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Canoas

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[kuh-noh-uhs, kah-naw-ahs] / kəˈnoʊ əs, kɑˈnɔ ɑs /

noun

  1. a city in SE Brazil, N of Pôrto Alegre.


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In Canoas, one of the hardest-hit cities in the state, Paulo Cezar Wolf’s small wooden house has been fully submerged, along with all his belongings.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

Pictures emerged on Wednesday of a horse stranded on a rooftop amidst the floodwater in the city of Canoas.

From BBC • May 9, 2024

Migrants, mostly Venezuelans, waiting to board the bus to take them to the border with Nicaragua last month in Paso Canoas, Costa Rica.Credit...

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2023

“If we keep doing more of the same ... we’re going to lose everything,” said state prosecutor Alexander Guterres Thomé, who regularly inspects the Canoas jail.

From Reuters • Apr. 10, 2019

Being imbarked they hoised sayle, and hauing sayled about twentie leagues, the Indians which still looked on this side and that side to espie some of their enemies, discouered three Canoas.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard