Jaguarão
| Município de Jaguarão "Cidade Heróica"
Jaguarão
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 Border Brazil - Uruguay near Jaguarão / Río Branco
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 34 ′ S , 53 ° 23 ′ W | ||
 Location of the municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul
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| founding | July 6, 1832 (as Vila de Jaguarão ); November 23, 1855 (as Cidade de Jaguarão ) |
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Rio Grande do Sul | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-RS | ||
| Região intermediária | Pelotas (since 2017) | ||
| Região imediata | Pelotas (since 2017) | ||
| height | 26 m | ||
| Waters | Rio Jaguarão | ||
| climate | subtropical, Cfa | ||
| surface | 2051 km² | ||
| Residents | 27,931 (2010) | ||
| density | 13.6 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 26,869 (July 1, 2018) | ||
| Parish code | IBGE : 4311007 | ||
| Post Code | 96300-000 to 96309-999 | ||
| Time zone | UTC −3 | ||
| Website | www.jaguarao.rs.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese) | ||
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| City Prefect | Favio Telis (2017-2020) | ||
| Political party | Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (MDB) | ||
| economy | |||
| GDP | 600,751 thousand R $ 21,220 R $ per person (2015) |
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| HDI | 0.764 (2010) | ||
 Bridge over the Rio Jaguarão
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Jaguarão , officially Portuguese Município de Jaguarão , is a city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil .
Geography and location
Jaguarão is located in the south of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, directly on the border between Brazil and Uruguay, opposite the Uruguayan city of Río Branco on the Rio Jaguarão / Río Yaguarón . The international bridge Puente Internacional Barón de Mauá connects the two cities and the BR-116 (Brazil) and Ruta 18 (Uruguay) highways that end there . The entire municipal area of Jaguarão, which is around 350 km from Porto Alegre , covers an area of around 2,051 km².
history
Jaguarão was founded as Vila in 1832 and received city rights as Cidade in 1855.
politics
Mayor (Prefeito) has been José Claudio Ferreira Martins from PT since 2004 . In the local elections on October 7th and 28th (2nd ballot) 2012 he was re-elected with 54.82% of the votes cast in the first ballot.
The next local elections in Brazil took place in 2016. With 47.26% of the valid votes for the term of office 2017 to 2020, Flavio Telis of today's Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (MDB) prevailed as city prefect.
- Previous mayor
- Vitor Hugo Marques Rosa (2000)
- Henrique Edmar Knorr Filho (2004)
Residents
After continuous population growth since the 1970s, the city last had 31,293 inhabitants in 2004 according to official figures. In the STAND in 2010, however, the population was only 27,931.
| year | Residents |
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| 1970 | 22,451 |
| 1980 | 23,272 |
| 1991 | 27,755 |
| 2000 | 30.093 |
| 2001 | 30,376 |
| 2002 | 30,585 |
| 2003 | 30,813 |
| 2004 | 31,293 |
| 2010 | 27,931 |
| 2018 | 26,869 |
Sources up to and including 2004 and 2018 estimate
sons and daughters of the town
- José Barbosa Gonçalves (1860–1940), politician
- Hugo Lindemann (1867–1949), German university professor and social democratic politician
- Oswaldo Cordeiro de Farias (1901–1981), marshal and politician
- Aldyr Schlee (1934–2018), writer, journalist, translator and draftsman
Web links
- Prefeitura Municipal de Jaguarão website (Brazilian Portuguese)
- City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Jaguarão online (Brazilian Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b IBGE : Jaguarão - Panorama. Retrieved October 4, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ IBGE : Jaguarão - História. Retrieved October 4, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ a b Prefeito Eleito - Jaguarão / RS ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at www.portalmunicipal.org.br, accessed on March 6, 2014
- ↑ Dados Gerais - Jaguarão / RS ( Memento of April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at www.portalmunicipal.org.br, accessed on March 6, 2014
- ↑ cf. pt: Eleições municipais no Brasil em 2012
- ↑ UOL Eleições 2012 Eli
- ↑ Dr. Favio Telis 15 (Prefeito). In: com.br. Eleições 2016, accessed October 4, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ a b Demografia - População Total - Jaguarão ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at www.portalmunicipal.org.br, accessed on March 6, 2014
- ↑ IBGE : Estimativas da população residente no Brasil e unidades da federação com data de referência em 1 ° de julho de 2018. (PDF; 2.6 MB) In: ibge.gov.br. 2018, Retrieved October 4, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).