Crissiumal is a municipality in the state of

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

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, with a population of 13,357 inhabitants (2020 -

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). It has a fluvial border with

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along the Uruguay River. In sports, Crissiumal is known as "the land of goalkeepers", because it was the home of several goalkeepers, the best of them being Taffarel, who played in the Brazilian soccer team in the

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, in

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. The economy of Crissiumal is based on small rural properties. Crissiumal is one of the largest Brazilian milk producers, with a daily production of about of milk. The municipality would be partially flooded by the proposed

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Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub

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