title: São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul
text: # São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul
  
  São Gabriel is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Sepe Tiaraju (-1756), Indigenous chief and military leader, killed in São Gabriel at the hands of Portuguese and Spanish colonial soldiers.
  * Baron of Candiota (c. 1815–1894), landowner and military officer
  * Hermes da Fonseca (1855-1923), 8th president of Brazil
  * Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil (1857-1938), politician
  * José Plácido de Castro (1873–1908), revolutionary and military leader in the Acre War
  * Mascarenhas de Morais (1883-1968), commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in World War II
  
  ## Paleontology
  
  In the vicinity of the city of São Gabriel fossils of ancient amphibians and reptiles whose ages range from the Permian to the Triassic have been found .
  
  Three vertebrate-bearing geological formations and localities are as follows:
  
  * Irati Formation (Passo São Borja). Age: Early Permian.
  * Rio do Rasto Formation (Posto Queimado). Age: Late Permian and/or Early Triassic.
  * Sanga do Cabral Formation (Abandoned railroad between Dilermando de Aguiar and São Gabriel). Age: Late Triassic.
  