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Cu·ri·ti·ba

 (ko͝or′ĭ-tē′bə)
A city of southern Brazil southwest of São Paulo. It was founded in 1654 but did not grow rapidly until the late 19th and early 20th centuries when German, Italian, and Slavic immigrants began to develop the surrounding area.
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Curitiba

(ˌkʊərɪˈtiːbə)
n
(Placename) a city in SE Brazil, capital of Paraná state: seat of the University of Paraná (1946). Pop: 2 871 000 (2005 est)
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Cu•ri•ti•ba

(ˌkʊər ɪˈti bə)

n.
the capital of Paraná, in SE Brazil. 1,052,147.
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Noun1.Curitiba - a city in southeastern Brazil
Brasil, Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil - the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter
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At this moment he was lying ill of fever in the clay lands near Curitiba in Brazil, having been drenched with thunder-storms and persecuted by other hardships, in common with all the English farmers and farm-labourers who, just at this time, were deluded into going thither by the promises of the Brazilian Government, and by the baseless assumption that those frames which, ploughing and sowing on English uplands, had resisted all the weathers to whose moods they had been born, could resist equally well all the weathers by which they were surprised on Brazilian plains.
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He made Curitiba buses run like our LRTs and MRTs, only on the ground and more efficiently.
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Leal (2012), ao analisar o clima local da cidade de Curitiba, verificou que nas regioes com maior quantidade de areas permeaveis, concentracao de remanescentes florestais ou presenca de areas verdes publicas ocorreram menores temperaturas e aumento da umidade relativa do ar, atuando como "ilhas de frescor urbano".
THE INFLUENCE OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF URBAN FOREST IN THE IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING MICROCLIMATE/A INFLUENCIA DAS DIFERENTES TIPOLOGIAS DE FLORESTA URBANA NO MICROCLIMA DO ENTORNO IMEDIATO
local time to present himself to police in the city of Curitiba to begin serving a sentence of 12 years and one month for a corruption conviction.
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A taxa de Tempo de Concentracao sofre alteracoes conforme a cidade tem sua cobertura impermeabilizada, vide a bacia do rio Belem, no municipio de Curitiba (PR), onde em 1820 levava-se 165 minutos para que todo o escoamento da bacia, entao com 11,04% da sua cobertura impermeabilizada, passasse a contribuir em seu exutorio.
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Conforme dados do IBGE, Curitiba, em 2015, tinha uma populacao estimada de 1.879.35 habitantes.
The absenteeism profile among municipal public servants of the city of Curitiba, from 2010 to 2015/O perfil do absenteismo dos servidores da prefeitura municipal de Curitiba, de 2010 a 2015

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