Southeast (Rio Grande do Sul)

The Southeast is a region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the South of Brazil.

São Gonçalo Canal, near Pelotas

• 🌍 Arroio Grande —
• 🌍 Chuí — at the border with Uruguay. It's right across the street from its sister town of Chuy
• 🌍 Jaguarão — has a splendid collection of more than 800 buildings that preserve various architectural styles
• 🌍 Pelotas — known as the National Capital of Sweets, it has many European-style buildings
• 🌍 Rio Grande — the state's first settlement and first capital, today one of the most important maritime ports in Brazil
• 🌍 São José do Norte — an old settlement bathed to the south by the Lagoa dos Patos estuary, to the west by Lagoa dos Patos and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean
• 🌍 São Lourenço do Sul — one of the most beautiful cities on the Costa Doce, it has hotels, inns, cabins and campsites for vacationers who come from different parts of Brazil

Our Lady of the Assumption church with a section of the Dom Pedro II Citadel wall in the foreground in Caçapava do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul.

• 🌍 Dom Pedro II Citadel in Caçapava do Sul (Forte de Dom Pedro II de Caçapava), Rua Dom Pedro II, Caçapava do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul (A small 20-minute detour south of the BR-290/BR-392 junction if you're driving from Porto Alegre to Uruguaiana or from Santa Maria to Pelotas.). A large, hexagonal 19th century citadel with projecting pentagonal bastions that sits in the middle of the city. Constructed 1848–1856.