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State:	Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...
Meso-region:	Northwestern Rio Grande do Sul (Noroeste Rio-Grandense)
Micro-Region:	Santo Ângelo Santo Ângelo (micro-region) The Santo Ângelo micro-region is a micro-region in the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil...
Founded:	October 12, 1965
Location Location (geography) The terms location and place in geography are used to identify a point or an area on the Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term 'location' generally implies a higher degree of can certainty than "place" which often has an ambiguous boundary relying more on human/social attributes of place identity... :	28.51/28° 30' 39" S lat. 39.327/39° 13' 40" W long.
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Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...  (2006): - Total - Change - Density	12,496 7.3/km²
Elevation Elevation The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface .... :	213 m
Postal code:	97870-xxx

Santo Antônio das Missões (first part, Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 meaning "Saint Anthony", last part meaning mission

Mission (station)

A religious mission or mission station is a location for missionary work.While primarily a Christian term, the concept of the religious "mission" is also used prominently by the Church of Scientology and their Scientology Missions International....

) is a town in the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. Its coordinates are 6.867/6° 52' 8" S and the longitude is 42.35933/42° 21' 36" W. It has 2,060 inhabitants and the area is 32.596 km². Its density is 61.48/km² (2006). Distance from the state capital of Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...

 is 534 km west and tens of kilometres east from the Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 border but the municipality does not border since it is close.

Bounding municipalities

• São Nicolau
  São Nicolau, Rio Grande do Sul
  São Nicolau is a municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its area is 485.3 km² and its population was 6,146 in 2003...
  
  
• São Luiz Gonzaga
  São Luiz Gonzaga
  São Luiz Gonzaga is a municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is located 503 km west of the state capital of Porto Alegre, northeast of Alegrete....
  
  
• Bossoroca
  Bossoroca
  Bossoroca is a municipality of the [western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The origin of the name comes from the Tupi words iby meaning earth and soroc which combines to mean erosion...
  
  
• Itacurubi
  Itacurubi
  Itacurubi is a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its area is 1,120.8 km² and its population was 3,571 in 2003. Its elevation is at 169 m. The origin of the name comes from the Tupi language...
  
  
• São Borja
  São Borja
  São Borja is a city in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. São Borja is the oldest municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and was founded in 1682 by the Jesuits as the first of the Seven Points of the Missions, and named São Francisco de Borja, in honor of Saint Francis...
  
  
• Garruchos
  Garruchos, Rio Grande do Sul
  Garruchos is a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its area is 799.849 km² and its population was 2,996 in 2003. Its elevation is at 69 m by the Uruguay River...
  
  

Other

Santo Antônio das Missões has a school or a collegiate, churches and a few squares and parks.

External links

• Granizo gigante de 20 de outubro de 2007
• http://www.citybrazil.com.br/rs/stoantoniomissoes/
• Map and Aerial photos:
  • Coordinates: 28°30′59"S 55°13′40"W
  • Street maps: Street map from Mapquest, MapPoint or Google
  • Satellite images and Aerial photos: Google