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Coordinates: 28 ° 17 ′ S , 54 ° 15 ′ W Santo Ângelo on the map of Rio Grande do Sul
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| Country | Brazil | |
| State | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| City foundation | 1706 | |
| Residents | 79,603 | |
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| surface | 680.5 | |
| Population density | 117 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 98800-98807 | |
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Santo Ângelo (population: 79,603) is a city in Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil . Its area covers 680.5 km² .
geography
Santo Ângelo is located in the west of the Rio Grande plateau on the Río Ijuí at an altitude of 286 m. The distance to the provincial capital Porto Alegre is about 460 kilometers.
The neighboring communities are Giruá in the north , Entre-Ijuís and Vitória das Missões in the south, Catuípe in the east and Guarani das Missões in the west .
history
Santo Ângelo is located in the area of the "Siete Pueblos de las Misiones", the Eastern Missions founded by Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centuries . The city was founded in 1706 by the Belgian Jesuit Diogo Haze as a Jesuit reduction , it had up to 8000 inhabitants and was a cultural and economic center, but was destroyed in 1756 and repopulated in 1830.
At the end of the 19th century, many European immigrants settled in Santo Ângelo, including from Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and the Netherlands. Since the 1930s, the city experienced an economic and industrial boom and had a population of up to 115,000. After the decline of industry in the 1980s, which forced almost ten percent of the population to emigrate, the city has recovered since the 1990s. Since then it has also been a university center with around 6,000 students.
Regional and minority languages
- Riograndenser Hunsrückisch ( West Central German languages )
- Guaraní (language) ( Tupí-Guaraní languages )
See also
Town twinning
- Paraná , Argentina
Web links
- Santo Ângelo website (Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ethnologue: Languages of the World: Hunsrik + (ISO 639-3 hrx). Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ↑ Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN): Língua Guarani M'bya: Diversidade Linguística: Patrimônio Imaterial: Patrimônio Cultural. Retrieved February 28, 2018.