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Horizontina

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.

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Settlement.name: Horizontina
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_caption: The College of Cristo Rey
Settlement.image_flag: Bandeira_de_Horizontina.png
Settlement.image_seal: Horizontinarsbrason.png
Settlement.image_map: Locator map of Horizontina in Rio Grande do Sul.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Horizontina in Rio Grande do Sul
Settlement.pushpin_map: Brazil
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type: 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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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.