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Porto Airport
Porto Airport, formally Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, is Portugal's second-busiest airport, serving Porto and northern Portugal from 11 km northwest of the city center; it handled a record 16.9 million passengers in 2025.
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, founded 26 March 1772 on the Lago Guaíba; 1,332,845 residents (2022 census), GDP R$104.7 billion (2023), site of the record May 2024 flood.
Porto Boat Bridge disaster
The Porto Boat Bridge disaster, or Ponte das Barcas, was the collapse of a floating crossing over the Douro River in Porto in 1809, during the French invasion.
Porto City Hall
Porto City Hall, known in Portuguese as Câmara Municipal do Porto or Paços do Concelho, is the seat of Porto's municipal government, standing atop Avenida dos Aliados and inaugurated in 1957.
Porto de Sergipe power station
The Porto de Sergipe power station, Porto de Sergipe I, is a natural gas-fired combined cycle plant in Barra dos Coqueiros, Sergipe, Brazil, with about 1.5 GW of capacity.
Porto di Cervia
Porto di Cervia, artificial port-canal at Cervia, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, on the Canale delle Saline; historic salt-export harbor, now a tourist and fishing port with roughly 280-400 berths, named for John Paul II in 2013.
Porto District
Porto District (Distrito do Porto), INE code 13, mainland Portugal's second most populous district: 18 municipalities, 275 parishes, 2,331.65 km², 1,785,405 residents (2021), seat at Porto, in the Norte region.
Porto do Açu FSRU
The Porto do Açu FSRU is a floating storage and regasification unit serving an LNG import terminal at the Port of Açu in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Porto do Pecém power station
The Porto do Pecém power station is a coal-fired power complex at the Port of Pecém in Ceará, Brazil, with two plants totaling 1,085 MW.
Porto Garibaldi-Agostino Gas Field
Porto Garibaldi-Agostino is an offshore natural gas field in the northern Adriatic off Ravenna, Italy, operated by Eni, on stream since 1970 and slated for conversion to CO2 storage.
Porto metropolitan area
The Porto metropolitan area (Grande Área Metropolitana do Porto) is a public-law association of 17 municipalities in northern Portugal, seated in Porto and created in 1991.
Porto Primavera hydroelectric plant
The Porto Primavera hydroelectric plant, formally the Engenheiro Sérgio Motta plant, is a 1,540 MW run-of-river station on the Paraná River at Rosana, São Paulo, with Brazil's longest dam.
Porto Santo Island
Porto Santo Island (Ilha do Porto Santo), Portuguese Atlantic island of the Madeira archipelago, 42.48 km², 9 km golden beach, Pico do Facho 517 m, discovered 1418, linked to Columbus.
Porto Seguro
Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil: coastal municipality on the Buranhém River, site of the 1500 Portuguese landing, former captaincy seat, Iphan-listed historic center, and major sun-and-beach tourist destination with a large Pataxó population.
Porto Velho
Porto Velho, capital of Rondônia, Brazil, on the Madeira River; born of the Madeira-Mamoré Railway (1907–1912), created 1914; 460,434 residents (2022 census), 34,090 km², GDP per capita R$55,170 (2023).
Porto-Novo
Porto-Novo (Hogbonu/Hɔgbonu) is the official capital of Benin, on the Porto-Novo lagoon 35 km from Cotonou. Former Goun kingdom, named by the Portuguese in 1752, French protectorate from 1882; UNESCO Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art.
Portobello (2025 TV series)
Portobello is a 2025 six-episode Italian HBO Max miniseries directed by Marco Bellocchio, starring Fabrizio Gifuni as TV host Enzo Tortora, falsely accused of Camorra ties and drug trafficking in 1983 and later acquitted.
Portobello, Edinburgh
Portobello, Edinburgh: seaside suburb on the Firth of Forth, three miles east of the city centre, with a two-mile sandy beach, Victorian promenade, 1871 pier, 1936 lido and industrial origins in brickworks and potteries.
Portobelo
Portobelo (San Felipe de Portobelo), a Caribbean port town in Colón, Panama, founded 1597; terminus of the Camino Real and site of Spanish colonial trade fairs, 17th-18th century fortifications inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage in 1980, in danger since 2012, home of the Black Christ pilgrimage and Congo culture.
Portobelo fairs
The Portobelo fairs (Spanish: las ferias de Portobelo) were trade fairs held at Portobelo, Panama, where merchants from Spain exchanged European goods for Peruvian silver and gold.
Portoferraio
Portoferraio, main town and ferry port of Elba in the Province of Livorno, Tuscany; founded 1548 by Cosimo I de' Medici as Cosmopoli, Napoleon's 1814–15 exile capital, with about 11,750 residents and 3.2 million annual ferry passengers.
Portofino
Portofino (ancient Portus Delphini) is a Ligurian fishing village turned luxury resort in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy, on the Portofino promontory, with a marine protected area since 1999 and heavy tourism pressure.
Portography
Portography: radiographic imaging of the portal venous system after contrast injection; direct (splenic, transhepatic, transjugular) or indirect arterial techniques, historically central to portal hypertension, now mainly interventional.
Portogruaro
Portogruaro: town of about 25,000 in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, Italy. Its football club, founded 1919 (Portogruaro Calcio ASD since 2013), reached Serie B in 2010 and now plays in Eccellenza.
Portola
Portola, also billed as the Portola Music Festival, is an annual two-day electronic dance music festival held at Pier 80 in San Francisco since 2022, produced by Goldenvoice.
Portolá expedition
The Portolá expedition was a Spanish overland expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá through Alta California in 1769 and 1770, founding San Diego and discovering San Francisco Bay.
Porton Bio (博腾生物)
Porton Bio (博腾生物) is a Chinese cell and gene therapy contract research and manufacturing organization founded in 2018 in Suzhou Industrial Park, controlled by Porton Pharma Solutions.
Porton Biologics (苏州博腾生物制药有限公司) (博腾生物制药)
Porton Biologics (苏州博腾生物制药有限公司), known internationally as Porton Advanced Solutions, is a Chinese gene and cell therapy contract research and manufacturing company founded in 2018 in Suzhou Industrial Park.
Porton Down
Porton Down is a UK government defense research site in Wiltshire, England, established in March 1916 for chemical warfare work and now home to Dstl.
Portonaccio sanctuary at Veii
Portonaccio sanctuary (Santuario di Portonaccio), Etruscan extramural sanctuary of Veii near Isola Farnese, Rome; oracle of Minerva/Menerva with a Tuscan temple of Apollo, source of the 1916 Apollo of Veii terracotta.