Brazil Slide Series: Collection Intro To Brazil, Slide No. 0076.

Creator

Herbert Knup
Jon M. Tolman

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Publication Date

3-2-2009

Description

Cattle raising still plays an important role in the relatively flat campos or grassland praries. The topology of much of western Santa Catarina and southern Rio Grande do Sul is characterized by relatively flat or grassland praries (similar to the pampas in neighboring Argentina and Uruguay). These important cattle raising and agricultural areas are the homeland of the gaúcho, the human type forged in the campos by centuries of cattle herding. For many years the Portuguese disputed with the Spanish for control of the southern border regions and access to the Rio de la Plata. These interior border buffer zones were largely inhabited by nomadic gaúchos or cowboys, who tended to large cattle herds destined to supply the mining centers in the Southeast and large urban centers.A criação de gado continua tendo um importante papel nos campos relativamente planos ou pradarias. A topologia da maior parte do oeste de Santa Catarina e do sul do Rio Grande do Sul é caracterizada pelos campos ou pradarias, similares aos pampas dos países vizinhos Argentina e Uruguai. Nestas importantes áreas de criação de gado e agricultura foi onde nasceu a figura típica do gaúcho, a figura humana que tomou se formou nos campos durante séculos na condução do gado. Por muitos anos os portugueses disputaram com os espanhóis as regiões fronteiriças do sul e o acesso do Rio de la Plata. Durante o período de disputa estas regiões foram largamente habitadas por gaúchos nómades, vaqueiros que cuidavam de grandes manadas de gado destinadas a suprir os centros de mineração e os centros urbanos na região Sudeste.

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Latin American and Iberian Institute / University of New Mexico

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