Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Official Name: | Municipality of Campina das Missões |
Motto: | 09-10 Campina das Missões 1963 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Brazil |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | South |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | Rio Grande do Sul |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Ademir Renato Nedel (PMDB) |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1902 |
Established Title3: | Incorporated |
Established Date3: | 1963 |
Area Total Km2: | 227.91 |
Population As Of: | 2020 [1] |
Population Total: | 5,398 |
Population Density Km2: | 28.6 |
Timezone: | BRT |
Utc Offset: | -3 |
Coordinates: | -27.9889°N -54.8389°W |
Elevation M: | 163 |
Campina das Missões is a Brazilian municipality of the state of the Rio Grande do Sul, located at latitude 27º59'20" S and longitude 54º50'22" W, being at an altitude of 163 meters. Its population estimate in 2020 was 5,398 inhabitants.
Like many towns in the state which were first settled by German-speaking Europeans, the German language is still present in daily family and community life, if not as much in the public sphere since World War II; the regional German dialect is called Riograndenser Hunsrückisch, as it is a Brazilian variant of the dialect spoken in the Hunsrück region of southwest Germany. In 2012 the state chamber of deputies voted unanimously in favor of recognizing this Germanic dialect an official historical culture good to be preserved.