Arroio do Sal is a municipality in the 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...

, 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...

. It is about 30 km south of Torres and 30 km north of Capão da Canoa

Capão da Canoa

Capão da Canoa is a municipality in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. With miles of beaches, Capão da Canoa is a popular beach resort for residents of nearby Porto Alegre.-See also:*List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul...

, thus in about the northern half of the state's shoreline. It is 175 km from 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...

, with which it is connected via BR 101 and BR 290.

Though the population is only about 7,000, during the summer tourism season the number of people increases to about 90,000. It includes 27 km of the Atlantic coast, and has about 60 beaches.