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The city of Rio Grande was founded in 1737 by Brigadier General José da Silva Pais and his men to defend Portugal's territory. The Jesus Maria e José Fort was constructed, which was built on the site of the future city. The fort was transformed into a town when colonists from the Azores and Madeira arrived in the 1750s. In 1751, the growing ...
The Captaincy of Rio Grande was the second plot given to João de Barros and Aires da Cunha. They arrived in 1535 to occupy the land, accompanied by Fernão Álvares de Andrade. As both of their efforts were directed towards the first plot (the Captaincy of Maranhão ), due to the difficulties encountered there in 1535, the second plot remained ...
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Rio Grande do Sul has 94% of the country's wool production. [77] In pork, the 3 southern states are the largest producers in the country. Brazil had 41.1 million head in 2017. Rio Grande do Sul (14.6%) is the 3rd largest producer. [78] [79] Vineyards in Flores da Cunha Neugebauer's headquarters in Arroio do Meio.
Serras de Sudeste (English: Southeastern Mountain Ranges) is a dissected plateau, also named Planalto Dissecado de Sudeste (Southeastern Dissected Plateau) or Escudo Sul-Rio-Grandense (Shield of Rio Grande do Sul), located in the southeastern portion of Rio Grande do Sul state in southernmost Brazil, near Uruguay.
It covers 912,529 km², [2] nearly 10% of Brazil's territory. It is home to 26 million people [ 3 ] and over 2000 species of plants, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. The Caatinga is the only exclusively Brazilian biome , which means that a large part of its biological heritage cannot be found anywhere else on the planet.