Uruguaiana
| Município de Uruguaiana Uruguaiana |
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| Coordinates | 29 ° 46 ′ S , 57 ° 2 ′ W | ||
 Location of the municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul
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| founding | 6th April 1874 (age 146) | ||
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Rio Grande do Sul | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-RS | ||
| structure | 5 districts (since 1997) | ||
| Waters | Uruguay River | ||
| climate | tropical, Cfa | ||
| surface | 5,702.1 km² | ||
| Residents | 125,435 (2010) | ||
| density | 22 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 126,970 (July 1, 2019) | ||
| Parish code | IBGE : 4322400 | ||
| Post Code | 97500-000 | ||
| Telephone code | (+55) 55 | ||
| Time zone | UTC −3 | ||
| Website | uruguaiana.rs (Brazilian Portuguese) | ||
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| City Prefect | Ronnie Peterson Colpo Mello (2017-2020) | ||
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| Patron saint | Saint Anna | ||
| City festival | February 24th | ||
| economy | |||
| GDP | 2,662,241 thousand R $ 20,523 R $ per capita (2016) |
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| HDI | 0.744 (high) (2010) | ||
Uruguaiana , officially Portuguese Município de Uruguaiana , is a city and political municipality in the far west of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul . It lies on the Rio Uruguai , which marks the state border with Argentina . The Argentine city of Paso de los Libres is connected by the Puente Internacional Agustín P. Justo - Getúlio Vargas . The distance to the capital Porto Alegre is 649 km.
The population was estimated on July 1, 2019 at 126,970 inhabitants, who live in a large community area of around 5702.1 km² and are called Uruguaians. 93% of them are concentrated in the urban area. The area would be comparable to 2.5 times that of the Saarland, the population density is 22 people per km². It ranks 14th out of 497 municipalities in the state.
geography
Surrounding communities are Alegrete , Barra do Quaraí , Itaqui , Quaraí , Artigas in Uruguay, Paso de los Libres and Yapeyú in Argentina.
The city has a tropical temperate climate, Cfa according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification . The average temperature is 20.0 ° C. The average rainfall is 11240 mm per year.
history
It is the only city that was founded by the Farrapen of the Farrapen Revolution in the province of São Pedro do Rio Grande do Sul , which at the time consisted of only 14 municipalities. In 1840 what was then the village was destroyed by a flood, but was rebuilt in 1843. This year is also noted in the city arms. The place played an important role in the Triple Alliance War , the siege of Uruguaiana of 1865 has gone down in history.
On April 24, 1847, a meeting of local councils took place for the first time. On April 6, 1874, the place was given the status of a self-governing cidade by provincial law No. 898. Since 1997 it has been divided into the five districts of Uruguaiana, João Arregui, Plano Alto, São Marcos and Vertentes.
religion
energy
Since 1987 there has been an HVDC close coupling in Uruguaina with a transmission capacity of 53.9 megawatts for exchanging energy with Uruguay. This system operated with a DC voltage of 17.9 kV was built by Toshiba.
sons and daughters of the town
- Eurico Lara (1897-1935), football player
- Vasco Prado (1914–1998), sculptor
- Francisco Aramburu (1922–1997), football player
- Antonio Cachapuz de Medeiros (1952–2016), lawyer, 2016 judge at the International Tribunal for the Sea
- Federico Gino (* 1993), Uruguayan football player
Web links
- City Prefecture Citizens Portal, Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- IBGE : Uruguaiana - Panorama. Retrieved November 4, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). Updated statistics.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Uruguaiana climate: Average temperature, Uruguaiana weather averages. In: de.climate-data.org. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Uruguaiana - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed October 18, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ Ronnie Mello 11 (Prefeito). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed October 18, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).