Pinhal Grande (

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meaning "large pine forest") is a municipality of the central part of the

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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 ...

, Brazil.

Location

The population is 4,329 (2020 est.) in an area of 477.13 km². Its elevation is 394 m. It is located 320 km 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 ...

, 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 ...

and east of

Santo Ângelo Santo Ângelo is a municipality located in northwestern Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. It has about 77,568 inhabitants (according to 2020 IBGE estimate) and the total area of the municipality is about 679 km². It borders Giruá to the no ...

. Pinhal Grande is located in the Planalto Médio, one of the

pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The World Flora Online created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accep ...

species found is the ''

Araucaria angustifolia ''Araucaria angustifolia'', the Paraná pine, Brazilian pine or candelabra tree (, or ), is a critically endangered species in the conifer genus '' Araucaria''. Although the common names in various languages refer to the species as a "pine", it d ...

''. The municipality is partly flooded by the reservoir of the

Dona Francisca Hydroelectric Plant The Dona Francisca Hydroelectric Plant ( pt, Usina Hidrelétrica Dona Francisca) is a hydroelectric plant on the Jacuí River in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, completed in 2001. It delivers 80 MW guaranteed power. History The Dona Franc ...

on the upper

Jacuí River The Jacuí River () is a river in Rio Grande do Sul state of southern Brazil. The Jacuí empties into the Guaíba River, an estuarine arm of the Lagoa dos Patos, a large coastal lagoon connected to the Atlantic Ocean. Sources The Jacuí River, ...

Bounding municipalities

Júlio de Castilhos Júlio de Castilhos is a municipality of the central part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 19,224 (2020 est.) in an area of 1,929.38 km². Its elevation is 529 m (Praça "João Vieira de Alvarenga"), 516 m at the m ...

Nova Palma Nova Palma is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The municipality contains part of the hydroelectric Dona Francisca Dam on the upper Jacuí River. See also *List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul References

M ...

Estrela Velha Estrela Velha is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It was raised to municipality status in 1995, the area being taken out of the municipality of Arroio do Tigre. The municipality is partly flooded by the reservoir of the Do ...

* Ibarama

History

The first inhabitants of the region were indigenous tribes. The Portuguese dominion explored and later claimed the lands until 1822 when Brazil gained independence. In 1813, the Curitibano João Gonçalves Padilha along with his brother initiated agricultural commerce between the region and

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. The area received immigration and integrated the 4ª Colônia de Imigração Italiana (4th Colony of Italian Immigration). As a result, it includes people of Italian, Portuguese and Spanish descent. The municipality Pinhal Grande was created under Law nº 9600 March 20, 1992.

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070930200804/http://www.citybrazil.com.br/rs/itacurubi/ Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub