Lami is a
neighbourhood
A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural are ...
(''bairro'') in the city of
Porto Alegre
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, the state capital of
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 ...
, in
Brazil
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. It was created by Law 6893 from September 12, 1991.
Lami is home to the
Lami José Lutzenberger Biological Reserve
Lami José Lutzenberger Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica do Lami José Lutzenberger) is a municipal biological reserve near Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Formation
The Lami José Lutzenberger Biological Reserve was establi ...
, founded in 1975.
In 2000, there were 3,493 people living here. Many of them are
fishermen.
Neighbourhoods in Porto Alegre
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