Rio Grande

Rio Grande (Great River), a city of 198 thousand,¹ is located in the southeast corner of Rio Grande do Sul (Southern Grande River) state, near the mouth of the Lagoa dos Patos,² South Region, Brasil (Brazil). The city is an important grain port.³

External references

Overview of Rio Grande (Grande River) city, Rio Grande do Sul (Southern Grande River) state, South Region, Brasil (Brazil)

Footnotes

1. 2011 per the side banner of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande,_Rio_Grande_do_Sul, accessed August 31, 2015.
2. Lagoa translates approximately as lagoon.
3. The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.