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We Learned About : Gauchos! Goodbye in Portuñol = Ciao Hello in Portuñol = Que dice gallo? (what's up, rooster?) To learn more and more . . . and MORE visit http://www.AllAroundThisWorld.com Uruguay is a small but very proud country tucked between Argentina and Brazil along South America's Atlantic coast. Uruguayan music mixes Spanish, African and indigenous peoples' traditions in genres like the Afro-Uruguayan candombe. Uruguay is birthplace of tango (unless you ask Argentina) and murga, a Carnival-time form of costumed musical theater. Portuñol is an informal mix of Spanish and Portuguese spoken along the Uruguayan border with Brazil. Gauchos are Uruguayan “cowboys” who live, ride horses and drink yerba maté on the pampas (the plains).
