Mariana Pimentel belongs to
Porto Alegre Metropolitan Mesoregion and to
Porto Alegre Microregion. The municipality can be accessed through
RS-711, which is connected to
BR-116. The
outcrop Morro do Papaléo within Mariana Pimentel was the discovery site of two species of the extinct algae
Brazilea, dating back to the
Sakmarian of the
Permian. ==See also==