Cruz Alta
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- locality
- Demonym
- cruzaltense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Population
- 68793
- Area
- 1360.37
- Elevation
- 475
- Shares border with
- Santa Bárbara do Sul
- Official website
- www.cruzalta.rs.gov.br
- Image
- Cruz-alta-rua-coronel-pillar-1.jpg
- Dialing code
- 55
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- topic's main category
- Category:Cruz Alta (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Commons category
- Cruz Alta (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Human Development Index
- 0.750
- electorate
- 47531
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Encyclopedic overview
Cruz Alta is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The town is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cruz Alta. Was founded on August 18, 1821.
The municipality is known to have given rise to many other municipalities as Ijuí, Santa Maria, Passo Fundo, Santo Angelo and their initial territory led to more other, became known by the northwestern mother. The municipality belongs to the Northwest Mesoregion Riograndense and Microregion Cruz Alta. It is located at latitude 28 º 38 '19 "south and longitude 53 º 36' 23" west, with an average elevation of 452 meters above sea level. Access to the city is by BR-158, in the north-south axis, the BR-377 to the east, and also by the RS-342 on the west.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cruz Alta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.