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Rio Grande do Sul
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Santa Maria

Santa Maria is a city in the state of , in southern . Known as the geographic heart of the state, the city is the gateway to Paleorrota, the state's paleontological tourism route.
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  • Type: City with 272,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Educational Museum Gama D’Eça and Theatro Treze de Maio.

Museum
Photo: Tetraktys, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Theater building
Photo: Tetraktys, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theater building.

Church
Photo: Imagens SM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The or the Basilica of Santa Maria is a Catholic church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, located in Santa Maria municipality, Rio Grande do Sul, in the south of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sede and Divina Providência.

Suburb
is a district of the municipality of Santa Maria, in the state of . It is situated in the north portion of Santa Maria. is one of its .

Suburb
is a in the in the municipality of Santa Maria, in the state of . It is located in north Santa Maria.

Suburb
is a in the in the municipality of Santa Maria, in the state of . It is located in central Santa Maria.

Santa Maria

Latitude
-29.6861° or 29° 41′ 10″ south
Longitude
-53.8069° or 53° 48′ 25″ west
Population
272,000
Elevation
146 metres (479 feet)
IATA airport code
RIA
Open location code
5828857V+H6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415523736
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3450083
Wiki­data ID
Q740833
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Santa Maria” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانتا ماريا، ريو غراندي دو سول”
  • Asturian: “Santa Maria”
  • Basque: “Santa Maria”
  • Belarusian: “Санта-Марыя (Рыу-Гранды-ду-Сул)”
  • Belarusian: “Санта-Марыя”
  • Bengali: “সান্তা মারিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “সান্টা মারিয়া”
  • Breton: “Santa Maria”
  • Catalan: “Santa Maria”
  • Cebuano: “Santa Maria”
  • Chinese: “Santa Maria”
  • Chinese: “圣玛丽亚”
  • Chinese: “聖瑪麗亞，南里奧格蘭德州”
  • Chinese: “聖瑪麗亞”
  • Danish: “Santa Maria”
  • Dutch: “Santa Maria”
  • Esperanto: “Santa Maria”
  • Estonian: “Santa Maria”
  • Finnish: “Santa Maria”
  • French: “Santa Maria”
  • Galician: “Santa Maria, Río Grande do Sur”
  • Galician: “Santa Maria”
  • German: “Santa Maria”
  • Gothic: “𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Σάντα Μαρία”
  • Guarani: “Santa Maria”
  • Gujarati: “સાંતા મારિયા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Santa Maria”
  • Hebrew: “סנטה מריה”
  • Hindi: “सैंटा मारिया”
  • Hungarian: “Santa Maria”
  • Ido: “Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Ido: “Santa Maria”
  • Indonesian: “Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Indonesian: “Santa Maria”
  • Irish: “Santa Maria”
  • Italian: “Santa Maria”
  • Japanese: “サンタマリア (リオグランデ・ド・スル州)”
  • Japanese: “サンタマリア”
  • Kannada: “ಸಂತ ಮರಿಯಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Santa-Marïya”
  • Kazakh: “Санта-Мария”
  • Kazakh: “سانتا-مارىييا”
  • Korean: “산타마리아”
  • Latvian: “Santamaria”
  • Lithuanian: “Santa Marija”
  • Malagasy: “Santa Maria”
  • Malay: “Santa Maria”
  • Marathi: “सांता मरिया”
  • Marathi: “सांता मारिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Santa Maria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Santa Maria”
  • Norwegian: “Santa Maria”
  • Ossetian: “Сантæ-Мариа (Риу-Гранди-ду-Сул)”
  • Ossetian: “Сантæ-Мариа”
  • Persian: “سانتا ماریا (برزیل)”
  • Persian: “سانتا ماریا”
  • Polish: “Santa Maria”
  • Portuguese: “Capital dos Blindados”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Universitária”
  • Portuguese: “Coração do Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Maria da Boca do Monte”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Maria-RS”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Maria”
  • Portuguese: “SM”
  • Romanian: “Santa Maria”
  • Russian: “Санта-Мария”
  • Serbian: “Santa Maria”
  • Serbian: “Santa Marija”
  • Serbian: “Санта Марија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Maria”
  • Sinhala: “සැන්ටා මරියා”
  • Slovenian: “Santa Maria”
  • Spanish: “Santa Maria da Boca do Monte”
  • Spanish: “Santa Maria”
  • Spanish: “Santa María”
  • Swedish: “Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Swedish: “Santa Maria”
  • Tamil: “சாண்டா மாறிய”
  • Tatar: “Санта-Мария”
  • Telugu: “శాంటా మేరియా”
  • Thai: “ซานตามาเรีย”
  • Turkish: “Santa Maria”
  • Ukrainian: “Санта-Марія”
  • Urdu: “سنتا ماریہ”
  • Venetian: “Santa Maria”
  • Vietnamese: “Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Vietnamese: “Santa Maria”
  • Volapük: “Santa Maria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santa Maria”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖瑪麗亞”
  • “Santa Maria”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Santa Maria”. Photo: Arlei antunes, CC BY-SA 4.0.