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The University of Passo Fundo (Portuguese: Universidade de Passo Fundo), also known as UPF, is a Brazilian private university. Founded in 1968, [1] it is located in the city of Passo Fundo, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It has about 20,000 students as of 2016.
Passo Fundo is a municipality in the north of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is named after its river. It's the twelfth largest city in the state with an estimated population of 204,722 inhabitants living in a total municipal area of 780 km2.
UPF may refer to:
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Passo Fundo is an archdiocese located in the city of Passo Fundo. Before being elevated to an archdiocese itself in 2011 it was part of the Ecclesiastical province of Porto Alegre in Brazil.
Nova Bassano is a municipality and a city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil.
The Universidad Paulo Freire (UPF) is a university in Managua, Nicaragua, with branches in Managua, San Marcos, Carazo, San Carlos, Río San Juan. It is named after Brazilian educator Paulo Freire.
The Passo Fundo River is a river of Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil. It is a tributary of the Uruguay River.
João Almino is a Brazilian novelist. He is the author of The Brasília Quintet, which consists of the novels Ideas on Where to Spend the End of the World, Samba-Enredo, The Five Seasons of Love ; The Book of Emotions and Cidade Livre. His 2015 novelEnigmas da Primavera was published in English in 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press and won the Jabuti Award for Best Brazilian Book in translation. His seventh novel was published in November 2017 in Brazil: Entre facas, algodão. His most recent novel, Homem de Papel, was published in 2022. He has also authored books of philosophical and literary essays. He taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), at the University of Brasília (UnB), the Instituto Rio Branco, Berkeley, Stanford and The University of Chicago. In 2017, he was elected as one of the 40 members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Pedro Otto Bumbel was a Brazilian professional football player and coach who managed a number of Spanish club sides, including Sabadell, Valencia, Racing de Santander, Elche, Sevilla, Atlético Madrid and Málaga.
The Federal University of Fronteira Sul is a public, federally-funded Brazilian university serving the interior of Southern Brazil. It was formally founded by act of legislature in September 2009, and planned to graduate 10,000 students within its first five years.
Lauro Kurtz Airport is the airport serving Passo Fundo, Brazil.
Esporte Clube Passo Fundo, commonly referred to as Passo Fundo, is a Brazilian football club based in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul. It currently plays in Campeonato Gaúcho Série A2, the second level of the Rio Grande do Sul state football league.
Miguel Fernando Cassola de Miranda Relvas is a Portuguese politician and former leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Álvaro André Rodrigues da Silva, or simply Branquinho, is a Brazilian striker. He currently plays for Manaus.
Guasca Rugby Clube is a Brazilian Rugby Union club from the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Guasca was founded in September 20, 2012.
Josué Modesto dos Passos Subrinho is a Brazilian professor of economics at the Federal University of Sergipe. He is currently Rector of the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana Brazil.
Artur Sérgio Batista de Souza, known simply as Artur, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a left-back for Ponte Preta.
Noroeste Rio-Grandense was one of the seven Mesoregions on the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. It included 216 municipalities grouped in thirteen microregions. The IBGE has since discontinued the microregion system for population tracking, replacing it with the term "immediate geographic region".
Juliana Scotá Stein is a visual artist and photographer. She graduated in Psychology from Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) in 1992 and lived in Florence and Venice where she studied art. She continued to work with photography during the 1990s, developing her craft.
Donaldo Ross was a Uruguayan football player and manager.
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