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Canoas

American  
[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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Carla Sassi, chairwoman of Grad, a Brazilian nonprofit that rescues animals after disasters, said she is meeting with state government officials in Canoas to discuss emergency measures to rescue pets.

From Seattle Times • May 9, 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

A tanker truck leaves the Alberto Pasqualini Refinery of state-run oil company Petrobras in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, October 25, 2021.

From Reuters • Feb. 23, 2022

These troops, conducted by Maroons, soon found the English in a camp by the river, "making of certaine Canoas to goe into the North Sea, and there to take some Bark or other."

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John