Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Alegrete is a 
Alegrete was settled in 1816 and became a municipality in 1857. It is the hometown of the abolitionist leader Franklin Gomes Souto, of the politician, diplomat and statesman Osvaldo Aranha, first President of the
Alegrete (Google Maps)Alegrete (Official Website)
Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul Capitals of former nations 1816 establishments in Brazil {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub
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 ...
in 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 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 ...
of the State and of Southern Brazil). Its inhabitants are called ''Alegretenses''.
Alegrete was settled in 1816 and became a municipality in 1857. It is the hometown of the abolitionist leader Franklin Gomes Souto, of the politician, diplomat and statesman Osvaldo Aranha, first President of the United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; french: link=no, Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. Curr ...
, and of the Brazilian poet Mário Quintana. Every September 20 ( Ragamuffin War 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, a fully protected conservation unit created in 1982 to preserve an area of the pampas biome.
References
External links
Alegrete (Google Maps)
Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul Capitals of former nations 1816 establishments in Brazil {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub