Caçapava do Sul
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- South
- State
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Meso region
- Sudeste Rio-Grandense
- Micro region
- Serras de Sudeste
- Founded
- 25 October 1831
- Mayor
- Giovani Amestoy da Silva ( PDT )
- Total
- 3,047.120 km (1,176.500 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 444 m (1,457 ft)
- Density
- 11.06/km (28.6/sq mi)
- Demonym
- caçapavano
- Time zone
- UTC−3 ( BRT )
- Area code
- (+55) 55
- Hdi 2010
- 0.704 – high
- Website
- cacapava .rs .gov .br
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- caçapavano
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Population
- 34618
- Area
- 3047.120
- Elevation
- 270
- Capital of
- Riograndense Republic
- Shares border with
- Pinheiro Machado
- Official website
- www.cacapava.rs.gov.br
- Image
- Guaritas Caçapava do Sul Brasil.jpg
- Dialing code
- 55
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- Commons category
- Caçapava do Sul
- Human Development Index
- 0.768
- different from
- Caçapava
- electorate
- 24602
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Encyclopedic overview
Caçapava do Sul is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, located on the banks of the Camaquã River. As of 2020, the city has an estimated population of 33,548. It was the 2nd capital of the Piratini Republic from 1839 to 1840.
The economy depends primarily on the mining industry. Caçapava do Sul produces 80% of the calcareous rock mined in Rio Grande do Sul. For many years it was Brazil's major producer of copper and is still an important center of copper mining.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caçapava do Sul” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.