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Agudo is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil.

Agudo
Municipality
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Location within Rio Grande do Sul
Agudo Location in Brazil
Coordinates: 29°38′43″S 53°14′24″W
Country	Brazil
State	Rio Grande do Sul
Area
• Total	553.1 km2 (213.6 sq mi)
Elevation	83 m (272 ft)
Population  (2020 [1])
• Total	16,401
• Density	30/km2 (77/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)

Location

Agudo is 83 meters above sea level. The total area is 553,1 km² and the population was estimated at 16,401 in 2020.

The municipality contains part of the 1,848 hectares (4,570 acres) Quarta Colônia State Park, created in 2005.[2] The municipality contains part of the hydroelectric Dona Francisca Dam on the upper Jacuí River.[3]

History

Archeological evidence indicates that this area was settled by humankind as far back as 8,000 years ago.

The first Europeans to come into the area were Jesuit priests who in the 16th century began establishing the so-called Reductions or Missions as they also were named in the wider region (i.e. Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay).

At a later date with the expulsion of the Jesuit order by both the Spanish and Portuguese crowns from South America left the area inactive as far as European activities were concerned.

The local indigenous population suffered attacks by Paulistas from the north who, amongst other things, made it their business to capture Indians to be put up for sale in the slave markets of São Paulo, etc...

In 1857 a new wave of immigration started to affect the region, this time attracting Germanic settlers and subsequently peoples of other European origins. The German language is still spoken by some residents of the Municipality of Agudo and in areas around it.

In 2001 a fossil of a dinosaur was found in Agudos and after the analysis of its skeleton, it was reported to be a new species of ornithischian dinosaur, named sacisaur (Sacisaurus agudoensis) after the evidence that the skeleton missed the bones of one of its leg.

References

External links

• The Municipality of Agudo. Official website, accessed on April 25, 2006.

Genealogical research

• Colônia Santo Ângelo/Santo Angelo Settlement (Archived 2009-10-24). Site in English and Portuguese, accessed on April 25, 2006.
• Altmann Family. Site in English and in Portuguese, accessed on April 25, 2006.
• Projeto Imigração Alemã/German Immigration Project. Site in Portuguese, accessed on April 25, 2006.
• The Beskow Family in Santo Ângelo, in the Municipality of Agudo (Archived 2009-10-24). Site in English and Portuguese, accessed on April 25, 2006.

На других языках

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[de] Agudo

Agudo, amtlich portugiesisch Município de Agudo, ist eine Stadt im Bundesstaat Rio Grande do Sul im Süden Brasiliens. Sie liegt etwa 240 km westlich von Porto Alegre. Die Bevölkerungszahl wurde zum 1. Juli 2020 auf 16.401 Einwohner geschätzt, die auf einer Gemeindefläche von rund 534,6 km² leben und Agudenser (agudenses) genannt werden. Die Stadt steht an 115. Stelle der 497 Munizips des Bundesstaats.[2]

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- [en] Agudo, Rio Grande do Sul

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[es] Agudo (Río Grande del Sur)

Agudo es un municipio brasileño del estado de Rio Grande do Sul.

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[ru] Агуду

Агуду (порт. Agudo) — муниципалитет в Бразилии, входит в штат Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул. Составная часть мезорегиона Западно-центральная часть штата Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул. Входит в экономико-статистический микрорегион Рестинга-Сека. Население составляет 16 714 человека на 2007 год. Занимает площадь 536,117 км². Плотность населения — 33,6 чел./км².

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