Qualla: Uruguaiana https://qualla.com/uruguaiana en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Uruguaiana https://qualla.com/uruguaiana Uruguaiana: Introduction https://qualla.com/uruguaiana/ Stand on the riverfront in Uruguaiana and you can see another country. Across the wide, slow Uruguay River lies the Argentine town of Paso de los Libres, close enough to wave at, joined to Uruguaiana by a single bridge that carries both road and rail. This is the far western edge of Brazil, where Rio Grande do Sul runs out of land and brushes up against two neighbors at once. To the south, the municipality touches Uruguay as well, making Uruguaiana one of the rare places in Brazil where three nations very nearly meet. North of town, another bridge, built by the British in 1888, crosses the Ibicuí River toward Itaqui. To live here is to live among borders, with foreign shores on the horizon in nearly every direction.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/x/q/uruguaiana-wp/6dxq-uruguaiana-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Uruguaiana: Cattle Country and the Endless Plain https://qualla.com/uruguaiana/ This is gaucho country, flat to gently rolling, given over to grass and herds. The land around Uruguaiana counts more than 200,000 head of cattle, and the rhythms of livestock raising shape the local culture as much as the economy. Where the ground isn't grazed, it's flooded for ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/x/q/uruguaiana-wp/6dxq-uruguaiana-the-bridge-between-two-presidents.mp3 0:06 3 full Uruguaiana: The Song of the Gauchos https://qualla.com/uruguaiana/ Every year, Uruguaiana fills with music. The town is home to the Califórnia da Canção Nativa, a festival of regional gaucho song that has run for decades and draws performers and crowds from across the south. The name itself, borrowed playfully from California, captures the festi...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/x/q/uruguaiana-wp/6dxq-uruguaiana-the-song-of-the-gauchos.mp3 0:06 4 full Uruguaiana: Where the War Reached Its Limit https://qualla.com/uruguaiana/ Uruguaiana carries a heavier history too. In 1865, during the Paraguayan War, this was the southernmost point invading Paraguayan forces ever reached. They took the town without resistance, then found themselves besieged for six weeks by the combined armies of Brazil, Argentina, ...

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