vilmar Faria Fellowship Program-Fellows information
		Using Brazilian census data for the Porto Alegre metropolitan area, Azevedo tested the hypothesis that the growth in peripheral housing areas for the poor are mainly due to intraurban migration rather than interurban migration.
		Other relevant academic experience in the international area occurred in Spain (1988) at Barcelona University, where he participated in seminars and courses in the areas of social and health sciences.
		Her area of interest is social policy evaluation, especially evaluation of poverty programs.
	www.prc.utexas.edu /vffp/fellows.htm (4383 words)

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		Pires C., and P.M.A. Miranda, Adjoint inversion of the source parameters of near-shore tsunamigenic earthquakes, in Tsunamis, Case Studies and Recent Developments, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, Vol.
		P.M.A. and A.R. Tomé (2005): Large scale spatial structure of observed temperature trends, 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, AMS Annual Meeting, San Diego.
		Teixeira, M.A.C., P.M.A. Miranda, J.L. Argain, M.A. Valente (2005): A linear study of high drag states and flow stagnation produced by mountain waves, 28th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM) and the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP).
	www.igidl.ul.pt /idl.htm (8916 words)

	Porto
		Sporting Lisbon and FC Porto drew 1-1 and continued to share the lead in the Portuguese league standings on Sunday.
		A second-half equaliser by Ricardo Quaresma earned Portuguese champions Porto a 1-1 draw in their top of the table clash with Sporting on Sunday.
		Porto and Sporting each have 16 points from seven matches.
	www.paleorama.com /Disney-P/Porto.php (2001 words)

	ENERGAIA - Energy Management Agency of Gaia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ENERGAIA is the representative of Vila Nova de Gaia municipality in the Sustainable Future project, which involves the 9 municipalities o Porto metropolitan area (Espinho, Gondomar, Maia, Matosinhos, Porto, Póvoa de Varzim, Valongo, Vila do Conde e Vila Nova de Gaia) in a Local Agenda 21 process.
		These municipalities are working together with the citizens in order to develop an Integrated Environmental Strategy for the Porto metropolitan area.
		The technical support for the project is provided by a multi-disciplinary team of technical staff of the municipalities, researchers and managers.
	www.energaia.pt /engl/estrategia.php (527 words)

	Informations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Porto Companies interested in doing business with external markets.
		Visits to Porto of tour operators, travel agents, journalists, and other opinion makers in the field of tourism.
		Support in bringing to Porto international events, such as congresses, etc.
	www.portoturismo.pt /en/informacoes/preparar_negocios.asp (116 words)

	O Destino Porto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is carried out in a “theatrical village”, located at the Crystal Palace Gardens (in tents specially set up for the Festival, at the Almeida Garrett Library and in other outdoor spaces), where national and also international creators and theatre companies present their shows, including several subjects of the performing arts.
		It’s an event with the participation of more than 450 000 students and a high number of people that depend on the Metropolitan Area of Porto, during an entire week.
		These numbers are only possible to be achieved due to the diversity of the produced events, not only in quantity but mainly in quality.
	www.portoturismo.pt /en/eventos/Maio.asp (160 words)

	FEUP - Relationships between goods distribution and public transport in urban areas - the case of a hypermarket in Porto
		Relationships between goods distribution and public transport in urban areas - the case of a hypermarket in Porto
		The case presented in this paper reports on the result of a bus line extension up to the main entry of hypermarket in Porto Metropolitan Area.
		It appears that the existence of home delivery service provided by the hypermarket contributes to the increase of the patronage in public transport.
	www.fe.up.pt /si_uk/publs_pesquisa.FormView?P_ID=9961 (154 words)

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