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Camargo is amunicipality in thestate ofRio Grande do Sul,Brazil.
The population in 2020 was 2,742, in a land area of 138.1 square kilometres (53.3 sq mi).[1]
The early European migrants here arrived in the region aroundMarau from theAntônio Prado region, but theirearlier European origins were inItaly. The area was one ofPlainplains interspersed with low hills and bordering a river, was at the time inhabited byCaboclo people. The river was called the Camargo, and that is the name that was adopted for the European settlement.
By the early twentieth century, the Italian immigrants had imported the customs and habits of their ancestral homes, and the settlement was being laid out and organized along traditional Italian lines.
28°35′13″S52°12′07″W / 28.58694°S 52.20194°W /-28.58694; -52.20194
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