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Cavalhada

Cavalhada is a neighbourhood (bairro) in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil.

Cavalhada
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The place

Cavalhada is a neighbourhood (bairro) in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. It was created by Law 2022 from December 7, 1959.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cavalhada

2 places 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.

  1. 01
    Iberê Camargo Foundation

    The Iberê Camargo Foundation is a cultural institution and museum located in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The Foundation is dedicated to preserving and promoting the work of Brazilian painter Iberê Camargo.

    3.9 km · museum in Porto Alegre, Brazil · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis

    The Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis, better known as UniRitter, is a university in Brazil, with two campuses in the cities of Canoas and Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul. Through these campuses it serves more than 6,000 students.

    3.5 km · University in Brazil · 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.

Go there

Getting to Cavalhada

Airports
Porto Alegre-Salgado Filho (POA), 14 km
  • Florianópolis → Cavalhada
    382 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · R$320–500
  • Navegantes → Cavalhada
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Curitiba → Cavalhada
    554 km · quickest by air, 4h 50m · R$390–600
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cavalhada

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 Cavalhada. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Ilha GrandeBR

    10 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,044 km
  2. 02
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,866 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,897 km
  4. 04
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,249 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,413 km

If you know how people move in Cavalhada – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Cavalhada

Cavalhada is 9 km from Porto Alegre, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.