Cruz Alta is a municipality in the state of

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a state in the southern region of Brazil. It is the fifth-most-populous state and the ninth largest by area. Located in the southernmost part of the country, Rio Grande do Sul is border ...

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. The town is the seat of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cruz Alta The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cruz Alta ( la, Dioecesis Crucis Altae) is a diocese located in the city of Cruz Alta in the Ecclesiastical province of Santa Maria in Brazil. History * 27 May 1971: Established as Diocese of Cruz Alta from the Di ...

. Was founded on August 18, 1821. It is the birthplace writer

Érico Veríssimo Érico Lopes Verissimo (December 17, 1905 – November 28, 1975) was an important Brazilian writer, born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Biography Érico Verissimo was the son of Sebastião Verissimo da Fonseca and Abegahy Lopes Verissimo. H ...

, of journalist and politician

Júlio Prates de Castilhos Júlio is a Portuguese masculine given name. The equivalent in Spanish is Julio. The diminutive form is Julinho, as in Júlio César Teixeira known as Julinho, a Brazilian footballer. See also *Julio (disambiguation) Julio is the Spanish equival ...

, and of model and television presenter

Luize Altenhofen Luize Altenhofen (born July 6, 1979) is a Brazilian actress, model and television presenter. Biography Altenhofen was born Luizeani Altenhofen on July 6, 1979, in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul. Of German descent, her parents, Maria Denise Justo Pa ...

. The

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...

is known to have given rise to many other municipalities as

Ijuí Ijuí () is a Brazilian municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, situated from the state capital, Porto Alegre. In 2020 its population was 83,764, making it the third most populous city of the Missões region, behind Passo Fundo and Erechim. Demogr ...

, Santa Maria,

Passo Fundo 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 munici ...

, Santo Angelo and their initial territory led to more other, became known by the northwestern mother. The

belongs to the Northwest Mesoregion Riograndense and Microregion Cruz Alta. It is located at

latitude In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north– south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body. Latitude is given as an angle that ranges from –90° at the south pole to 90° at the north ...

28 º 38 '19 "south and

longitude Longitude (, ) is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east– west position of a point on the surface of the Earth, or another celestial body. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees and denoted by the Greek let ...

53 º 36' 23"

west West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

, with an average elevation of 452 meters above sea level. Access to the city is by

BR-158 BR-158 is a federal highway of Brazil. One of the longest highways in the country, the road connects Altamira, Pará, to Santana do Livramento on the Uruguayan border where it joins Route 5 (Uruguay). In the original planning of the Ministry o ...

, in the north-south axis, the

BR-377 A BR-377 is an diagonal federal highway in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It connects the city of Carazinho to the border with Uruguay, in the Brazilian city of Quaraí. In Alegrete and Quaraí, there is a large production of rice and the creation ...

to the

east East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

, and also by the RS-342 on the

. The location of the

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is logistically important, being considered as a major trunk road and rail in the

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central part of the

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, with the presence of a dry port in the northeast of the city. center, The cross Foundation allusive Town

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