Canoas
Canoas is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, forming part of the Greater Porto Alegre area.
Canoas is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, forming part of the Greater Porto Alegre area. It is the largest municipality of the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre and the third largest municipality of Rio Grande do Sul. Officially declared a city on June 27, 1939, after its separation from São Sebastião do Caí and Gravataí, Canoas derives its name from the historical crafting of canoes in the area. It is the second largest city in the Porto Alegre metropolitan area, with the third-largest population and the third-highest GDP in the state. It is also ranked as the 79th most populous city in Brazil.
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Worth seeing in and around Canoas
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lutheran University of Brazil
The Lutheran University of Brazil is a university with campuses in several states throughout Brazil.
4 km · Brazilian private non-profit university · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
Dr. Sezefredo Azambuja Vieira Museum. Getúlio Vargas Municipal Park (Parque Municipal Getúlio Vargas). La Salle Museum and Historical Archive (Museum e Arquivo Histórico La Salle). Natural Science Museum (Museu de Ciências Naturais). Paquetá Beach (Praia da Paquetá). Beach on the Gravataí River. Praça Santos Dumont (Praça do Avião).
From Wikivoyage: Canoas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Canoas
- Airports
- Porto Alegre-Salgado Filho (POA), 8 km
- Stations
- Nossa Senhora de Fátima Aerodrome, 4.5 km
- Florianópolis → Canoas364 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · R$300–470
- Navegantes → CanoasTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Curitiba → Canoas534 km · quickest by air, 4h 36m · R$370–580
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Canoas
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Canoas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundremarks |- |infant || free || must pass under or over the turnstile |- |student || R$ 2.40 || must use a special TRI card |- |adult || R$ 4.80 || second trip is R$ 2.40 (with TRI) |- |resident senior (60 yr+) || free || must use a special TRI card |- |senior (65 yr+) || free || any document proving age is enough |} The Lotação is an alternative transportation system, with fewer lines, served by minibuses with up to 20 people in capacity.
- Get aroundAll minibuses are air conditioned and some of them have reclining seats.
- Get aroundThe minibuses are easily recognized by their "red, white and blue" color.
From Wikivoyage: Porto Alegre, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Canoas
Canoas is 13 km from Porto Alegre, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.