Capão do Leão
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| State: || Rio Grande do Sul
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| Meso-region: || Southeastern Rio Grande do Sul
(Sudoeste Rio-Grandense)
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| Micro-Region: || Pelotas
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| Founded: || May 8, 1982
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| Location
: || 31.7635 or 31° 45' 48" S lat.
52.845 or 52° 29' 2" W long.
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| Area
: || 874.716 km²
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| Population
(2005):
- Total
- Change
- Density ||
26,193
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33,78/km²
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| Elevation
: || 21 m
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| Postal code: || -
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| State: || Rio Grande do Sul
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| Meso-region: || Southeastern Rio Grande do Sul
(Sudoeste Rio-Grandense)
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| Micro-Region: || Pelotas
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| Founded: || May 8, 1982
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| Location
: || 31.7635 or 31° 45' 48" S lat.
52.845 or 52° 29' 2" W long.
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| Area
: || 874.716 km²
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| Population
(2005):
- Total
- Change
- Density ||
26,193
-
33,78/km²
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| Elevation
: || 21 m
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| Postal code: || -
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| State: || Rio Grande do Sul
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| Meso-region: || Southeastern Rio Grande do Sul
(Sudoeste Rio-Grandense)
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| Micro-Region: || Pelotas
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| Founded: || May 8, 1982
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| Location
: || 31.7635 or 31° 45' 48" S lat.
52.845 or 52° 29' 2" W long.
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| Area
: || 874.716 km²
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| Population
(2005):
- Total
- Change
- Density ||
26,193
-
33,78/km²
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| Elevation
: || 21 m
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| Postal code: || -
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Capão do Leão is a small Brazil
ian town in the southeastwern part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul
. Its population is around 19,000. Its second industry is agriculture which was primary until the 1970s, it currently has more urban population (80%) than rural (20%). Much of the area are made up of plains.
The city hosts the main campus of Universidade Federal de Pelotas
, the largest higher education institution in the southern portion of Rio Grande do Sul.
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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...
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| Meso-region: || Southeastern Rio Grande do Sul
(Sudoeste Rio-Grandense)
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| 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...
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| Founded: || May 8, 1982
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| 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...
: || 31.7635 or 31° 45' 48" S lat.
52.845 or 52° 29' 2" W long.
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| 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...
: || 874.716 km²
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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...
(2005):
- Total
- Change
- Density ||
26,193
-
33,78/km²
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| 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 ....
: || 21 m
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| Postal code: || -
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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...
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| Meso-region: || Southeastern Rio Grande do Sul
(Sudoeste Rio-Grandense)
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| 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...
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| Founded: || May 8, 1982
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| 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...
: || 31.7635 or 31° 45' 48" S lat.
52.845 or 52° 29' 2" W long.
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| 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...
: || 874.716 km²
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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...
(2005):
- Total
- Change
- Density ||
26,193
-
33,78/km²
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| 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 ....
: || 21 m
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| Postal code: || -
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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...
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| Meso-region: || Southeastern Rio Grande do Sul
(Sudoeste Rio-Grandense)
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| 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...
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| Founded: || May 8, 1982
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| 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...
: || 31.7635 or 31° 45' 48" S lat.
52.845 or 52° 29' 2" W long.
|---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 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...
: || 874.716 km²
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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...
(2005):
- Total
- Change
- Density ||
26,193
-
33,78/km²
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| 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 ....
: || 21 m
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| Postal code: || -
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Capão do Leão 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...
. Its population is around 19,000. Its second industry is agriculture which was primary until the 1970s, it currently has more urban population (80%) than rural (20%). Much of the area are made up of plains.
The city hosts the main campus of Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Universidade Federal de Pelotas
The Universidade Federal de Pelotas is a higher-learning facility with campuses in Pelotas and Capão do Leão in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.- Distinguished faculty members :...
, the largest higher education institution in the southern portion of Rio Grande do Sul.
Bounding municipalities
- PelotasPelotasPelotas is a Brazilian city and municipality , the third most populous in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Pelotas is located 270 km from Porto Alegre, the capital city of the state, and 130 km from the Uruguayan border...
- Rio GrandeRio Grande, Rio Grande do SulRio Grande is the oldest city in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and also the former state capital from 1835 to 1845...
- Morro Redondo
- CerritoCerritoClub Sportivo Cerrito, usually known simply as Cerrito, is an Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo. They currently play in the Primera División Uruguaya...
- Pedro Osório
- Arroio GrandeArroio GrandeArroio Grande is a small Brazilian town in the southeastwern part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population is around 19,000. Its second industry is agriculture which was primary until the 1970s, it currently has more urban population than rural...
External links
- Official website of the town hall
- http://www.citybrazil.com.br/rs/arroiogrande/
- Map and Aerial photos:
- Coordinates: 32°14′16"S 53°5′13"W
- Street maps: Street map from Mapquest, MapPoint or Google
- Satellite images and Aerial photos: Google