Guaritas
Red rock formations.
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Caçapava do Sul is one of the oldest municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul, with about 33,000 people at 440 metres near the Camaquã River, in the Campanha region of wide grasslands and rocky uplands; it was the second capital of the Piratini Republic in 1839–1840 during the Ragamuffin War. The Charrua people lived here until the eighteenth century; a military camp was then set up on the site of one of their villages, named «Paragem de Cassapava» in 1777, and the town grew around it. Today it lives from mining, farming and cattle, producing about 80% of the state's limestone, and its Camaquã mines were for years Brazil's largest copper producer. Visitors come for the upland scenery, the red rock formations of the Guaritas area and its wide open fields.
Red rock formations.
Wide and open.
Piratini Republic.
Caçapava do Sul, Campanha region, Rio Grande do Sul state
It was its second capital, 1839–1840.