Porto Alegre is located in the southernmost state of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul. It is actually pretty close to Argentina and Uruguay, which are the countries that the state Rio Grande do Sul is bordering. As usual, wikipedia gives some basic information about the city, and also the local government has a very informative website, which, however, is in Portuguese: http://www.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/. From above, the city looks as follows: Satellite pictures of Porto Alegre.
To get some idea about the distance from Porto Alegre to other South American cities, we made the following table:
| Distances from international cities | |
| Montevideo | 890 Km |
| Asunción | 1.102 Km |
| Buenos Aires | 1.063 Km |
| Santiago de Chili | 2.600 Km |
| Distances from other Brazilian cities | |
| Florianópolis | 525 Km |
| Curitiba | 715 Km |
| São Paulo | 1109 Km |
| Rio de Janeiro | 1558 Km |
| Belo Horizonte | 1709 Km |
| Brasília | 2027 Km |
| Cuiabá | 2629 Km |
| Recife | 3911 Km |
| Fortaleza | 4147 Km |
| Belém | 4157 Km |