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SANTA MARIA (DA BoccA DO MONTE)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 189 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SANTA MARIA (DA BoccA DO MONTE) , an inland town of Brazil, in Rio Grande do Sul, 162 m. by rail W. of Margem do Taquary, the railway terminus for
Porto
  Alegre (1908), about 8o m. by water N.W. of that city. Pop. (rgoo) 13,628. Santa Maria, which lies 382 ft. above the sea, is the commercial centre of a
rich
 
district
  on the slopes of short
mountain
  ranges, one of which, the Serra do Pinhal, forms the water parting between the eastern and western river systems of the state. : There are prosperous colonies in its vicinity, including one founded by the Jewish Colonisation Association under the provisions of the Hirsch Fund. The
industries
  of this region include the cultivation of wheat, Indian corn,
rice
 , mandioca, beans, grapes (for wine), nuts, olives and tobacco, and stock-raising. The town derives its
chief
  importance, however, from its becoming the junction of the
Porto
  Alegre to
Uruguayana
 , and the Santa Maria to Passo Fundo railways. In 1905 the national and state governments leased to the " Compagnie Auxiliaire de Chemin de Fer au Bresil" the Rio Grande to Bage, the Porto Alegre to
Uruguayana
 , the Santa Maria to Passo Fundo, and the Porto Alegre to Nova Hamburgo railways, with their branches and connexions, and it was decided to establish the general administration offices for the whole
system
  at Santa Maria. The shops and offices of the Porto Alegre to Uruguayana line had been removed to that place in 1902.


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