Maçambará is a small

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

ian

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the western part of 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 ...

. The population is 4,562 (2020 est.) in an area of 1,682.82 km². Its elevation is 110 m. It is located west of the state capital of

Porto Alegre Porto Alegre (, , Brazilian ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of 1,488,252 inhabitants (2020) makes it the List of largest cities in Brazil, twelfth most populous city in the country ...

and northeast of

Alegrete Alegrete is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul located in southern Brazil. Its medium altitude is . Its estimated population in 2020 was 73,028 inhabitants and the total area is (the largest municipality of the State and of Southern Brazil). It ...

. The municipality contains part of the

São Donato Biological Reserve São Donato Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica do São Donato) is a wetlands biological reserve established by the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. History The biological reserve was created by decree in 1975 to support conservation ...

, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1975 that protects an area of wetlands on the Butuí River, a tributary of the

Uruguay River The Uruguay River ( es, Río Uruguay, ; pt, Rio Uruguai, ) is a major river in South America. It flows from north to south and forms parts of the boundaries of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of La M ...

Neighbouring municipalities

Itaqui Itaqui is a municipality in Brazil, located in the southwestern part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, close to the Argentinian border, between Uruguaiana and São Borja. It sits at a mean altitude of 57 meters (187 ft), by the Uruguay Riv ...

São Borja São Borja is a city in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. São Borja is the oldest municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and was founded in 1682 by the Jesuits as the first of the Seven Points of the Missions, and named ...

Unistalda Unistalda is a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 2,321 (2020 est.) in an area of 602.39 km². Its elevation is 361 m. It is located west of the state capital of Porto Alegre Porto ...

São Francisco de Assis São Francisco de Assis, Portuguese for Saint Francis of Assisi, may refer to: * São Francisco de Assis, Rio Grande do Sul, municipality in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * São Francisco de Assis do Piauí, municipality in the State of Pi ...

References

External links

*http://www.citybrazil.com.br/rs/macambara/ Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub