Official website (http://www.riogrande.rs.gov.br/)
Rio Grande
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- South
- State
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Mayor
- Darlene Pereira ( PT )
- Total
- 2,709.53 km (1,046.16 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 6 m (20 ft)
- Estimate 2025
- 198,935
- Density
- 70.82/km (183.4/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC−3 ( BRT )
- Area code
- (+55) 53
- Hdi 2010
- 0.744 – high
- Website
- www .riogrande .rs .gov .br
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Demonym
- gaucho
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Population
- 172422
- Area
- 2817.48
- Elevation
- 12
- Body of water
- Lagoa dos Patos
- Shares border with
- Pelotas
- Official website
- www.riogrande.rs.gov.br
- Image
- Portico de Rio Grande (RS).jpg
- Dialing code
- 53
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- topic's main category
- Category:Rio Grande (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Commons category
- Rio Grande (Rio Grande do Sul)
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Rio Grande (Rio Grande do Sul)
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- Rio Grande (Rio Grande do Sul)
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- postal code
- 96500
- Human Development Index
- 0.744
- inception
- 1737-01-01
- electorate
- 154317
- P8168
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Encyclopedic overview
Rio Grande (lit. 'Great River') is a municipality (município) and one of the oldest cities in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It was the state capital from 1835 to 1845. It is the most important port city in the state and has one of the most important maritime ports in Brazil.
The city is named after a nearby channel which indirectly connects the Lagoa dos Patos, to the northeast, and Lagoa Mirim, to the west, with the Atlantic Ocean. The municipality is bordered by Santa Vitória do Palmar on the south and Pelotas on the north, which lies across the São Gonçalo Channel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rio Grande” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.