Santa Maria

A university city in the geographical centre of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, Santa Maria has a walkable centre with a dense café and restaurant scene and a concentration of historic churches. Founded officially in 1876, the city grew around a site first established in 1797 as a Portuguese-Spanish boundary commission camp, and the surrounding region contains significant palaeontological sites. The 2013 Kiss nightclub fire, in which 242 people died, remains part of the city's recent history.

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• Population283,677
• Nearest water from center 0.2 km0.1 mi
• Nearest mountain from center 7.2 km4.5 mi