Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil


🇧🇷 Alegrete is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul located in southern Brazil. Its medium altitude is 102 m (335 ft). Its estimated population in 2020 was 73,028 inhabitants and the total area is 7,803.967 km² (3,013.129 sq mi) (the largest municipality 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, and of the Brazilian poet Mário Quintana. Every 20 September (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.

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Alegrete has a population of over 73,028 people. Alegrete also forms one of the centres of the wider Campanha Ocidental District which has a population of over 357,196 people. It is also a part of the larger Sudoeste Rio-Grandense Region.

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Antipodal to Alegrete is: 124.217,29.783

Locations Near: Alegrete -55.7833,-29.7833

🇺🇾 Artigas -56.467,-30.467 d: 100.5  

🇧🇷 Santiago -54.867,-29.183 d: 111  

🇧🇷 Santana do Livramento -55.517,-30.867 d: 123.2  

🇺🇾 Rivera -55.55,-30.9 d: 126.2  

🇧🇷 São Borja -56,-28.65 d: 127.8  

🇦🇷 Santo Tomé -56.05,-28.55 d: 139.6  

🇧🇷 Uruguaiana -57.08,-29.772 d: 125.1  

🇧🇷 São Gabriel -54.317,-30.333 d: 153.8  

🇦🇷 Apóstoles -55.767,-27.917 d: 207.6  

🇧🇷 Cerro Largo -54.739,-28.144 d: 208.7  

Antipodal to: Alegrete 124.217,29.783

🇨🇳 Zhoushan 122.403,30.169 d: 19835.2  

🇨🇳 Yinzhou 121.547,29.817 d: 19757.5  

🇨🇳 Ningbo 121.542,29.875 d: 19756.9  

🇨🇳 Fenghua 121.417,29.65 d: 19744.3  

🇨🇳 Ninghai 121.419,29.287 d: 19738.9  

🇨🇳 Fengxian 121.567,30.883 d: 19732.9  

🇨🇳 Chenjia 121.8,31.483 d: 19716.4  

🇨🇳 Cixi 121.266,30.17 d: 19727.7  

🇨🇳 Jiaojiang 121.433,28.667 d: 19717.8  

🇨🇳 Xushan 121.233,30.167 d: 19724.6  

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