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Vila do Abraão

Vila do Abraão is a village at Ilha Grande. It is part of the Angra dos Reis municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The village is located in a cove and is the largest urban center on the island, with roughly 3.000 inhabitants. It contains ...

Vila Isabel

Vila Isabel is a middle-class neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, known for its music-themed Boulevard 28 de Setembro, which celebrates the neighborhoods long musical heritage. Many musicians like Almirante, Braguinha, Henri ...

Vila Valqueire

Vila Valqueire is a neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This neighborhood is located in the borders of North and Western zones, and has a good quality of life with many squares, green places and services. Vila Valqueire is on ...

Xerem

Xerem is a neighborhood of Xerem District in the municipality of Duque de Caxias in the state of Rio de Janeiro, about 50 km from the city of Rio de Janeiro. Xerem lies on the slopes of the Serra Fluminense, near Petropolis. Within its boundaries ...

Zona Central, Rio de Janeiro

Zona Central is the historical, administrative, and financial centre of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has been undergoing a major revitalisation since it was rediscovered by locals in the 1990s.

Cape São Roque

Cape São Roque or Cape of Saint Roch, is a cape in the northeastern tip of Brazil. Cape São Roque is located in the municipality of Maxaranguape, 51 km north of Natal, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. Cape São Roque is the "point" o ...

Ceara-Mirim

The origin of the city name is a mystery. Camara Cascudo, one of the most important historians in Brazil, gives some alternatives from other authors, with all the alternatives leading to the Tupi language. Jose de Alencar suggests us that Ceara c ...

Genipabu

Genipabu is a beach with a complex of dunes, a lagoon and an environmental protection area located close to Natal, one of the most famous post-cards of the Rio Grande do Norte Brazilian state. Genipabu is used for "buggie" and formerly dromedary ...

Greater Natal

The Greater Natal is a metropolitan area located in Rio Grande do Norte state in Brazil. It consists of nine municipalities, including the capital, Natal. The metropolitan area of Natal is known as a historical, cultural and economic center of st ...

Ipueira

Ipueira is a municipality in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil, in the region of Serido. It is located 318 kilometers to the southwest of Natal, the state capital, and has an area of 127 km 2 and i ...

Microregion of Agreste Potiguar

The microregion consists of the following municipalities: Serra Caiada Senador Eloi de Souza Bom Jesus Serrinha Riachuelo Jundia Passa e Fica Santo Antonio São Pedro São Paulo do Potengi Lagoa Salgada Passagem Lagoa de Pedras Lagoa dAnta Brejinho ...

Microregion of Pau dos Ferros

The microregion consists of the following municipalities: Tenente Ananias Rafael Fernandes Pilões Francisco Dantas Viçosa Itau Portalegre Riacho da Cruz Parana Taboleiro Grande Severiano Melo São Francisco do Oeste Jose da Penha Pau dos Ferros Ma ...

Morro do Careca

The Morro do Careca is a large dune located in the city of Natal in Brazil. It is the main symbol and a common sight on tourist postcards of the city and the state of Rio Grande do Norte. It has a height of 120 metres, with a margin determined by ...

Pedro Avelino

Pedro Avelino is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil. Historic From 1530 until the mid-eighteenth century the Brazilian lands were donated to grantees, and these were shared with others in "sesmari ...

Pico do Cabugi

The Pico do Cabugi, also known as the Serra do Cabuji or Serrote da Itaretama, is the only extinct volcano in Brazil which preserves its original form. It is 590 meters high and is located in the Cabugi Ecological State Park in the municipality o ...

Ponta Negra

Ponta Negra is a beach and neighborhood located in the Brazilian city of Natal, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. Located in the extreme south of the beach is the Morro do Careca, a large dune and a landmark of the city. Located in ...

Administrative divisions of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul

The municipality is divided into 10 districts Portuguese: distritos: Apart from the 1st District, all the others are administered by Subprefects subprefeitos, each of them appointed by the municipal Mayor.

Agudo, Rio Grande do Sul

Agudo is 83 meters above sea level. The total area is 553.1 km² and the population was estimated at 17.833 in 2004. The municipality contains part of the 1.848 hectares 4.570 acres Quarta Colonia State Park, created in 2005. The municipality cont ...

Ametista do Sul

Ametista do Sul is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It borders Planalto, Frederico Westphalen, Cristal do Sul, Rodeio Bonito and Irai. The municipality is known for the amethyst mines in the area. The center of town has a ...

Andre da Rocha

Andre da Rocha is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is surrounded by the municipalities Nova Prata, Protasio Alves, and Guabiju. It was split off from Lagoa Vermelha in 1988, and named in honor of Desembargador Manuel A ...

Arambare

Arambare is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is bordered by Tapes on the north, Camaquã on the west and south, and Lagoa dos Patos on the east. It is at km 396 of the BR-116, 33 km from Camaquã. It is 156 km from Porto ...

Arroio do So

Arroio do So is a bairro in the District of Arroio do So in the municipality of Santa Maria, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is located in east Santa Maria.

Arroio do Tigre

Arroio do Tigre is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The municipality is partly flooded by the reservoir of the Dona Francisca Hydroelectric Plant on the upper Jacui River.

Auxiliadora, Rio Grande do Sul

Auxiliadora is a neighbourhood in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. It was created by Law 2022 from December 7, 1959. The neighbourhood was named after the Paroquia Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora, whose build ...

Barra do Quarai

Barra do Quarai is a Brazilian municipality located near the border with Uruguay and Argentina on the Uruguay River. The town became the westernmost city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and in all Southern Brazil when it was separated from the ...

Boa Vista do Burica

Boa Vista do Burica is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, located at 27°40′07″S 54°06′36″W, at an altitude of 291 meters above sea level. It has an area of 108.732 kilometers². The population was estimated at 6.468 in 2007. ...

Bossoroca

Bossoroca is a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 6.873 in an area of 1610.57 km². The name comes from the Guarani language, and may mean erosion. It is located 524 km west of the state c ...

Cachoeira do Sul

Cachoeira do Sul is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southernmost Brazil. Its Marian Catedral da Nossa Senhora da Conceição is the episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cachoeira do Sul. It is located at a latitude of 30 ...

Cachoeirinha

Cachoeirinha is a city in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Cachoeirinha is an alternative for the people who want to be near Porto Alegre. The city is situated at a strategic point in Rio Grande do Sul state. The city shares borders with ...

Camargo, Rio Grande do Sul

Camargo is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population in 2003 was 2.524, in a land area of 138.1 square kilometres 53.3 sq mi.

Cambara do Sul

Cambara do Sul is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its population was approximately 6.600 in 2010. It has an area of approximately 1212 km². The city is one of the coldest in Brazil and sometimes there is chance of snow. ...

Campina das Missões

Campina das Missões is a Brazilian municipality of the state of the Rio Grande do Sul, located at latitude 27º5920" S and longitude 54º5022" W, being at an altitude of 163 meters. Its population estimate in 2004 was 6.622 inhabitants.

Campo Bom

Campo Bom is a town located in the valley of the Sinos River, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is a city with great industrial potential in the State, being known along with its neighbour Novo Hamburgo as the "shoemaking capital". Th ...

Canela, Rio Grande do Sul

Canela, meaning Cinnamon in Portuguese, is a town located in the Serra Gaucha of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Both Canela and neighboring Gramado are important tourist resorts and they both draw many visitors each year. Ecotourism is very popular i ...

Carazinho

Carazinho is a city located 246 km from Porto Alegre, in the northwest portion of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Carazinho-RS was founded on 1931 and today has a population of 59.857. Carazinhos primary economy is focused on agricultur ...

Cavalhada

Cavalhada is a neighbourhood in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. It was created by Law 2022 from December 7, 1959. The neighbourhood name is quiete old, dating from the 18th century, when the government ...

Chacara das Pedras

Chacara das Pedras is a neighbourhood in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. It was created by Law 2022 from December 7, 1959. Chacara das Pedras was occupied for the first time during the end of the 19th ...

Charqueadas

Charqueadas is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is located on the right side of the Jacui River in the southern-central part of the state, in the region Carbonifera, about 60 km from Porto Alegre and belonging to the m ...

Constantina, Rio Grande do Sul

Constantina, Rio Grande do Sul is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Founded April 14, 1959. The municipalitys motto is "Celeiro da Hospitalidade", meaning "Barn Hospitality".

Coqueiros do Sul

Coqueiros do Sul is a municipality in the North-west of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its part of the subregion of Carazinho and is situated 306 km to the north-west of Porto Alegre, capital of the state. It is situated on a latitude of ...

Cotiporã

A group of attackers forced open the door of a gem factory and put on the run from the police, nine people hostage. The attack took place on Sunday the 30 December 2012 in the village of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. After the attackers had blo ...

Crissiumal

Crissiumal is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with a population of 14.726 inhabitants. It has a fluvial border with Argentina along the Uruguay River. In sports, Crissiumal is known as "the land of goalkeepers", because ...

Derrubadas

Derrubadas is a municipality of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is located at 27º1553" South, 53º5139" West, at an altitude of 485 meters above sea level. In 2004, its population was estimated at 3.325 people. Occupying an area of 36 ...

Diacono João Luiz Pozzobon

Diacono João Luiz Pozzobon is a bairro in the District of Sede in the municipality of Santa Maria, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is located in east Santa Maria.

Dom Pedrito

Dom Pedrito is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is located at: 30° 58 58" S 54° 40 22" W Nearby cities are: Rosario do Sul, São Gabriel, Lavras do Sul, Bage, Santana do Livramento and Republica Oriental do Uruguai. Dis ...

Espumoso

Espumoso is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It belongs to the mesoregion "Nordeste Rio Grandense" and the microregion of "Cruz Alta" along with other 13 municipalities was elected mayor with 42.28% of the valid votes. Th ...

Farroupilha

Farroupilha is a city in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the Serra Gaucha between the cities of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul. The citys total area is 359.3 km 2. Farroupilha has 70.345 residents. Farroupilha hosts an annual Festa Nacional do K ...

Flores da Cunha

Flores da Cunha is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is the largest producer of wines inside Brazil. The Venetian language in its Brazilian form Talian is co-official with Portuguese in Flores da Cunha.

Garruchos, Rio Grande do Sul

Garruchos is a municipality in the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 3.219 in an area of 799.85 km². Its elevation is 69 m by the Uruguay River. It is located 627 km west of the state capital of Porto Alegr ...

Girua

Girua is a municipality in the northern part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 17.198 in an area of 855.92 km². It is located 474 km west of the state capital of Porto Alegre, northeast of Alegrete.