Viamão
Sign in to saveViamão () is a city in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In size it is the largest municipality in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre and the seventh most populous in the state.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Viamão
- Settlement.official_name
- Municipality of Viamão
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.nickname
- First Capital site of Rio Grande do Sul (Primeira Capital do Rio Grande do Sul)
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Viamão-igreja-da-conceição1.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Parish Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeira-viamão.gif
- Settlement.image_seal
- Brasao Viamao.jpg
- Settlement.image_map
- RioGrandedoSul Municip Viamao.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in 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
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Demonym
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Demonym
- viamense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Population
- 169176
- Area
- 1494.263
- Elevation
- 106
- Shares border with
- Santo Antônio da Patrulha
- Official website
- www.viamao.rs.gov.br
- Image
- Viamão-igreja-da-conceição1.jpg
- Dialing code
- 51
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- Human Development Index
- 0.808
- Commons category
- Viamão
- topic's main category
- Category:Viamão
- inception
- 1741-01-01
- electorate
- 160081
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Recent mayors
- Places of interest
- See also
- References
Viamão () is a city in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In size it is the largest municipality in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre and the seventh most populous in the state.
The origin of the name Viamão is controversial. The more common explanation is that atop the hills of the region it is possible to see the Guaíba River and its five inlets: Jacuí, Caí, Gravataí, Taquari and Rio dos Sinos, which form an open hand. This is said to have lent the city its name -from the phrase "Vi a mão," meaning, "I saw the hand."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viamão” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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