Sede, district of Santa Maria


Sede is a district of the municipality of Santa Maria, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is situated in the north portion of Santa Maria. Downtown Santa Maria is one of its bairros.
The district of Sede owns an area of 133.71 km² that is equivalent to 7.46% of the municipality of Santa Maria that is 1791,65 km².

History

The district was created with the denomination of Santa Maria da Boca do Monte, by provincial law number 6 of 1837, November 17, thus, the district still belonged to the municipality of Cachoeira do Sul. After, as Seat of the municipality of Santa Maria, the district gave origin, for separation, to many another districts, and, some of them became municipalities like Itaara.
The district of Sede contains the Downtown Santa Maria.
In 1982, the district had its first official division in bairros, in 1986 are made small changes. However, it was created detached bairros before 1982, like is the case of Bairro Roberto Holtermann that was created in 1961, and nowadays is part of the Nossa Senhora de Fátima neighbourhood with the name of Vila Holtermann.
The bairros - neighbourhoods - of Sede created in 1986 endured up to 2006, when the city hall and the city council created the actual bairros of the district, and:

Limits

The district limits with the districts of Arroio Grande, Boca do Monte, Pains, Palma, Santo Antão and São Valentim, and with the municipality of Itaara.

Neighbourhoods

The district of Sede is divided in the following bairros, that in English is equivalent to neighbourhoods:
  1. Agroindustrial
  2. Boi Morto
  3. Bonfim
  4. Camobi
  5. Campestre do Menino Deus
  6. Carolina
  7. Caturrita
  8. Centro
  9. Cerrito
  10. Chácara das Flores
  11. Divina Providência
  12. Dom Antônio Reis
  13. Duque de Caxias
  14. Itararé
  15. Diácono João Luiz Pozzobon
  16. Juscelino Kubitschek
  17. Km 3
  18. Lorenzi
  19. Menino Jesus
  20. Noal
  21. Nonoai
  22. Nossa Senhora das Dores
  23. Nossa Senhora de Fátima
  24. Nossa Senhora de Lourdes
  25. Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro
  26. Nossa Senhora do Rosário
  27. Nossa Senhora Medianeira
  28. Nova Santa Marta
  29. Passo d'Areia
  30. Patronato
  31. Pé de Plátano
  32. Pinheiro Machado
  33. Presidente João Goulart
  34. Renascença
  35. Salgado Filho
  36. São João
  37. São José
  38. Tancredo Neves
  39. Tomazetti
  40. Uglione
  41. Urlândia

Roads and railway