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Santa Maria

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Santa Maria

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Basilica Shrine of Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces

    The Basilica Shrine of Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces or the Basilica of Santa Maria is a Catholic church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, located in Santa Maria municipality, Rio Grande do Sul, in the south of Brazil. It is the only basilica in the world dedicated to Mary the Mediatrix of all Graces.

    1.8 km · church in Santa Maria, Brazil · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Museum Vincente Pallotti

    The Museum Vicente Pallotti is located on Avenida Presidente Vargas, 115 in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is located in the same complex Palotina College.

    2.8 km · paleontology, natural history museum in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Paleontological Site Jazigo Cinco

    Paleontological Site Jazigo Cinco is located in the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. And belongs to Santa Maria Formation.

    4 km · Paleontological site in Santa Maria, Brazil · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sanga da Alemoa

    The Sanga da Alemoa paleontological site is located in the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. It belongs to the Caturrita Formation and the Santa Maria Formation.

    3.9 km · paleontological site in Santa Maria · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Santa Maria

Airports
Porto Alegre-Salgado Filho (POA), 257 km
  • Porto Alegre → Santa Maria
    251 km · quickest by road, 5h 25m · R$80–105
  • Foz do Iguaçu → Santa Maria
    466 km · quickest by road, 11h 56m · R$160–210
  • Florianópolis → Santa Maria
    563 km · quickest by road, 12h 1m · R$200–265
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Santa Maria

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Santa Maria. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou could also charter a flight but it is much less expensive to board a connecting flight through Phoenix.
  • Get in}} Air Charter or air taxi is another alternative, where you can catch flights from any large or small airport.
  • Get inPrices start around $150 for a seat on flights that might already be going to your destination, or go from $1,000 to $10,000 or more for a custom-chartered flight where you hire the aircraft to fly you directly to your destination, any time you want to go.
  • Get inOn-demand flights may also be chartered .

From Wikivoyage: Santa Maria (California), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Ilha GrandeBR

    10 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,203 km
  2. 02
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,619 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,663 km
  4. 04
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,203 km
  5. 05
    ChiloéCL

    11 ways of moving, 16 sources

    2,306 km

If you know how people move in Santa Maria – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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