Horizontina
Sign in to saveHorizontina () is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil, with 19,389 inhabitants in 2020. It is located 496 km north of the state capital. The first settlers were German, Italian and Polish immigrants who arrived in the region in 1927. Nowadays, most of the inhabitants are of German-Brazilian descent.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Horizontina
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_caption
- The College of Cristo Rey
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- Bandeira_de_Horizontina.png
- Settlement.image_seal
- Horizontinarsbrason.png
- Settlement.image_map
- Locator map of Horizontina in Rio Grande do Sul.svg
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- Location of Horizontina in Rio Grande do Sul
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- Brazil
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- Location in Brazil
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Jones Jehn da Cunha
- Settlement.leader_title2
- Vice-Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name2
- Zuleika Wener Savik
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- horizontinense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Population
- 17023
- Area
- 232.476
- Elevation
- 343
- Shares border with
- Tucunduva
- Official website
- www.horizontina.rs.gov.br
- Image
- Pôr do sol em Horizontina.jpg
- Dialing code
- 55
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- Commons category
- Horizontina
- Human Development Index
- 0.783
- electorate
- 14450
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Horizontina () is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil, with 19,389 inhabitants in 2020. It is located 496 km north of the state capital. The first settlers were German, Italian and Polish immigrants who arrived in the region in 1927. Nowadays, most of the inhabitants are of German-Brazilian descent.
The city has an average annual temperature of 20.8 °C. Horizontina's human development index is 0.783, considered high by the United Nations Development Programme, ranking 110th in Brazil, 11th in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and 1st in its micro-region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Horizontina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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