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Santa Maria
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Santa Maria is a municipality located in Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil. It serves as an important urban center in the region, contributing to the economic and cultural development of the state.
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Official website
Prefeitura Municipal de Santa Maria
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- Santa Maria
- Demonym
- santa-mariense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Contains
- Sede District
- Population
- 217592
- Area
- 1779.556
- Elevation
- 113
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Body of water
- Vacacaí River
- Shares border with
- São Gabriel
- Official website
- www.santamaria.rs.gov.br
- Image
- Vista de Santa Maria (RS).jpg
- Dialing code
- 55
- Significant event
- Kiss nightclub fire (2013)
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- twinned administrative body
- Dunkirk
- topic's main category
- Category:Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul
- Commons category
- Santa Maria (Rio Grande do Sul)
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Santa Maria
- native label
- Santa Maria
- postal code
- 97000-001 ... 97179-999
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul
- Human Development Index
- 0.784
- inception
- 1857-00-00
- social media followers
- 3433
- electorate
- 205712
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Santa María
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Encyclopedic overview
Santa Maria is a municipality (município) in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil. In 2025, its population was 282,395 inhabitants in a total area of 1,823 square kilometres (704 sq mi). Santa Maria is the 5th biggest municipality in the state, and the largest in its micro-region.
Santa Maria is often referred to as the "heart of Rio Grande" (from Portuguese: "Coração do Rio Grande"), because the city is located in the geographical center of the State.
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