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Cavalhada, Porto Alegre — Area Guide & Where to Stay
A bairro of Porto Alegre in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Cavalhada was drawn onto the city's neighbourhood map in 1959.
About Cavalhada
Where to stay in Cavalhada
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Few travellers book a room in Cavalhada. The bairro belongs to the residential spread of Porto Alegre, and hotel supply thins out here compared with the streets nearer the middle of Rio Grande do Sul's capital. Anyone staying here is choosing a home address over a visitor one.
If you want the everyday side of Porto Alegre, with the city's sights reached by bus or car, Cavalhada answers that.
About Cavalhada
What are the main landmarks in Cavalhada?
Cavalhada owns no monument. Sights belong to the wider city, and Rio Grande do Sul's capital keeps them within a short ride of the bairro. The quarter carries no listed landmark of its own in the record kept for Porto Alegre, which makes it one of the plainer entries on the city's neighbourhood map.
What it has instead is ordinary street life, the daily business of a district that was never laid out for visitors.
What is the history of Cavalhada?
December 1959 is the date on record. A municipal law of that month set out Cavalhada as one of the named bairros of Porto Alegre, giving administrative shape to one quarter of the Rio Grande do Sul capital. The line on the map is the district's founding document.
No earlier charter is recorded.
Where is Cavalhada?
Cavalhada is one bairro among many inside the boundary of Porto Alegre, a Brazilian state capital and the administrative seat of Rio Grande do Sul.
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Updated September 2026