Marau
Marau is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It was initially populated by Italian immigrants that were escaping from the war. The city name is based on the brave native chief "cacique Marau" which fought against the white people to keep the land.- Type: Town with 45,100 residents
- Description: municipality of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
- Neighbors: Passo Fundo
Marau
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Rio Grande do Sul, South, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-28.4493° or 28° 26′ 58″ southLongitude
-52.2002° or 52° 12′ 1″ westPopulation
45,100Elevation
520 metres (1,706 feet)Open location code
5839HQ2X+7WOpenStreetMap ID
node 415523925OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6323507Wikidata ID
Q1784401
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Marau” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Marau”
- Basque: “Marau”
- Bishnupriya: “মারাউ”
- Catalan: “Marau”
- Cebuano: “Marau”
- Chechen: “Марау”
- Chinese: “Marau”
- Chinese: “马劳”
- Dutch: “Marau”
- Esperanto: “Marau”
- French: “Marau”
- German: “Marau”
- Hungarian: “Marau”
- Irish: “Marau”
- Italian: “Marau”
- Japanese: “マラウ”
- Kazakh: “Maraw”
- Kazakh: “Марау”
- Kazakh: “ماراۋ”
- Malagasy: “Marau”
- Mazanderani: “ماراو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Marau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marau”
- Norwegian: “Marau”
- Polish: “Marau”
- Portuguese: “Marau”
- Romanian: “Marau”
- Russian: “Марау”
- Spanish: “Marau”
- Swedish: “Marau”
- Tatar: “Марау”
- Turkish: “Marau”
- Vietnamese: “Marau”
- Volapük: “Marau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Marau”
- Welsh: “Marau”
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