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Indigenous peoples in Uruguay or Native Uruguayans, are the peoples who have historically lived in the modern state of Uruguay.Because of genocidal colonial practices, disease and active exclusion, only a very small share of the population is aware of the country's indigenous history or has known indigenous ancestry.
The office of president has never been held by a woman in Uruguay. [21] Beatriz Argimón was one of the founders of the Women's Caucus in Uruguayan parliament before she was elected vice president. [20] Women's Caucuses in non-Western countries are often able to create visibility for women's issues and more effectively pass related legislation ...
The Uruguay national football team is nicknamed "Los Charrúas" and a local rugby team in Porto Alegre is also named after the nation. Charrua, is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. [22] "Charrua" is also the name of a Brazilian military tank used for troop transportation.
Most Uruguayans descend from colonial-era settlers and immigrants from Europe with almost 88% of the population being of European descent. [14] The majority of these are Spaniards and Italians, followed by the French, Portuguese, Germans, Romanians, Greeks, British (English or Scots), Irish, Poles, [15] Swiss, Russians, Bulgarians, Arab (mainly Lebanese and Syrians), Sephardi and Ashkenazi ...
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Uruguayan This category exists only as a container for other categories of Uruguayan women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
"Society of the Snow" is earning raves for its a ccurate depiction of the terrifying 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains that involved a Uruguayan rugby team.. The new Netflix drama, directed ...
The Guarani are a group of culturally-related indigenous peoples of South America.They are distinguished from the related Tupi by their use of the Guarani language.The traditional range of the Guarani people is in what is now Paraguay between the Paraná River and lower Paraguay River, the Misiones Province of Argentina, southern Brazil once as far east as Rio de Janeiro, and parts of Uruguay ...
The Federal League (Spanish: Liga Federal), also known as the League of the Free Peoples (Liga de los Pueblos Libres), was an alliance of provinces in what is now Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil that aimed to establish a confederal organization for the state that was emerging from the May Revolution in the war of independence against the Spanish Empire.