Rio Grande do Sul
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Rio Grande do Sul is a state in the southern region of Brazil. It is the fifth-most populous state and the ninth-largest by area and it is divided into 497 municipalities. Located in the southernmost
Pico do Monte Negro is the highest mountain in the state.
Araucaria forest in São Francisco de Paula
Pampas deer
Yacumã Falls in the Turvo State Park are the second widest in the world.
Gaucho
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A gaucho or gaúcho is a skilled horseman, reputed to be brave and unruly. The figure of the gaucho is a folk symbol mainly in Argentina and Uruguay but also in Paraguay, southern Brazil, southern Boli
Rio Grande do Sul
…the Brazilian national average. The state has 5.4% of the Brazilian population and it is responsible for 6.6% of the Brazilian GDP. The state shares a gaucho culture with its neighbors Argentina and Uruguay. Before the arrival of Portuguese and Spanish settlers, it was inhabited mostly by the Guarani and…
Gaucho from Argentina, photographed in Peru, 1868
Monument to the Gaucho, Montevideo, Uruguay
The earliest depiction of a Uruguayan gaucho (Emeric Essex Vidal, Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, 1820)
Spanish official Félix de Azara, by Goya