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Rolador
Rolador is a municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 2,296 (2020 est.) in an area of 295.01 km2. It is located 524 km west of the state capital of Porto Alegre, northeast of Alegrete. Bounding municipalities *São Pedro do Butiá *Salvador das Missões * Cerro Largo *Mato Queimado * Caibaté *São Luiz Gonzaga São Luiz Gonzaga ( Portuguese for St. Aloysius Gonzaga) is a municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its population is 33,293 (2020 est.) in an area of 1295,68 km². It was founded in the 17th century as a Jesuit mission to ... * Roque Gonzales References External links *http://www.citybrazil.com.br/rs/rolador/ Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roque Gonzales, Rio Grande Do Sul
Roque Gonzales is a municipality located in the northwestern region of the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, east of the Uruguay River and the Argentinian border. Roque Gonzales was named after the jesuit missionary and saint Roque González de Santa Cruz. The municipality would be partially flooded by the proposed Garabí Dam. Neighboring municipalities *Porto Xavier * São Paulo das Missões *São Pedro do Butiá *Rolador *São Luiz Gonzaga * Dezesseis de Novembro * Pirapó History Primarily German-Brazilians or Deutschbrasilianer from the old colonized areas of the state of Rio Grande do Sul settled Roque Gonzales. The original German settlements whence they came were often referred to as ''Altkolonie'' because they are located on the eastern part of the state where Germans first put down roots, starting in 1824 (i.e. Estrela, Montenegro, ''Lajeado'', etc.). ''East Pomeranian'' has been spoken in ''Esquina Emanuel'' since the early days of its foundation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Luiz Gonzaga
São Luiz Gonzaga ( Portuguese for St. Aloysius Gonzaga) is a municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its population is 33,293 (2020 est.) in an area of 1295,68 km². It was founded in the 17th century as a Jesuit mission town. It is located 503 km west of the state capital of Porto Alegre, northeast of Alegrete. Bounding municipalities * Roque Gonzales * Rolador * Caibaté *São Miguel das Missões *Bossoroca *Santo Antônio das Missões Santo Antônio das Missões ( Portuguese meaning "Saint Anthony of the missions") is a municipality in the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 10,050 (2020 est.) in an area of 1710.87 km2. Distance from ... * São Nicolau * Dezesseis de Novembro References External links *http://www.citybrazil.com.br/rs/saoluizgonzaga/ Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caibaté
Caibaté is a municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 4,823 (2020 est.) in an area of 259.66 km2. The name comes from the Tupi language. It is located 524 km west of the state capital of Porto Alegre, northeast of Alegrete. Bounding municipalities *Mato Queimado * Guarani das Missões *Vitória das Missões *São Luiz Gonzaga *Rolador Rolador is a municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 2,296 (2020 est.) in an area of 295.01 km2. It is located 524 km west of the state capital of Porto Alegre, northeast of Alegrete. Bounding municipalitie ... References External links *https://web.archive.org/web/20070927224212/http://www.citybrazil.com.br/rs/caibate/ Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mato Queimado
Mato Queimado is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwestern part of the state of the Rio Grande do Sul. The population is about 1,629 (2020 est.) in an area of 114.64 km². It is located 489 km in the west of the state capital of Porto Alegre and northeast of Alegrete. Regional language As is the case in many of its surrounding municipalities, listed below, the Riograndenser Hunsrückisch language is spoken in Mato Queimado since pioneer days and has been intrinsic to its history. Although technically a language, it is commonly referred to as a dialect of the German language. In recent years the Portuguese translation of its name is gaining wider use throughout Brazil: ''hunsriqueano riograndense'' (no caps in Port.). However, the majority of estimated three million native speakers of Riograndenser Hunsrückisch in Rio Grande do Sul mostly often refer to their language simply as ''Deitsch'' or ''Hunsrückisch'', and the majority of them probably do not recog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alegrete
Alegrete is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul located in southern Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area .... Its medium altitude is . Its estimated population in 2020 was 73,028 inhabitants and the total area is (the largest municipality of the State and of Southern Brazil). Its inhabitants are called ''Alegretenses''. Alegrete was settled in 1816 and became a municipality in 1857. It is the hometown of the abolitionist leader Franklin Gomes Souto, of the politician, diplomat and statesman Osvaldo Aranha, first President of the United Nations General Assembly, and of the Brazilian poet Mário Quintana. Every September 20 ( Ragamuffin War Day), about 8,000 young, adult and old horsemen and horsewomen parade through its streets, using their native costume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerro Largo, Rio Grande Do Sul
Cerro Largo is a municipality in the northwestern part of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It occupies an area of 174.64 km² (67.43 sq mi) at 28º09'0" south 54º45'0" west, at an elevation of 211 m (692 ft) above sea level. Its population was 14,189 inhabitants. Regional language Cerro Largo was settled soon after 1900 mostly by German Brazilians from the old German settlements on the eastern part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the ''Altkolonie'' (in German). Portuguese is the official language but Riograndenser Hunsrückisch is still spoken by many citizens in the area. It is the birthplace of São Paulo's current archbishop, Cardinal Odilo Scherer Odilo Pedro Scherer (; born 21 September 1949) is a Brazilian cardinal of the Catholic Church, who has been the Archbishop of São Paulo since March 2007. He was made a cardinal in November 2007. In the international media, he was mentioned as a .... In 2012 the state chamber of deputies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador Das Missões
Salvador das Missões is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. As of 2020, the estimated population was 2,733. Regional language Like many towns in the state which were first settled by German-speaking Europeans, the German language is still present in daily family and community life, if not as much in the public sphere since World War II; the regional German dialect is called Riograndenser Hunsrückisch, as it is a Brazilian variant of the dialect spoken in the Hunsrück region of southwest Germany. In 2012 the state chamber of deputies voted unanimously in favor of recognizing this German dialect an official historical culture good to be preserved. See also *German-Brazilian German Brazilians (German language, German: ''Deutschbrasilianer'', Hunsrik: ''Deitschbrasiliooner'', pt, teuto-brasileiros) refers to Brazilians of full or partial Germans, German ancestry. German Brazilians live mostly in the country's South ... * List of municipalities in Rio Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Pedro Do Butiá
São Pedro do Butiá is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. As of 2020, the estimated population was 2,949. Minority language Like many towns in the state which were first settled by German-speaking Brazilians from the ''Altkolonie'' or the old colonies in the East, the regional German language is still present in daily family and community life, if not as much in the public sphere since World War II due to language repression public policies implemented by the State (i.e. Getúlio Vargas' aggressive nationalization campaign). Among other informal names (and often pejorative descriptions), the local dialect is gaining recognition by its formal name, Riograndenser Hunsrückisch (international language code: ISO 639-3 hrx), a reference to the Hunsrück region of southwest Germany, where the language has strong linguistic roots (see: West Middle German dialects). In 2012 the state chamber of deputies voted unanimously in favor of recognizing this Germanic d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 bordered clockwise by Santa Catarina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Uruguayan departments of Rocha, Treinta y Tres, Cerro Largo, Rivera and Artigas to the south and southwest, and the Argentine provinces of Corrientes and Misiones to the west and northwest. The capital and largest city is Porto Alegre. The state has the highest life expectancy in Brazil, and the crime rate is relatively low compared to the Brazilian national average. Despite the high standard of living, unemployment is still high in the state, as of 2017. The state has 5.4% of the Brazilian population and it is responsible for 6.6% of the Brazilian GDP. The state shares a gaucho culture with its neighbors Argentina and Uruguay. Befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noroeste Rio-Grandense
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" (). Microregions * Carazinho * Cerro Largo * Cruz Alta * Erechim * Frederico Westphalen * Ijuí * Não-Me-Toque * Passo Fundo * Sananduva * Santa Rosa * Santo Ângelo Santo Ângelo is a municipality located in northwestern Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. It has about 77,568 inhabitants (according to 2020 IBGE estimate) and the total area of the municipality is about 679 km². It borders Giruá to the n ... * Soledade * Três Passos References {{coord, 28.3878, S, 53.9150, W, source:wikidata, display=title Mesoregions of Rio Grande do Sul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world; and the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of . It borders all other countries and territories in South America except Ecuador and Chile and covers roughly half of the continent's land area. Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States Of Brazil
The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which together form the Federative Republic of Brazil. There are 26 states (') and one federal district ('). The states are generally based on historical, conventional borders which have developed over time. The states are divided into municipalities, while the Federal District assumes the competences of both a state and a municipality. Government The government of each state of Brazil is divided into executive, legislative and judiciary branches. The state executive branch is headed by a state governor and includes a vice governor, both elected by the citizens of the state. The governor appoints several secretaries of state (each one in charge of a given portfolio) and the state attorney-general. The state legislative branch is the legi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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