1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Caxias do Sul—479,599, America/Sao_Paulo, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: human settlement in Brazil.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Caxias do Sul is GeoNames ID 3466537. Its recorded administrative path is Caxias Do Sul → Rio Grande do Sul → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Caxias do Sul occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-07-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Caxias do Sul ranks 1,196 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 48; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 198. Its 479,599 population value is 0.63 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.59 times the 816,326 regional median. Caxias do Sul sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. Caxias do Sul's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Caxias do Sul's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Porto Alegre at 96.283 km with 1,488,252 recorded people; Florianópolis at 311.017 km with 508,826 recorded people; Joinville at 392.594 km with 664,500 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 296.311 km. Compared with Porto Alegre, Caxias do Sul's recorded population is 0.32 times as large. Against Caxias do Sul, Porto Alegre follows Porto Alegre → Rio Grande do Sul → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Caxias do Sul's. Against Caxias do Sul, Florianópolis follows Florianopolis → Santa Catarina → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Caxias do Sul's. Against Caxias do Sul, Joinville follows Joinville → Santa Catarina → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Caxias do Sul's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 681 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Caxias do Sul's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3466537, the coordinate pair 29.1681 / 51.1794, country rank 48 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3452925 at 96.283 km bind Caxias do Sul to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Caxias do Sul's reference point is 29.1681° south and 51.1794° west. The IANA identifier America/Sao_Paulo is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Caxias do Sul's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Caxias do Sul's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Caxias do Sul's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Caxias do Sul, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Caxias do Sul's closest other entries in this atlas are Porto Alegre (96.283 km), Florianópolis (311.017 km), Joinville (392.594 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.