São Sebastião do Caí is a city near to 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...

 in 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...

. It has a population of about 25,000 inhabitants. The principal university is the University of Caxias do Sul, often abbreviated to UCS. Through the middle of the city runs the river São Sebastião do Caí, the source of which is in the mountains of São Francisco de Paula and it empties into the Guaíba Lake.