Travesseiro

Travesseiro is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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Settlement.name: Travesseiro
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_flag: Travesseiro_bandeira.jpg
Settlement.image_seal: Travesseiro_brasão.jpg
Settlement.image_map: RioGrandedoSul Municip Travesseiro.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location within Rio Grande do Sul
Settlement.pushpin_map: Brazil
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 250
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Rio Grande do Sul
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Mesoregion
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Microregion
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.established_title: Founded
Settlement.total_type: Total
Settlement.population_as_of: 2022

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Wikidata facts

Demonym: travesseirense
Population: 2471
Area: 81.106
Elevation: 86
Official website: www.travesseiro.rs.gov.br
Dialing code: 51

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Commons category: Travesseiro (Rio Grande do Sul)
electorate: 1915
Human Development Index: 0.807

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Travesseiro is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

==History== Colonised by German and Italian immigrants, the municipality freed itself from Arroio do Meio in 1992, the result of an free movement born in the 1980s. The name is due to being it being a place of crossing the Jacaré stream, current Forqueta River, being a point of passage through the water.