Lami is a

neighbourhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...

(''bairro'') in the city of

Porto Alegre Porto Alegre (, ; , ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian Federative units of Brazil, state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of roughly 1.4 million inhabitants (2022) makes it the List of largest cities in Brazil, 11th-most p ...

, 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 s ...

, in

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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 () is a municipal biological reserve near Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Formation The Lami José Lutzenberger Biological Reserve was established in 1975 in the Lami neighborhood of the city ...

, founded in 1975. In 2000, there were 3,493 people living here. Many of them are

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