São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul explained

São Gabriel
Settlement Type:	Municipality
Pushpin Map:	Brazil
Pushpin Mapsize:	250
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in Brazil
Coordinates:	-30.3358°N -54.32°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Brazil
Subdivision Type1:	State
Subdivision Name1:	Rio Grande do Sul
Subdivision Type2:	Mesoregion
Subdivision Type3:	Microregion
Leader Title:	Mayor
Established Title:	Founded
Total Type:	Total
Population As Of:	2020 ^[1]
Population Total:	62,147
Population Density Km2:	auto
Timezone:	BRT
Utc Offset:	-3

São Gabriel is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Notable people

• Sepe Tiaraju (-1756), Indigenous chief and military leader, killed in São Gabriel at the hands of Portuguese and Spanish colonial soldiers.^[2]
• Baron of Candiota (c. 1815–1894), landowner and military officer
• Hermes da Fonseca (1855–1923), 8th president of Brazil
• Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil (1857–1938), politician
• José Plácido de Castro (1873–1908), revolutionary and military leader in the Acre War
• Mascarenhas de Morais (1883–1968), commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in World War II

Paleontology

In the vicinity of the city of São Gabriel fossils of ancient amphibians and reptiles whose ages range from the Permian to the Triassic have been found .^{[3] [4]}

Three vertebrate-bearing geological formations and localities are as follows:

1. Irati Formation (Passo São Borja). Age: Early Permian.
2. Rio do Rasto Formation (Posto Queimado). Age: Late Permian and/or Early Triassic.
3. Sanga do Cabral Formation (Abandoned railroad between Dilermando de Aguiar and São Gabriel). Age: Late Triassic.

See also

• List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul

Notes and References

1. https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/rs/sao-gabriel/panorama IBGE 2020
2. Web site: Google Translate.
3. 10.1016/j.gr.2008.07.002 . First record of stereospondyls (Tetrapoda, Temnospondyli) in the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil . 2009 . Dias-Da-Silva . Sérgio . Dias . Eliseu Vieira . Schultz . Cesar Leandro . Gondwana Research . 15 . 1 . 131–136 . 2009GondR..15..131D .
4. http://www.geologica-acta.com/MostrarAbstractAC.do?abstract=gav0104a04 Mesosaurs