San Antonio da Patrulha

Santo Antônio da Patrulha grew beside a route used by drovers carrying livestock from southern Brazil towards Curitiba and São Paulo. A Portuguese guard post recorded travellers and collected duties on the herds. Settlement gathered around the post during the eighteenth century, and Santo Antônio became a parish in the 1760s. Its name preserves the memory of the patrol that watched this important route between the southern plains and the highlands.