Dourados

Commerce and entertainment

Dourados has a modern shopping mall with 191 stores and 500 parking spaces. This city also offers to its citizens recreational parks and squares.

Dourados is well-served with many other shops, including those selling top Brazilian jeanswear brands such as Forum, Triton and Ellus and the middle-market clothes and homewares store Riachuelo.

There are nightclubs and many restaurants in the city centre which offer a broad range of cuisines including a number of Churrascarias (Churrasco is most commonly beef but also lamb and pork carved at the table from joints on skewers) as well as Pizza parlours and numerous places catering to the substantial Japanese community.

On Saturday night and Sunday morning there is a large open-air market (Feira) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Dourados_Market.jpg offering locally produced fruits and vegetables.

At the Feira there are restaurants providing Brazilian and Japanese food as well as stalls selling popular local delicacies such as sugarcane juice (Caldo de Cana), Doce de Leite (a type of caramel made from milk and sugar and cooked until it is either a thick syrup or it can be formed into fudge-like pieces) and cocada (coconut and condensed milk cooked until either sticky or hard).

Many locals make regular trips to the Paraguayan border town of Ponta Porã/Pedro Juan Caballero where they are able to buy relatively low-cost low-duty imported items such as electronic goods, perfumes and designer clothing.

Education

Dourados has five universities, and more than 200 schools, and is considered an education pole of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

• (UEMS)
• Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD)
• (UNIGRAN)
• (UNIDERP)
• (UNIP – Interativa)
• (IFMS)

Sports

Clube Recreativo Desportivo 7 de Setembro and Ubiratan Esporte Clube are two football clubs based in the city. Both clubs play at Estadio Fredis Saldivar. Another stadium located in the city is named Estádio Napoleão de Souza.

Transportation

Dourados is served by Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport located 14 km from downtown Dourados.

Demography

People

Notable people

• Lucas Leiva, football player
• Keirrison, football player
• Lucas Kanieski, swimmer

Sister cities

• Chile Iquique, Chile
• USA Kearney, Nebraska, United States

Climate

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