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6 unusual facts about Canoas


Canoas Air Force Base

The history of Canoas Air Force Base begins in 1937, when the 3rd Army Aviation Regiment (3º RAv) transferred from Santa Maria Air Force Base to Canoas.

Canoas Futebol Clube

Canoas Futebol Clube, also known simply as Canoas is a football team of Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Canoas Sport Club

Canoas Sport Club, usually known as Canoas is a Brazilian football club from Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, founded by the Lutheran University of Brazil (in Portuguese, Universidade Luterana do Brasil - ULBRA).

Marcia Barbosa

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, did her high school at Colégio Marechal Rondon in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, undergraduate and graduate studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Priscila Machado

Priscila Machado (born January 4, 1986, in Canoas) is a Brazilian TV Host and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Brasil 2011.

Rio dos Sinos

It rises in the hills east of Caraá (130 km away from Porto Alegre) at altitudes above 600 meters and covers a distance of about 190 km, flowing into the delta Jacuí in Canoas, at an altitude of only 5 meters.


Canoas Air Force Base

28 July 1950: a Panair do Brasil Lockheed L-049 Constellation registration PP-PCG operating flight 99 from Rio de Janeiro-Galeão to Canoas Air Force Base struck power lines and crashed on a hill after an aborted landing and while holding in bad weather near São Leopoldo.


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