Alegrete is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

located in southern

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. Its medium altitude is . Its estimated population in 2020 was 73,028 inhabitants and the total area is (the largest

of the

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and of Southern Brazil). Its inhabitants are called ''Alegretenses''. Railroad depot in Alegrete, Brazil (1911)

Alegrete was settled in 1816 and became a municipality in 1857. It is the hometown of the abolitionist leader

Franklin Gomes Souto Franklin Gomes Souto (March 31, 1844 - September 26, 1917) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician and abolitionist from Alegrete, State of Rio Grande do Sul. Souto earned a degree from the Law School of São Paulo in 1865. Back to his hometown of A ...

, of the politician, diplomat and statesman

Osvaldo Aranha Oswaldo Euclides de Sousa Aranha (, 15 February 1894 – 27 January 1960) was a Brazilian politician, diplomat and statesman, who came to national prominence in 1930 under Getúlio Vargas. Considered a moderate by many in and outside of Brazil, ...

, first President of the

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, and of the Brazilian poet

Mário Quintana Mário de Miranda Quintana (July 30, 1906 – May 5, 1994) was a Brazilian writer and translator. He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection. The main themes of his poetr ...

. Every September 20 (

Ragamuffin War The Ragamuffin War (Portuguese: ''Guerra dos Farrapos'' or ''Revolução Farroupilha'') was a Republican uprising that began in southern Brazil, in the province (current state) of Rio Grande do Sul in 1835. The rebels were led by generals Bento ...

Day), about 8,000 young, adult and old horsemen and horsewomen parade through its streets, using their native

costume Costume is the distinctive style of dress or cosmetic of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch. In short costume is a cultural visual of the people. The term also was tradition ...

s and riding their

horse The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million y ...

s with trappings. Alegrete is served by Gaudêncio Machado Ramos Airport. The municipality contains part of the

Ibirapuitã Biological Reserve Ibirapuitã Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica de Ibirapuitã) is a state-operated biological reserve in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. History The reserve was created by decree Nº 31.788 of 27 June 1982. It has an area of ...

, a fully protected conservation unit created in 1982 to preserve an area of the

pampas The Pampas (from the qu, pampa, meaning "plain") are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazi ...

biome.

References

External links

Alegrete (Google Maps)Alegrete (Official Website)
Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul Capitals of former nations 1816 establishments in Brazil {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub