Administrative divisions of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul

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This is a list of the administrative divisions of the municipality of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.

Contents 1 Districts 1.1 Sede: Administrative Regions 1.1.1 R.A. Center 1.1.2 R.A. Center-East 1.1.3 R.A. Center-West 1.1.4 R.A. East 1.1.5 R.A. North 1.1.6 R.A. North-East 1.1.7 R.A. South 1.1.8 R.A. West 2 External links

[edit] Districts

The municipality is divided into 10 districts (Portuguese: distritos):

#	District	Distance from Sede	Population †
1st	Sede (English: "(Municipal) Seat")	0 km	229,031 (94.02%)
2nd	São Valentim	12 km	494 (0.20%)
3rd	Pains	15 km	3,559 (1.46%)
4th	Arroio Grande	18 km	2,701 (1.11%)
5th	Arroio do Só	36 km	1,127 (0.46%)
6th	Passo do Verde	23 km	498 (0.20%)
7th	Boca do Monte	16 km	4,085 (1.68%)
8th	Palma	18 km	856 (0.35%)
9th	Santa Flora	36 km	1,263 (0.52%)
10th	Santo Antão	11 km	‡
TOTAL POPULATION			243,611 (100.00%)
† Data from 2000. ‡ Santo Antão was created after 2000, from a north-eastern portion of the 7th district of Boca do Monte.

Apart from the 1st District, all the others are administered by submayors (subprefeitos), each of them elected by the districts' respective inhabitants.

[edit] Sede: Administrative Regions

The 1st District, Sede, contains the urban perimeter of Santa Maria, i.e. the city itself. For its greater complexity when compared to the other ones, the Seat District is further subdivided into 8 administrative regions (regiões administrativas) and 41 neighbourhoods (bairros).

Following is a list of the Seat District's bairros organized per administrative region, hereinafter called RAs (from Portuguese: região administrativa).

[edit] R.A. Center

• Centro ("City centre" or "Downtown")
• Bonfim
• Nonoai
• Nossa Senhora de Fátima
• Nossa Senhora de Lourdes
• Nossa Senhora Medianeira
• Nossa Senhora do Rosário

[edit] R.A. Center-East

• João Luiz Pozzobon
• Cerrito
• Pé-de-Plátano
• São José

[edit] R.A. Center-West

• Duque de Caxias
• Noal
• Passo D'Areia
• Patronato
• Uglione

[edit] R.A. East

• Camobi

[edit] R.A. North

• Carolina
• Caturrita
• Chácara das Flores
• Divina Providência
• Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro
• Salgado Filho

[edit] R.A. North-East

• Campestre do Menino Deus
• Itararé
• km 3
• Menino Jesus
• Nossa Senhora das Dores
• Presidente João Goulart

[edit] R.A. South

• Lorenzi
• Dom Antônio Reis
• Tomazetti
• Urlândia

[edit] R.A. West

• Agro-Industrial
• Boi Morto
• Juscelino Kubistchek
• Pinheiro Machado
• Renascença
• Nova Santa Marta
• São João
• Tancredo Neves

[edit] External links

• Political Map of Santa Maria (.pdf)
• (Portuguese) The City's Official Website