Turuçu
Turuçu is a Brazilian municipality in the southeastern part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is nicknamed the National Capital of the Chili Pepper.- Type: Village with 3,420 residents
- Description: municipality of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
- Also known as: “Brasão de Turuçu” and “Turucu”
- Neighbors: Pelotas and São Lourenço do Sul
Turuçu
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Turuçu, Rio Grande do Sul, South, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-31.41916° or 31° 25′ 9″ south
Longitude
-52.17652° or 52° 10′ 36″ west
Population
3,420
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
Open location code
48W9HRJF+89
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Turuçu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “توروكو”
- Asturian: “Turuçu”
- Basque: “Turuçu”
- Bishnupriya: “টুরুকু”
- Catalan: “Turuçu”
- Cebuano: “Turuçu”
- Chechen: “Турусу”
- Chinese: “图鲁苏”
- Dutch: “Turuçu”
- Esperanto: “Turuçu”
- French: “Turuçu”
- German: “Turuçu”
- Hungarian: “Turuçu”
- Irish: “Turuçu”
- Italian: “Turuçu”
- Kazakh: “Twrwsw”
- Kazakh: “Турусу”
- Kazakh: “تۋرۋسۋ”
- Malagasy: “Turuçu”
- Mazanderani: “توروچو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Turuçu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turuçu”
- Norwegian: “Turuçu”
- Polish: “Turuçu”
- Portuguese: “Turuçu”
- Romanian: “Turuçu”
- Russian: “Турусу”
- Spanish: “Turuçu”
- Swedish: “Turuçu”
- Tatar: “Турусу”
- Turkish: “Turuçu”
- Urdu: “تورو سو”
- Vietnamese: “Turuçu”
- Volapük: “Turuçu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Turuçu”
- Welsh: “Turuçu”
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Places to explore: Passo das Pedras and Colônia de Santana.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Ginásio Municipal and Prefeitura Municipal de Turuçu.
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