Alegrete
City of Alegrete | |
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 Fountain at the lake of Neytha Ramos Park | |
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| HDI' (2000) | 0.793 – medium[2] |
| Website | alegrete.rs.gov.br |
Alegrete is a
State
and of Southern Brazil). Its inhabitants are called Alegretenses.
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Alegrete was settled in 1816 and became a municipality in 1857. It is the hometown of the abolitionist leader
Osvaldo Aranha, first President of the United Nations General Assembly, 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 costumes and riding their horses
with trappings.
Alegrete is served by Gaudêncio Machado Ramos Airport.
The municipality contains part of the 351 hectares (870 acres) Ibirapuitã Biological Reserve, a fully protected conservation unit created in 1982 to preserve an area of the pampas biome.[3]
References
- ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ^ "Reserva Biológica de Ibirapuitã", Portal Uruguaiana (in Portuguese), archived from the original on 2016-08-09, retrieved 2016-04-26
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