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1894 Perron map RIO GRANDE, RIO GRANDE DO SUL STATE, BRAZIL (#99)

1894 Perron map RIO GRANDE, RIO GRANDE DO SUL STATE, BRAZIL (#99)

$ 11.61

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  • Publication Year: 1894
  • Topic: Maps
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Year: 1894
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Country/Region: Brazil

    Description

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    1894 Perron map RIO GRANDE, RIO GRANDE DO SUL STATE, BRAZIL (#99)
    Nice map titled
    Rio Grande do Sul et sa barre,
    from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring. Overall size approx. 20.5 x 16 cm, image size approx. 13 x 11 cm. From
    La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes
    , 19 vol. (1875-94), great work of Elisee Reclus. Cartographer is Charles Perron.
    Click here or image for larger version
    Rio Grande
    port city, southeastern Rio Grande do Sul estado (“state”), southern Brazil. The city lies along the Rio Grande (river), which is the outlet to the Atlantic of the Patos Lagoon. It is built on a low peninsula, barely 5 feet (1.5 m) above sea level and 8 miles (13 km) from the river's mouth. Where it enters the ocean, the river passes over a submerged bar that has been dredged so that oceangoing vessels can dock at Rio Grande or at Pelotas, 25 miles (40 km) northwest.
    In 1737 a Portuguese fort called Estreito was built nearby. In 1745 its garrison and settlement were moved to the present site, which became a town in 1751 with the name of Sao Pedro do Rio Grande do Sul; it received city status in 1835. It was the capital of a Brazilian captaincy until 1763, when it was temporarily occupied by Spanish forces from Buenos Aires.
    Rio Grande competes with Pelotas as the outlet for the products of Rio Grande do Sul state. The port's exports, mostly to other parts of Brazil, include xarque (jerked beef), hides, lard, wool, rice, wheat, feijao (beans), tobacco, and frozen fish and shrimp. In the city are meat-processing plants and vegetable canneries; wool, cotton, and jute textile mills; an oil terminal and a petroleum refinery; and other factories. Rio Grande is linked to Pelotas by railway and highway, and it has an airport. Pop. (1991 prelim.) 157,608.
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