Rosário do Sul is a Brazilian municipality in the southwestern part of the state of

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. The population is 39,314 (2020 est.) in an area of 4,369.65 km².Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística
/ref> Its elevation is 151 m. It is located 385 km west of the state capital of Porto Alegre. Its main industry is agriculture. Many

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and Uruguayan tourists visits during the spring, with a large infrastructure to accommodate the visitors.

Bounding municipalities

* São Gabriel * Santana do Livramento *

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The origin of the name of the city

The first inhabitants came from the Mainland of

Rio Grande de São Pedro Rio Grande (lit. "Great River") is a municipality (''município'') and one of the oldest cities in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It was the state capital from 1835 to 1845. It is the most important port city in the state and has one of ...

and settled the area. It was founded in 1813 and received the name "Rosário". In 1939, it became a city. In the 1940s, there was a movement in changing the city name in order to avoid confusions with

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in Argentina located west of the city. A part of the population favour the name ''Minuano'', others prefer a traditional name lengthened with "do S