Pelotas (English spelling)

Japanese: ペロタス（英語表記）Pelotas

A city in the southern part of Rio Grande do Sul state, in the southernmost part of Brazil. The main settlement is about 210 km southwest of the state capital Porto Alegre, a port city near the western shore of the southern part of Lake Patos, overlooking the São Gonçalo Canal, which connects Lake Patos with Lake Mirim to the southwest. Built in 1780. With the rich agricultural and livestock areas in the southern part of the state behind it, it developed as the main shipping port. The city is a major trading center for agricultural and livestock products, mainly beef cattle and rice, and has factories for drying beef, meat processing, leather tanning, flour milling, and rice milling. The port is also important as a cargo transfer port, where cargo from oceangoing ships that travel up Lake Patos from the Atlantic Ocean via the Rio Grande is transferred to shallower ships and transported to the state capital on the northwestern shore of the lake. It is a transportation hub along the main road from the state capital to Uruguay, and is a junction for rail and road connections to the Rio Grande. Population: 289,494 (1991 estimate).

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Japanese:

ブラジル最南部，リオグランデドスル州南部の都市。中心集落は州都ポルトアレグレの南西約 210km，パトス湖南部西岸に近い港湾都市で，同湖と南西方のミリン湖を結ぶサンゴンサロ運河にのぞむ。 1780年建設。背後に同州南部の豊かな農牧地帯を控え，その主要積出港として発展。肉牛，米を中心とした農畜産物の集散，加工が盛んで，乾燥牛肉，食肉加工，なめし皮，製粉，精米などの工場がある。港は貨物積替港としても重要で，大西洋からリオグランデを経てパトス湖を遡航してきた外洋船の貨物は，ここで喫水の浅い船に積替えられ，同湖北西岸の州都まで運ばれる。州都からウルグアイ方面へ通じる幹線道路に沿う交通の要地で，リオグランデへの鉄道，道路の分岐点となっている。人口 28万 9494 (1991推計) 。

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