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Gaucho, the Glossary

A gaucho or gaúcho is a skilled horseman, reputed to be brave and unruly.^[1]

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Animal husbandry occupations
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National symbols of Argentina
South American folklore
Transhumance

Alberto Gerchunoff

Alberto Gerchunoff (January 1, 1883 – March 2, 1950), was an Argentine writer born in the Russian Empire, in the city of Proskuriv, now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.

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Andalusian Spanish

The Andalusian dialects of Spanish (andaluz) are spoken in Andalusia, Ceuta, Melilla, and Gibraltar.

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Aparicio Saravia

Aparicio Saravia da Rosa (August 16, 1856 – September 10, 1904) was a Uruguayan politician and military leader.

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Argentine Civil Wars

The Argentine Civil Wars were a series of civil conflicts of varying intensity that took place through the territories of Argentina from 1814 to 1853.

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Argentine Constitution of 1853

The current Constitution of Argentina dates from 1853.

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Attila

Attila, frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death, in early 453.

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Augustin Saint-Hilaire

Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire (4 October 17793 September 1853) was French botanist and traveller who was born and died in Orléans, France.

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Away from the World

Away from the World is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Dave Matthews Band.

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Ángel Vicente "Chacho" Peñaloza (October 2, 1798 – November 12, 1863) was a military officer and provincial leader prominent in both the history of La Rioja province and the Argentine civil wars that preceded national unity.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.

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Banda Oriental

Banda Oriental, or more fully Banda Oriental del Río Uruguay (Eastern Bank), was the name of the South American territories east of the Uruguay River and north of Río de la Plata that comprise the modern nation of Uruguay, the modern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and part of the modern state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

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Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna

Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna (August 25, 1831 – January 25, 1886) was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician.

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Bernardino Rivadavia

Bernardino de la Trinidad González Rivadavia (May 20, 1780 – September 2, 1845) was the first President of Argentina, then called the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, from February 8, 1826 to June 27, 1827.

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Bolas

Bolas or bolases (bola; from Spanish and Portuguese bola, "ball", also known as a boleadora or boleadeira) is a type of throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, used to capture animals by entangling their legs. Gaucho and bolas are Argentine folklore, Chilean folklore, culture in Rio Grande do Sul and gaucho culture.

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Bombilla

A bombilla (Spanish), bomba (Portuguese) or massasa (Arabic) is a type of drinking straw, used to drink mate.

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Borges on Martín Fierro

Borges on Martín Fierro concerns Argentine Jorge Luis Borges's comments on José Hernández's nineteenth-century poem Martín Fierro.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires, officially the Buenos Aires Province, is the largest and most populous Argentine province.

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Caudillo

A caudillo (cabdillo, from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput "head") is a type of personalist leader wielding military and political power.

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Cavalry

Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback. Gaucho and cavalry are horse-related professions and professionals.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Charrúa

The Charrúa are an Indigenous people or Indigenous Nation of the Southern Cone in present-day Uruguay and the adjacent areas in Argentina (Entre Ríos) and Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul).

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Charro

Charro, in Mexico, is historically the horseman from the countryside, the Ranchero, who lived and worked in the haciendas and performed all his tasks on horseback, working mainly as vaqueros and caporales, among other jobs. Gaucho and Charro are animal husbandry occupations, horse history and evolution, horse-related professions and professionals and Pastoralists.

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Churrasco

Churrasco is the Portuguese and Spanish name for grilled beef prominent in South American and Iberian cuisines, and in particular in Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina.

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Cinema of Argentina

Cinema of Argentina refers to the film industry based in Argentina.

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Copla (poetry)

The copla is a poetic form of four verses found in many Spanish popular songs as well as in Spanish language literature.

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Corrientes Province

Corrientes (‘currents’ or ‘streams’; Taragui), officially the Province of Corrientes (Provincia de Corrientes; Taragui Tetãmini) is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region.

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Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. Gaucho and cowboy are animal husbandry occupations, horse history and evolution, horse-related professions and professionals and Pastoralists.

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Creole peoples

Creole peoples may refer to various ethnic groups around the world.

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Criollo horse

The Criollo (in Spanish), or Crioulo (in Portuguese), is the native horse of the Pampas (a natural region between Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, in South America) with a reputation for long-distance endurance linked to a low basal metabolism.

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Cunninghame Graham

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852 – 20 March 1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer.

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Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band (also known as DMB) is an American rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991.

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David Christison

David Christison FRCPE LLD (25 January 1830–21 January 1912) was a Scottish physician, botanist, writer and antiquary.

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Diccionario de la lengua española

The Diccionario de la lengua española (DLE; English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language.

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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (born Domingo Faustino Fidel Valentín Sarmiento y Albarracín; 15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888) was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and President of Argentina.

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Don Segundo Sombra

Don Segundo Sombra is a 1926 novel by Argentine rancher Ricardo Güiraldes.

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Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor and filmmaker, best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films.

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Emeric Essex Vidal

Emeric Essex Vidal (29 March 1791 – 7 May 1861) was an English watercolourist and naval officer.

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Empire of Brazil

The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.

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Estancia

An estancia or estância is a large, private plot of land used for farming or raising cattle or sheep. Gaucho and estancia are culture in Rio Grande do Sul.

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Ezequiel Adamovsky

Ezequiel Adamovsky (born 1971) is an Argentine historian and political activist who has written many articles and books about intellectual history, globalization, anti-capitalism and left-wing politics.

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Facón

A facón is a fighting and utility knife widely used in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay as the principal tool and weapon of the gaucho of the South American pampas. Gaucho and facón are gaucho culture.

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Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo

The Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences (Portuguese: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, FFLCH) is a unit of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

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Facundo

Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism (original Spanish title: Facundo: Civilización y Barbarie) is a book written in 1845 by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a writer and journalist who became the second president of Argentina.

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Farroupilha

Farroupilha is a city in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the Serra Gaúcha between the cities of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul.

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Félix de Azara

Félix Manuel de Azara y Perera (18 May 1746 – 20 October 1821) was a Spanish military officer, naturalist, and engineer.

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Federalist Party (Argentina)

The Federalist Party was the nineteenth century Argentine political party that supported federalism.

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Federalist Revolution

The Federalist Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução Federalista) was a civil war that took place in southern Brazil between 1893 and 1895, fought by the federalists, opponents of Rio Grande do Sul state president, Júlio de Castilhos, seeking greater autonomy for the state, decentralization of power by the newly installed First Brazilian Republic and, arguably, the restoration of the monarchy.

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Fernando O. Assunção

Fernando Octavio Assunção Formica (12 January 1931 in Montevideo – 3 May 2006 in São Paulo) was a Uruguayan historian, anthropologist, scholar, historian, and writer.

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Foal

A foal is an equine up to one year old; this term is used mainly for horses, but can be used for donkeys.

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Gaucho (album)

Gaucho is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released by MCA Records on November 21, 1980.

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Gaucho sheepdog

The Gaucho Sheepdog (Ovelheiro gaúcho) is a dog breed that originated in the Pampas, Brazil.

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Gauchos of Eldorado

Gauchos of Eldorado is a 1941 American western film directed by Lester Orlebeck and starring Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Rufe Davis.

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Gene Tierney

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress.

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Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire.

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Getúlio Vargas

Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (19 April 1882 – 24 August 1954) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954.

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Gourd

Gourds include the fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria.

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Gringo

Gringo (masculine) or gringa (feminine) is a term in Spanish and Portuguese for a foreigner.

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Guaraní people

The Guarani are a group of culturally-related indigenous peoples of South America.

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Holly

Ilex or holly is a genus of over 570 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family.

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Huaso

A huaso is a Chilean countryman and skilled horseman, similar to the American cowboy, the Mexican charro (and its northern equivalent, the vaquero), the gaucho of Argentina, Uruguay and Rio Grande Do Sul, and the Australian stockman. Gaucho and huaso are animal husbandry occupations, horse-related professions and professionals, Pastoralists and Transhumance.

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Inodoro Pereyra

Inodoro Pereyra (The Renegade) is an Argentine comic created in 1972 by the writer and cartoonist Roberto Fontanarrosa.

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Internal passport

An internal or domestic passport is an identity document.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.

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Jewish gauchos

Jewish gauchos (gauchos judíos, gauchos djudíos) were Jewish immigrants who settled in fertile regions of Argentina in agricultural colonies established by the Jewish Colonization Association. Gaucho and Jewish gauchos are gaucho culture.

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Joan Coromines

Joan Coromines i Vigneaux (also frequently spelled Joan Corominas;Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, by Joan Corominas and José Antonio Pascual, Editorial Gredos, 1989, Madrid,. Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 1905 – Pineda de Mar, Catalonia, Spain, 1997) was a linguist who made important contributions to the study of Catalan, Spanish, and other Romance languages.

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John Charles Chasteen

John Charles Chasteen (born 1955) is an American translator, historian, and educator.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.

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José Gervasio Artigas

José Gervasio Artigas Arnal (June 19, 1764 – September 23, 1850) was a soldier and statesman who is regarded as a national hero in Uruguay and the father of Uruguayan nationhood.

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José Hernández (writer)

José Hernández (born José Rafael Hernández y Pueyrredón; 10 November 1834 in Chacras del Perdriel – 21 October 1886 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine journalist, poet, and politician best known as the author of the epic poem Martín Fierro.

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José Ingenieros

José Ingenieros (born Giuseppe Ingegnieri, April 24, 1877October 31, 1925) was an Argentine physician, pharmacist, positivist philosopher and essayist.

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José María Ramos Mejía

José María Ramos Mejía (1849–1914) was an Argentine politician and historian.

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Juan Bautista Alberdi

Juan Bautista Alberdi (August 29, 1810 – June 19, 1884) was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat.

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Juan Manuel de Rosas

Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rosas (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws", was an Argentine politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confederation.

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Kichwa language

Kichwa (Kichwa shimi, Runashimi, also Spanish Quichua) is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia (Inga), as well as extensions into Peru.

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Krupp

Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp (formerly Friedrich Krupp GmbH), trading as Krupp, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century as well as Germany's premier weapons manufacturer during both world wars.

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Language border

A language border or language boundary is the line separating two language areas.

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Lasso

A lasso or lazo, also called in Mexico reata and la reata, and in the United States riata or lariat (from Mexican Spanish, lasso for roping cattle), is a loop of rope designed as a restraint to be thrown around a target and tightened when pulled.

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Leopoldo Lugones

Leopoldo Antonio Lugones Argüello (13 June 1874 – 18 February 1938) was an Argentine poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, historian, professor, translator, biographer, philologist, theologian, diplomat, politician and journalist.

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Llanero

A llanero ('plainsman') is a South American herder. Gaucho and llanero are animal husbandry occupations and horse-related professions and professionals.

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Los Gauchos judíos

Los Gauchos judíos (Jewish gauchos) is a 1975 Argentine film based on the novel Los Gauchos Judíos (The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas in its English version) by journalist and writer Alberto Gerchunoff. Gaucho and Los Gauchos judíos are gaucho culture.

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Lucio Victorio Mansilla

Lucio Victorio Mansilla (December 23, 1831 – October 8, 1913) was an Argentinean general, journalist, politician and diplomat.

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Luján Partido

Luján Partido is a partido in the northeastern part of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.

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Maldonado, Uruguay

Maldonado is the capital city of Maldonado Department, in eastern Uruguay.

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Manuel Gálvez

Manuel Gálvez (18 July 1882 – 14 November 1962) was an Argentine novelist, poet, essayist, historian and biographer.

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Mapuche

The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia.

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Martín Fierro

Martín Fierro, also known as El Gaucho Martín Fierro, is a 2,316-line epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández.

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Martín Fierro (film)

Martín Fierro is a 1968 film based upon José Hernández's poem Martín Fierro, widely considered Argentina's national poem.

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Martín Miguel de Güemes

Martín Miguel de Güemes (8 February 1785 – 17 June 1821) was a military leader and popular caudillo who defended northwestern Argentina from the Spanish royalist army during the Argentine War of Independence.

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Mate (drink)

Mate or maté (Spanish:, Portuguese) is a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused herbal drink.

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Mauser

Mauser, originally the Königlich Württembergische Gewehrfabrik, was a German arms manufacturer.

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Mercedes, Uruguay

Mercedes is the capital and largest city of the department of Soriano in Uruguay.

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Mestizo

Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.

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Metathesis (from Greek, from "I put in a different order"; Latin: transpositio) is the transposition of sounds or syllables in a word or of words in a sentence.

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Metonymy

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

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Miguel Cané

Miguel Cané (27 January 1851 – 5 September 1905) was an Argentinian writer, lawyer, academic, journalist and politician.

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Modernization theory

Modernization theory holds that as societies become more economically modernized, wealthier and more educated, their political institutions become increasingly liberal democratic.

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Monopoly on violence

In political philosophy, a monopoly on violence or monopoly on the legal use of force is the property of a polity that is the only entity in its jurisdiction to legitimately use force, and thus the supreme authority of that area.

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Montevideo

Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.

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Montoneras

The Montoneras originally were known as the armed civilian, paramilitary groups who organized in the 19th century during the wars of independence from Spain in Hispanic America.

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Montoneros

Montoneros (Movimiento Peronista Montonero, MPM) was an Argentine far-left Peronist and Catholic revolutionary guerrilla organization, which emerged in the 1970s during the "Argentine Revolution" dictatorship.

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Morochuco

The Morochucos are the cowboys of the plains of the Peruvian Andes, living mainly in the Region of Ayacucho. Gaucho and Morochuco are animal husbandry occupations and Pastoralists.

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National epic

A national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks to or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation—not necessarily a nation state, but at least an ethnic or linguistic group with aspirations to independence or autonomy.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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Pampas

The Pampas (from the pampa, meaning "plain") are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.

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Patagonia

Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.

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Pato

Pato, also called juego del pato (literally "duck game"), is a game played on horseback that combines elements from polo and basketball. Gaucho and pato are national symbols of Argentina.

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Paul Groussac

Paul-François Groussac (February 15, 1848 – June 27, 1929) was a French-born Argentine writer, literary critic, historian, and librarian.

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Payada

The payada is a folk music tradition native to Argentina, Uruguay, southern Brasil, and south Paraguay as part of the ''Gaucho'' culture and literature. Gaucho and payada are Argentine folklore, Chilean folklore and gaucho culture.

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Pedro II of Brazil

Dom PedroII (2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed the Magnanimous (O Magnânimo), was the second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years.

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Pehuenche

Pehuenche (or Pewenche) are an indigenous people of South America.

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Peon

Peon (English, from the Spanish peón) usually refers to a person subject to peonage: any form of wage labor, financial exploitation, coercive economic practice, or policy in which the victim or a laborer (peon) has little control over employment or economic conditions.

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Phoneme

In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.

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Plains viscacha

The plains viscacha or plains vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus) is a species of viscacha, a rodent in the family Chinchillidae.

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Poncho

A poncho (punchu; pontro; "blanket", "woolen fabric") is a kind of plainly formed, loose outer garment originating in the Americas, traditionally and still usually made of fabric, and designed to keep the body warm.

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Priberam

Priberam is a Portuguese technology company, dictionary editor and software developer, based in Lisbon.

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Prilidiano Pueyrredón

Prilidiano Pueyrredón (January 24, 1823 – November 3, 1870) was an Argentine painter, architect and engineer.

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Rafael de Sobremonte, 3rd Marquis of Sobremonte

Don Rafael de Sobremonte y Núñez del Castillo, 3rd Marquis of Sobremonte (Seville, 1745 – Cádiz, 1827), third Marquis of Sobremonte, was an aristocrat, military man and Spanish colonial administrator, and Viceroy of the Río de la Plata.

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Rafael Obligado

Rafael Obligado (27 January 1851 – 8 March 1920) was an Argentine poet and playwright.

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Ragamuffin War

The Ragamuffin War or Ragamuffin Revolution (Portuguese: Guerra dos Farrapos or Revolução Farroupilha) was a Republican uprising that began in southern Brazil, in the province (current state) of Rio Grande do Sul in 1835.

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Río de la Plata

The Río de la Plata, also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda.

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Río Negro (Uruguay)

The Río Negro (Black River) is a river in southern Brazil and central Uruguay.

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Rebenque

Rebenque is the shared name in South American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese for a type of whip used by gauchos in South America. Gaucho and Rebenque are culture in Rio Grande do Sul and gaucho culture.

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Rhea (bird)

Rheas, also known as ñandus or South American ostrich, are moderately sized South American ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) of the order Rheiformes.

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Ricardo Güiraldes

Ricardo Güiraldes (13 February 1886 — 8 October 1927)Escuela Normal Superior de Chascomús was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set amongst the gauchos.

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Ricardo Rojas (writer)

Ricardo Rojas (16 September 1882, in Tucumán – 29 July 1957, in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine journalist and writer.

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Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul ("Great River of the South") is a state in the southern region of Brazil.

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Robert Lehmann-Nitsche

Robert Lehmann‑Nitsche (November 9, 1872 in Radomierz – April 9, 1938 in Berlin) was a German anthropologist who spent thirty years in Argentina as director of the Anthropological Section of the La Plata Museum and professor at the University of Buenos Aires.

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Roberto Fontanarrosa

Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa, known popularly as El Negro Fontanarrosa (November 26, 1944 in Rosario – July 19, 2007), was an Argentine cartoonist, comics artist and writer.

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Role model

A role model is a person whose behaviour, example, or success serves as a model to be emulated by others, especially by younger people.

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Romani language

Romani (also Romany, Romanes, Roma; rromani ćhib) is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities.

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Rory Calhoun

Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, August 8, 1922April 28, 1999) was an American film and television actor.

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Royal Spanish Academy

The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, generally abbreviated as RAE) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language.

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Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.

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Salta

Salta is the capital and largest city in the Argentine province of the same name.

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Salta Province

Salta is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country.

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Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos (Spanish for "Greetings, Friends") is a 1942 American live-action/animated propaganda anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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São Borja

São Borja is a city in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

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Scapegoating

Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and consequent negative treatment.

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Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on language and the ways it is used.

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Sound change

A sound change, in historical linguistics, is a change in the pronunciation of a language.

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Southern Cone

The Southern Cone (Cono Sur, Cone Sul) is a geographical and cultural subregion composed of the southernmost areas of South America, mostly south of the Tropic of Capricorn.

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Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an American rock band formed in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 1971 by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals).

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Stockman (Australia)

In Australia, a stockman (plural stockmen) is a person who looks after the livestock on a station, traditionally on horse. Gaucho and stockman (Australia) are animal husbandry occupations and horse-related professions and professionals.

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The Gaucho

The Gaucho (the official full title of the film is Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho) is a 1927 American silent adventure film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez that is set in Argentina.

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The Gaucho War

The Gaucho War (La guerra gaucha) is a 1942 Argentine historical drama and epic film directed by Lucas Demare and starring Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña, and Amelia Bence.

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The Jewish Gauchos

The Jewish Gauchos, (Los Gauchos Judíos in Spanish, and published in English as The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas) is a novel of Ukrainian-born Argentine writer and journalist Alberto Gerchunoff, who is regarded as the founder of Jewish literature in Latin America.

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The Three Mesquiteers

The Three Mesquiteers is the umbrella title for a Republic Pictures series of 51 American Western B-movies released between 1936 and 1943.

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Timur

Timur, also known as Tamerlane (8 April 133617–18 February 1405), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. An undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly.

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Tucumán Province

Tucumán is the most densely populated, and the second-smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina.

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Tug of war

Tug of war (also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war, rope pulling, or tugging war) is a sport that pits two teams against each other in a test of strength: teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, with the goal being to bring the rope a certain distance in one direction against the force of the opposing team's pull.

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Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage or universal franchise ensures the right to vote for as many people bound by a government's laws as possible, as supported by the "one person, one vote" principle.

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University of Antioquia

The University of Antioquia (Universidad de Antioquia), also called UdeA, is primarily a public research-based university, located in the city of Medellín, Colombia.

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University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.

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University of São Paulo

The University of São Paulo (Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil.

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Vaquero

The vaquero (vaqueiro) is a horse-mounted livestock herder of a tradition that has its roots in the Iberian Peninsula and extensively developed in Mexico from a methodology brought to the Americas from Spain. Gaucho and vaquero are animal husbandry occupations and horse-related professions and professionals.

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Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (Virreinato del Río de la Plata or Virreinato de las Provincias del Río de la Plata) meaning "River of the Silver", also called the "Viceroyalty of River Plate" in some scholarly writings, in southern South America, was the last to be organized and also the shortest-lived of one of the viceroyalties of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.

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Way of a Gaucho

Way of a Gaucho is a 1952 American Western drama film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Gene Tierney and Rory Calhoun.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaucho

Also known as Gaucha, Gauchism, Gauchos, Gautcho.

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