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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: Southeastern Rio Grande do Sul
(Sudeste Rio-Grandense)
Micro-Region: Pelotas
Pelotas (micro-region)
The Pelotas Microregion is a micro-region in the southeastern part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The area is 10,306.601 km².- Municipalities:*Arroio do Padre*Canguçu*Capão do Leão*Cerrito*Cristal...

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...

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31.505 or 31° 25' 18" S lat.
52.1788 or 52° 10' 42" W long.
Area
Area
Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...

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254.933 km²
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...

 (2005):
- Total
- Change
- Density

3,889
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15.3/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 ....

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30 m
Postal code: -
Website: www.turucu.rs.gov.br


Turuçu is a small 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...

ian town in the southeastwern 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...

. It is nicknamed the National Capital of the Red Piment (Capital Nacional da Pimenta Vermelha). Its 2001 population was 3,889. The origin of the name comes from a Native South American language. The Camaquã River
Camaquã River
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 flows by the municipality and the Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...

lies to the southeast along with its bay.

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