Santo Ângelo is a municipality located in northwestern

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state,

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. It has about 77,568 inhabitants (according to 2020

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estimate) and the total area of the municipality is about 679 km². It borders

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to the north, and Entre-Ijuís to the south—it's linked to Santo Ângelo by the state road RS 344. The city is located 443 km (275 mi) from the state capital,

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. The local agriculture-economy produces and deals soy, corn, wheat, swine, sheep and cattle. Tourism in the city is primarily associated with the city's

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history and the Jesuit Reductions in the nearby city

São Miguel das Missões São Miguel das Missões is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil. Important 17th century Spanish Jesuit mission ruins are located in the municipality. San Miguel Mission is within Santo Ângelo Microregion, and the Riogrand ...

. The Angelopolitan Cathedral in downtown Santo Ângelo is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santo Ângelo. The city is served by Sepé Tiaraju Airport and is home to four institutions of higher education, Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões (URI), Faculdade CNEC Santo Ângelo, Faculdade Santo Ângelo (FASA) and Instituto Federal Farroupilha (IFFar).

History

Santo Ângelo was founded on August 12, 1706 by the Belgium

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Diego de Haze. The original name of Santo Ângelo was "Santo Ángel Custodio" (in Spanish) and then "Santo Ângelo Custódio." The Reduction of Santo Ângelo was dedicated to "Anjo Custódio das Missões", the guard and protector of the missionaries or Jesuits. The Angelopolitana Cathedral in Santo Ângelo,

, was built in the 1920s on the same spot as the Santo Ângelo reduction built by

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s and the Guarani in the 18th century—the Cathedral is modeled after the ancient

mission also known as São Miguel Arcanjo.

Climate

Santo Ângelo has

Humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between latitudes 25° and 40° ...

(

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

: ''Cfa''), The highest temperature was 40°C on 20 December 2011.

Snow Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout ...

are rare.

Frost Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor in an above-freezing atmosphere coming in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing, and resulting in a phase change from water vapor (a gas) ...

are common on winter.

Regional minority languages

Riograndenser Hunsrückisch German Hunsrik (natively and Portuguese ''Hunsrik'' or ''Hunsrückisch''), also called ''Riograndenser Hunsrückisch'' or ''Katharinensisch'', is a Moselle Franconian language derived primarily from the Hunsrückisch dialect of West Central German. T ...

(Germanic origin) * Mbyá Guaraní language (autochthonous)''Língua Guarani M'bya'', Diversidade Linguística, Patrimônio Imaterial, Patrimônio Cultural, Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN)
Accessed website: February 28th, 2018.

Notable people

* Carlos María de Alvear (1789-1852), soldier and statesman *

José Goldemberg José Goldemberg (born in Santo Ângelo, May 27, 1928) is a Brazilian physicist, university educator, scientific leader and research scientist. He is a leading expert on energy and environment issues. Goldemberg earned his Ph.D. in physical scien ...

(born 1928), physicist * Luiz Henrique Santos (born 1987), footballer

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Santo Angelo Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul Populated places established in 1706 1706 establishments in Brazil