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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:	March 20, 1992
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... :	28.1836/28° 11' 1" S lat. 54.638/54° 38' 20" 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... :	799.849 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...  (2003): - Total - Change - Density	3,996 - 5/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 .... :	69 m
Postal code:	97685-xxx
Distance from the capital:	627 km west
Website:	www.garruchos.rs.gov.br
Politics
Mayor Mayor In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city.... :

Garruchos is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 of 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 area is 799.849 km² and its population was 2,996 in 2003. Its elevation is at 69 m by the Uruguay River. It is located 627 km west of 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...

, northeast of Alegrete

Alegrete

Alegrete is a town and a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul located in southern Brazil. Its medium altitude is 102 m. Its estimated population in 2008 was 78,984 inhabitants and the total area is 7,803.967 km² . Its inhabitants are called Alegretenses.Alegrete was settled in 1816 and became a...

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The town is situated by the Uruguay River

Uruguay River

The Uruguay River is a river in South America. It flows from north to south and makes boundary with Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of the Mesopotamia from the other two countries...

 in which forms a border with Argentina

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...

 to the west, a settlement named Garruchos is on the other side and has the same name.

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Garruchos has a school or a collegiate, churches and a few squares and parks.

It is one of the richest municipalities in Brazil, with a per capita income of R$72,000 (US$38,267).

External links

• http://www.citybrazil.com.br/rs/garruchos/
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  • Coordinates: 28°11′2"S 55°38′20"W
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  • Satellite images and Aerial photos: Google