Alegrete is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul located in southern Brazil. Its medium altitude is 102m (335ft). Its estimated population in 2020 was 73,028 inhabitants and the total area is 7,803.967km2 (3,013.129sqmi) (the largest municipality of the State and of Southern Brazil). Its inhabitants are called Alegretenses.
Railroad depot in Alegrete, 1911
This article is about the town in Rio Grande do Sul. For other uses, see Alegrete (disambiguation).
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, 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.
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]
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