Antônio Prado (pt-BR pronunciationⓘ) is a municipality located in the Serra Gaúcha regionin The city is in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Neither the Jesuit missionaries, who founded Vacaria dos Pinhais, nor Father Francisco Ximenes, who surveyed the region in 1633, nor Raposo Tavares' expedition in 1863, reached the area.

The farmers from Campos da Vacaria, who penetrated the surrounding forest in the 19th century to occupy land for farming and cattle ranching, did not venture beyond the present-day municipal boundary.

This nucleus had no name, so the lawyer Manoel Barata Góes, the chief engineer of the Lot Measurement Commission, suggested and requested that the new colony be named Antônio Prado, in honor of Antônio da Silva Prado, a São Paulo farmer who, as Minister of Agriculture at the time, promoted the arrival of Italian immigrants to Brazil and established colonial nuclei in Rio Grande do Sul.

[7] The city's name is a tribute to the São Paulo farmer Antônio da Silva Prado, who established colonial settlements in Rio Grande do Sul and promoted the immigration of Italians to the country when he was the Minister of Agriculture.

The natural beauties are also present in that destination, attracting an increasing number of visitors and practisers of adventure sports; who find perfect places for their practice there.

Other properties in the rural areas of Antônio Prado have similarly withstood the test of time and hold significant historical and architectural value as symbols of Italian colonization in southern Brazil.