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43 unusual facts about Rio Grande do Sul


Associação Garibaldi de Esportes

Associação Garibaldi de Esportes, commonly known as Garibaldi, is a Brazilian football club based in Garibaldi, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Caturrita Formation

From the town of Taquari they follow for 250 kilometers a thin band in the central part of the state in an east-westerly fashion right up to Mata.

Clube Esportivo Bento Gonçalves

Clube Esportivo Bento Gonçalves, usually known as Esportivo de Bento Gonçalves or simply as Esportivo is a Brazilian football club from Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Clube Esportivo Lajeadense

Clube Esportivo Lajeadense, commonly known as Lajeadense, is a Brazilian football club from Lajeado, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Douglas Rinaldi

Born in Erval Seco, Rio Grande do Sul, Rinaldi was signed on a six-month loan deal by Watford in the January 2007 transfer window from Brazilian club Veranópolis.

Esporte Clube Nacional

Esporte Clube Nacional, commonly known as Nacional, is a Brazilian football club based in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Fabiane Niclotti

On 15 April 2004, she was elected Miss Brasil, representing Rio Grande do Sul, a state with a tradition of many Miss Brazil winners.

Fábio Trinidade da Silveira

Fabio Trinidade da Silveira (born 26 May 1977 in Pantano Grande, Rio Grande do Sul), commonly known as Fabinho, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward.

Flávio Murtosa

Flávio Teixeira (born 14 January 1951 in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul), known as Flávio Murtosa or simply Murtosa, is an Brazilian former footballer and now a manager.

Garruchos

Garruchos, Rio Grande do Sul, a municipality in the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brasil

Gerley Ferreira de Souza

Despite of being born in Minas Gerais state, Gerley started his professional career with Caxias of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Guaibasaurus

Guaibasaurus was originally named on the basis of the holotype, MCN PV2355, a well-preserved partial postcranial skeleton and the paratype, MCN PV2356, an articulated and nearly complete left hindlimb, which were discovered in the "Sesmaria do Pinhal 2" locality near Candelária, Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil, in the geopark of Paleorrota.

The specific name is named after Candelária, a city near the fossil locality in which the holotype was found.

Guilherme Finkler

Guilherme Finkler is from the south of Brazil Rio Grande do Sul which translates as "Great Southern River", specifically the Caxius do Sul, an area settled by Italian immigrants.

Irton Marx

He is known for organizing a movement to separate the southern most state of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, to form a new country called "Republic of Pampas".

Júlio Prates de Castilhos

Júlio Prates de Castilhos (Cruz Alta, 29 June 1860 — Porto Alegre, 24 October 1903) was a Brazilian journalist and politician.

Junior Viçosa

The match played at the Olympic Stadium ended 2-1 in Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul facing the team, and the tie-breaking goal scored by Jonas.

Juventus Atlético Clube

Juventus Atlético Clube, commonly known as Juventus, is a Brazilian football club based in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Leonardo Gaciba

Born in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Gaciba refereed his first match in 1993 between Guarany Futebol Clube and Grêmio Atlético Farroupilha.

Lori Sandri

Lori Paulo Sandri (born 29 January 1949 in Encantado) is a Brazilian football manager who was last active as the Manager of Portuguese club Marítimo.

Lucas Leiva

The following year was a successful year for him, as Grêmio won the Rio Grande do Sul state championship (the Campeonato Gaúcho) for the first time since 2001, and also came third in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.

Luís Fernando Gaúcho

Luís Fernando Gaúcho was discovered playing in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul by the director of América Futebol Clube (SP).

Luís Inácio Adams

Adams earned his LL.B from the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, the capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, and later pursued a LLM from the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, the capital of the State of Santa Catarina.

Luiz Carlos Prates

He graduated in psychology in the '70s at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul.

Born in Santiago do Brasil on January 26, 1943, he lived for seven years on a nearby ranch before moving to Santa Maria, where he spent his adolescence.

Marcia Barbosa

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, did her high school at Colégio Marechal Rondon in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, undergraduate and graduate studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Mário Costa Barberena

He was lecturer at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) in 1974.

He graduated in Natural History at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul) in 1956 to 1959.

Nelson Jobim

Jobim was born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, the son of Hélvio Jobim and Namy Azevedo Jobim, and the grandson of former governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Walter Só Jobim.

Oreco

Valdemar Rodrigues Martíns, best known as Oreco, (born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, June 13, 1932 – April 3, 1985 in Ituverava, São Paulo) was an association footballer who was on the winning team of the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Pinhal

Pinhal, Rio Grande do Sul, a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Porcine Circovirus Associated Disease

These measures have recently been expanded upon by Dr. David Barcellos, a professor at the Veterinary College in the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Protographium asius

It is found in the Neotropical ecozone S.E. Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay)

Protorosaurus

In Geopark of Paleorrota, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 3 vertebrae and some bones of the animal were found.

Rafael dos Santos Lacerda

Born in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Lacerda began his career with local Ulbra, and continued to appear in his native state until 2008, representing Brasil de Farroupilha and Sapucaiense.

Samaropsis

In Brazil, the fossil species S. gigas, S. kurtzii, S. millaniana, S. rigbyi and S. seixasi, have been recovered from the city of Mariana Pimentel, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Seganfredo

Being a linguistically Italian surname in its present form, the members of this family are mostly concentrated on the north of Italy, particularly on the province of Vicenza (Veneto), as well as many having immigrated from Europe to the south of Brazil, especially to the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul

The other rival of Caxias is Esportivo of Bento Gonçalves.

South American Women's Sevens

Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Sport Club Guarany

Sport Club Guarany, also known as Guarany, is a Brazilian football club based in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul state.

State football leagues in Brazil

Some examples are Fla-Flu, in Rio de Janeiro, Corinthians-Palmeiras in São Paulo, Atlético-Cruzeiro in Minas Gerais, Naútico-Sport in Pernambuco, Gre–Nal in Rio Grande do Sul, Atle-Tiba, in Paraná etc.

Tche music

Tchê music or chê music is a variation of the traditional music style from the most southern state of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul.

Thiago Corrêa

Thiago da Rosa Corrêa, known as Thiago, Thiago Gaúcho or Thiago Corrêa, (born April 7, 1982) is a Brazilian footballer, who plays for São Luiz.


2009 flu pandemic in Brazil

9 more deaths were of confirmed in that day, 2 of them in São Paulo, 6 in Rio Grande do Sul and the first in Rio de Janeiro.

On July 3, more 19 cases were confirmed: 7 of them in São Paulo, 6 in Minas Gerais, 2 in Rio de Janeiro, 2 in Rio Grande do Sul, 1 in Paraná and the first in Mato Grosso do Sul.

On June 28, 36 more new cases were confirmed by the Minister of Health: 14 of them in São Paulo, 6 in Rio de Janeiro, 5 in Rio Grande do Sul, 5 in Distrito Federal, 3 in Pernambuco, 2 in Goiás and 1 in Tocantins.

Arroio das Caneleiras

The Arroio das Caneleiras is a watercourse which drains in the municipality of Pelotas, a town in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Associação Esportiva e Recreativa Santo Ângelo

Associação Esportiva e Recreativa Santo Ângelo, commonly known as Santo Ângelo, is a Brazilian football club based in Santo Ângelo, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Associação Nova Prata de Esportes Cultura e Lazer

Associação Nova Prata de Esportes Cultura e Lazer, commonly known as Associação Nova Prata, or just as Nova Prata, is a Brazilian football club based in Nova Prata, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Augusto Pestana

One hundred years later, Augusto Pestana, then director for Public Lands in Northwest Rio Grande do Sul, founded a settlement on the Cadeado Range, between the Conceição and the Ijuizinho rivers (the name "Cadeado", padlock in Portuguese, is a reference to a checkpoint that existed on the road between Cruz Alta and Santo Ângelo).

Battle of Jaguarão

The Battle of Jaguarão was fought in the town of Jaguarão in the then province of Rio Grande do Sul, on 27 January 1865, between the Imperial Brazilian Army and a Uruguayan militia during the Uruguayan War.

Canoas Futebol Clube

Canoas Futebol Clube, also known simply as Canoas is a football team of Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Carlos María de Alvear

Carlos María de Alvear (October 25, 1789 in Santo Ángel, Rio Grande do Sul – November 3, 1852 in New York, United States) was an Argentine soldier and statesman, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in 1815.

He was born Santo Ángel in the northern part of the Viceroyalty of the River Plate (now in Rio Grande do Sul) to a Spanish nobleman father, Diego de Alvear y Ponce de León, and a criollo mother, María Balbastro and baptised Carlos Antonio del Santo Ángel Guardián.

Cerâmica Atlético Clube

Cerâmica Atlético Clube, usually known as simply as Cerâmica, is a Brazilian football club from Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul state, founded by the workers of the Ceramic of Gravataí.

Clube 15 de Novembro

Clube 15 de Novembro, or 15 de Novembro (also known as 15 de Campo Bom) as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Campo Bom in Rio Grande do Sul, founded on November 15, 1911.

Crioulo Lageano

It is similar to the Franqueira breed (just 500 individuals, eight to ten farmers in Rio Grande do Sul), with the same origin, which coming from Franca, São Paulo, spread through the Brazilian territory.

Esporte Clube Avenida

Esporte Clube Avenida, commonly known as Avenida, is a Brazilian football club based in Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Esporte Clube Guarani

Esporte Clube Guarani is a Brazilian football club based in Venâncio Aires, Rio Grande do Sul, known as Guarani–VA.

Esporte Clube Milan

Esporte Clube Milan, commonly known as Milan, is a Brazilian football club based in Júlio de Castilhos, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Esporte Clube Pelotas

Esporte Clube Pelotas, usually known simply as Pelotas, is a Brazilian football club in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul.

Grêmio Esportivo Brasil

Grêmio Esportivo Brasil, also known as Brasil de Pelotas, is a Brazilian football team in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul.

Grêmio Esportivo Glória

Grêmio Esportivo Glória, also known as Glória, is a Brazilian football club based in Vacaria, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Grêmio Esportivo Sapucaiense

Grêmio Esportivo Sapucaiense is a Brazilian football club from Sapucaia do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, founded on July 28, 1941.

Grêmio Foot-Ball Santanense

Grêmio Foot-Ball Santanense, commonly known as Grêmio Santanense, is a Brazilian football club based in Santana do Livramento, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Morpho thamyris

The Thamyris Morpho, Morpho thamyris, is a Neotropical butterfly found in Paraguay and Brazil (Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul).

Nova Bréscia

Nova Bréscia is a municipality in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, settled by Italian immigrants from Brescia.

Nova Roma do Sul

Nova Roma do Sul (a Portuguese name meaning New Rome of the South) is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Olívio Dutra

Olívio de Oliveira Dutra (born 10 June 1941 in Bossoroca, Rio Grande do Sul) is a Brazilian politician.

Praia da Varzinha

Praia da Varzinha is a sandy beach located on the north shore of a lake called Lagoa dos Patos in the municipality of Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Socialism and Freedom Party

Among the party leaders are Heloísa Helena (Alagoas), federal deputies Luciana Genro (Rio Grande do Sul) and Babá (Pará), and a number of well-known Brazilian left-wing leaders and intellectuals, such as Milton Temer, Michel Löwy, Vladimir Safatle, Marcelo Freixo, Chico Alencar, Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, Renato Roseno, Carlos Nelson Coutinho, Ricardo Antunes, Francisco de Oliveira, João Machado, Pedro Ruas and others.

Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul

Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul, also known as Caxias, is a Brazilian football club based in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul.

Sociedade Esportiva Recreativa e Cultural Brasil

Sociedade Esportiva Recreativa e Cultural Brasil, also known as Brasil de Farroupilha, are a Brazilian football team from Farroupilha, Rio Grande do Sul.

Três Passos Atlético Clube

Três Passos Atlético Clube, commonly known as Três Passos, is a Brazilian football club based in Três Passos, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Tupy Futebol Clube

Tupy Futebol Clube, commonly known as Tupy, is a Brazilian football club based in Crissiumal, Rio Grande do Sul state.

União Frederiquense de Futebol

União Frederiquense de Futebol, commonly known as União Frederiquense, is a Brazilian football club based in Frederico Westphalen, Rio Grande do Sul state.

Veranópolis Esporte Clube Recreativo e Cultural

Veranópolis Esporte Clube Recreativo e Cultural, usually known simply as Veranópolis is a Brazilian football club from Veranópolis, Rio Grande do Sul.

Yellow-legged Tinamou

noctivagus, the nominate race, occurs in southeastern Brazil: Minas Gerais (Doce River area), southern Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul.