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6 unusual facts about Santo Ângelo


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.

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.

His birthplace Santo Ángel was, at that time, part of Misiones Province, but currently belongs to the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

José Goldemberg

José Goldemberg (born in Santo Ângelo, May 27, 1928), a Brazilian physicist, university educator, scientific leader and research scientist, is a leading expert on energy end environment issues.

Santo Ângelo

The Angelopolitana Cathedral in downtown Santo Ângelo is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santo Ângelo.


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).


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Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul

The municipality is known to have given rise to a large number of other municipalities as Ijuí, Santa Maria, Passo Fundo, Santo Angelo and their initial territory led to more other, became known by the northwestern mother.