Banda Oriental

The Banda Oriental del Uruguay (in Spanish, "Eastern Strip of the Uruguay river") was the South American territory east of the Uruguay River and north of the Río de la Plata, coinciding approximately with the modern nation of Uruguay, the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul and some parts of Santa Catarina. With the conquest of less economically dynamic parts of the Spanish empire for the Portuguese one by the Paulistas in the 17th and 18th centuries, it was effectively divided between a southern part held by Spain, and northern territories held by the Portuguese in order to raise mules for the use in the rest of Brazil.

The southern part, between 1776 and 1814, was part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, and afterwards of the United Provinces of South America.

The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves conquered the southern part in 1817 and renamed it the Província Cisplatina. By the mid 1820s, the Thirty-Three Orientals led a revolution against its successor state (the Brazilian Empire), igniting the Cisplatine War. At its conclusion, in 1828, the former Banda Oriental was declared an independent state, Uruguay, by the Treaty of Montevideo. Uruguaiana remained with Brazil.

See also

• History of Uruguay

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