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3 unusual facts about Portuguesa


Biofilo Panclasta

He soon left this group behind and wandered around Venezuela with other revolutionary groups that prowled through Trujillo, Portuguesa, Cojedes and Carabobo.

Marianella Castellanos

Marianella Castellanos (born April 15, 1984 in Acarigua, Portuguesa, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan softball player.

Portuguese Venezuelan

There is even a state named Portuguesa theorotically dedicated to the area's Portuguese settlement.


2007 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

The 20 teams played home and away matches among each other and, by the end of the year, the four best-ranked (Coritiba, Ipatinga, Portuguesa and Vitória) were promoted to the first division and the four worst-ranked (Paulista, Santa Cruz, Remo, Ituano) were relegated to the third division.

A Portuguesa

The night after the ultimatum was accepted, the composer, Alfredo Keil, at the suggestion of a group of friends that included Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and Teófilo Braga, wrote the melody for A Portuguesa as a patriotic protest march.

Diogo Luís Santo

He had been monitored by Arsenal's scouting department for more than two years, and the London club tried three times to sign him, failing on all occasions – this included a £9,000,000 offer, promptly rejected by Portuguesa.

Ediglê Quaresma Farias

Ediglê Quaresma Farias or simply Ediglê (born May 13, 1978, in Fortaleza, is a Brazilian central-defender who plays for Portuguesa.

Freire de Andrade

Gomes Freire de Andrade (1757 – 1817), a Portuguese general officer who served in the Portuguese Legion (Legião Portuguesa) in Russia

Iberochondrostoma olisiponensis

It is further distinguished from Iberochondrostoma lusitanicum, a phylogenetically close species that lives in the same area, by having a higher body, a relatively longer head, and a larger eye.

Lisbon Harbor Control Tower

The nine storey tower was designed by Gonçalo Sousa Byrne and is owned by the Governo da Republica Portuguesa.

Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual

A municipality in Anzoátegui state was named after him, along with a town in Apure (Bruzual) and another in Portuguesa (Villa Bruzual).

Panaqolus maccus

The wavy pattern form is found in the actual Orinoco and its tributaries in Bolivar State, Venezuela, while the "normal" patterned P. maccus comes from further north and west (Cojedes, Portuguesa, Guarico, and Apure States) in the llanos where the drainages run into the Apure River.

Promar TV

available = Lara (channel 27, except in El Tocuyo and Carora where it can be seen on channels 13 and 4, respectively), Barinas (channel 29), Portuguesa (channel 25), and Yaracuy

Richard Páez

Born in Mérida, Páez played club football for Estudiantes de Mérida, Portuguesa, Deportivo Táchira and Universidad de Los Andes.

Samuel Lopes

At Portuguesa, he was known as Samuel Lopes to disambiguate with his namesake, Samuel, centre-back.


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