PORTO 



Porto. Dist. of Portugal, in the 

 prov. of Entre Minho-e-Douro. 

 Named from its chief town, Oporto, 

 it is hilly in the E., level by the 

 coast, and is well served by rlys. 

 Area, 893 sq. m. Pop. 680,000. 



Porto Alegre. City of Brazil, 

 capital of the state of Rio Grande 

 do Snl. Situated at the conver- 

 gence of the Jacuhy and other 

 navigable rivers, near the N. end 

 of Lagoa dos Patos, 160 m. N.N.E. 

 of Rio Grande, its harbour is 

 commodious and provided with 

 docks. It has a cathedral, technical 

 schools, and government buildings, 

 manufactures woollens, footwear, 

 glass, etc., and exports cattle, 

 salted beef and pork, hides, to- 

 bacco, Paraguayan mate, beans, 

 and cereals. It is the terminus of 

 several lines of rlys. to the interior. 

 An active river trade is carried on 

 by steamers with the agricultural 



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Poito Alegre, Brazil. 



The harbour and business district 

 of the city 



colonies in the N. part of the state. 

 Pop. 100,000. 



Porto Amelia. Settlement on 

 the shores of Pemba Bay, Portu- 

 guese East Africa, about 120 m. N. 

 of Mozambique. It is under the 

 administration of the Nyasa Com- 

 pany, and has been since 1907 the 

 capital of the district instead of 

 Ibo. The town was laid out by the 

 Spilsbury expedition in 1900. In 

 1915-16 Pemba Ba,y formed the 

 base for the operations of the Por- 

 tuguese against the Germans in 

 German East Africa. Pop. 500. 



Portobcllo. Watering-place of; 

 Midlothian, Scotland, part of the 

 city of Edinburgh. It stands on 

 the Firth of Forth, 3 m. from Edin- 

 burgh proper, with a station on 

 the N.B. Rly. It is a popular sea- 

 side resort, and has some manuf ac 

 tures. Portobello was a separate 

 burgh, with its own provost and 

 council, until 1896, when it was 

 included in Edinburgh. The name 

 is supposed to have been taken 

 from a cottage built here in 1742 

 by a sailor who had taken part in 

 the capture of Porto Bello in 1739. 

 See Edinburgh. 



Porto Bello, Panama. Ruins of the old fortress 



Porto Bello. Seaport of Pana- 

 ma, on the N. side of the isthmus. 

 It stands on the Caribbean Sea, 

 24 m. N.E. of Colon. Once com- 

 mercially important, its prosperity 

 has declined. It was taken by the 

 British under Admiral Vernon 



in 1739, when the 

 .; fortifications 

 i were demolished. 

 j Pop. 1,500. 



Porto Em- 

 j pedocle (f or- 

 : merly Molo di 



Girgenti). Sea- 

 port of Sicily, in 



the prov. of 



Girgenti. It 



stands on the S. 



coast, 5 m. by 



rly. S.W. of 



Girgenti, for 



which it is the 



port. Here are 



large warehouses 



of the Girgenti 



sulphur and corn merchants, who 

 export great quantities of these 

 commodities. Pop. 11,000. 



PortoFerrajpoRPoRTOFERRAio. 

 Town of Italy, in the prov. of Leg- 

 horn. It is the capital of the island 

 of Elba, and is on the S. slopes of 

 a citadel-crowned hill on the N. 

 coast of the island. Here are two 

 residences used by Napoleon when 

 in exile. W. of the town is a large 

 foundry. The lighthouse on the hill 

 is a well-known landmark. There 

 are good sea-bathing establish- 

 ments. Pop. 5,000. See Elba, illus. 

 Port of Spain. Seaport of 

 Trinidad, British W. Indies, and 

 capital of the island. Situated on 

 the E. coast, facing the Gulf of 

 Paria, its harbour is a port of call 

 for many lines of steamers, and a 

 wireless telegraphy station. A 

 finely built town, with wide streets, 

 it has Protestant and R.C. churches, 

 botanical gardens, in which is the 

 governor's residence, a royal 

 college, etc. Commercially it has 

 supplanted St. Thomas, and exports, 

 cocoa, sugar, asphalt, coconuts, 

 copra, rum, and petroleum, besides 

 re-shipping produce from Vene- 



PORTO 



zuela. It is also 

 known as Spanish 

 Town. Pop. 

 60,000. 

 Porto Grande 



OR MlNDBLLO. 



Seaport of St. 

 Vincent, Cape 

 Verde Islands. A 

 coaling station, 

 and the commer- 

 cial centre of the 

 archipelago, i t 

 stands on the 

 N.W. coast of the 

 island, and has an 

 excellent harbour. 

 Portogruaro. Town of N. 

 Italy, in the prov. of Venice. It 

 stands on the small river Lemene, 

 1J m. above the site of the ancient 

 Roman military station of Con- 

 cordia. It is a rly. junction 42 m. 

 from Venice and is the seat of a 

 bishop. Pop. 3,100. 



Porto Maggiore. Town of N. 

 Italy, in the prov. of Ferrara. It 

 is close to the W. shore of the 

 lagoon, Valle del Mezzano, at the 

 N.W. corner of the Adriatic Sea, 

 and is 15 m. S.E. of Ferrara and 

 a rly. junction on the route between 

 Ferrara and Ravenna. Pop. (com- 

 mune) 20,000. 



Porto Maurizio. Frontier and 

 maritime prov. of N.W. Italy, in 

 Liguria. Bounded W. by France, 

 N. by Cuneo, E. by Genoa, and S. 

 by the Ligurian Sea, it is wholly 

 mountainous and contains the 

 chief towns of the Italian Riviera. 

 It is traversed by the new rly. 

 from Cuneo to Ventimiglia, and by 

 the coast line from Nice to Genoa. 

 Noted particularly for its splendid 

 olives, it produces and exports 

 oil, wine, fruit, and flowers. Its 

 area is 456 sq. m. Pop. 149,600. 



Porto Maurizio. City of Italy, 

 capital of the prov. of Porto 

 Maurizio. It is a seaport and 

 Lealth resort on the Italian Riviera, 



Port of Spain, Trinidad. Protestant 

 church of Holy Trinity, built in 1818 



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