Alvorada is a city in

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

, Brazil, adjacent to the city of Porto Alegre. The city is also known as "The Capital of Solidarity." Alvorada is primarily a bedroom community with most workers commuting to adjacent cities such as Porto Alegre to work. Alvorada is built around its main road: Avenida Presidente Vargas. The name means "the awakening" or "the sunrise". Although improvements have been made, the city suffers from heavy crime and

squatting Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...

. The largest of these slums or favelas is the dangerous Umbu subdivision. Drug and arms trafficking are punctuated by periodic violence.

Geography

Alvorada is bordered by the municipalities of Porto Alegre, Viamão, Gravataí and Cachoeirinha. The growth of the municipality has been on the verge of President Avenida Vargas main through the city centre. The economy is based mainly on trade and industry, and the vast majority of the population works in the municipality of Porto Alegre, causing the city to be also known as a city sleeper.

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Photos of AlvoradaAlvorada City Hall
(in Portuguese) {{Authority control Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul Populated places established in 1965 Squatting in Brazil