The Peace Border ( Portuguese: ''Fronteira da Paz'';

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

: ''Frontera de la Paz'') is a portion of the Brazilian-Uruguayan land border, that includes the

twin cities Twin cities are a special case of two neighboring cities or urban centres that grow into a single conurbation – or narrowly separated urban areas – over time. There are no formal criteria, but twin cities are generally comparable in stat ...

Rivera Rivera () is the capital of Rivera Department of Uruguay. The border with Brazil joins it with the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento, which is only a block away from it, at the north end of Route 5 (Uruguay), Route 5. Together, they form an ...

(

Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...

) and Santana do Livramento (

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). The border is so named because of the peaceful cultural interaction of the both nationalities leading to the integration of the two communities. The border is over land, united by a common square, with an imaginary line running through streets, avenues and some marked spots.

Praça Internacional

A symbol of this fraternal coexistence is the ''Praça/Plaza Internacional'' (International Square), the only binational square in the world, sovereignly shared between the two nations in equal parts, inaugurated on February 26, 1943, being the heads of state of both Brazil and Uruguay respectively

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. Due to his long and contr ...

and

Alfredo Baldomir Alfredo Baldomir Ferrari (August 27, 1884 – February 25, 1948) was a Uruguayan soldier, architect and politician. He served as President of Uruguay from 1938 to 1943. Uruguay was formally neutral in World War II during his presidency, but in ...

, in times where the world was going through the belligerent times of the

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

(1939–1945).

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