Bento Gonçalves
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- South
- State
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Founded
- 11 October 1890
- Mayor
- Diogo Siqueira ( PSDB )
- Total
- 382.513 km (147.689 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 690 m (2,260 ft)
- Estimate 2025
- 127,977
- Density
- 280.62/km (726.8/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC−3 ( BRT )
- Postal code
- 95700-000
- Area code
- +55 54
- Website
- bentogoncalves.rs.gov.br
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Demonym
- bento-gonçalvense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Official language
- talian
- Population
- 78643
- Area
- 274
- Elevation
- 690
- Shares border with
- Santa Tereza, Rio Grande do Sul
- Official website
- www.bentogoncalves.rs.gov.br
- Image
- Bento Gonçalves - montage.png
- Dialing code
- 54
- Patron saint
- Anthony of Padua
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- topic's main category
- Category:Bento Gonçalves
- Commons category
- Bento Gonçalves
- twinned administrative body
- Nogaredo
- inception
- 1890-10-11
- postal code
- 95700-000
- Human Development Index
- 0.778
- electorate
- 90358
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Encyclopedic overview
Bento Gonçalves ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbẽtu ɡõˈsawvis]) is a municipality located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Created in 1875, it is one of the centers of the Italian immigration in Brazil. It is also known as the 'wine capital of Brazil' due to its vineyards and wine production. In 2022 Census, its estimated population was 123,151 inhabitants.
Ernesto Geisel, President of Brazil from 1974 to 1979 (under the military government), was born in Bento Gonçalves in 1907.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bento Gonçalves” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.