BARE  , a

town and municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, about 176 m. by rail W.N.W. of the city of Rio Grande do Sul . Pop. of the municipality (1890) 22,692 . It is situated in a hilly region 774 ft. above sea-level, and is the commercial centre of a large district on the Uruguayan border in which pastoral occupations are largely predominant . This region is the watershed for southern Rio Grande do Sul, from which streams flow E. and S.E. to the Atlantic coast, and N.W. and S.W. to the Uruguay river . The town dates from colonial times, and has always been considered a place of military importance because of its nearness to the Uruguay frontier, only 25 M. distant . It was captured by the Argentine general Lavalle in 1827, and figured conspicuously in most of the civil wars of Argentina . It is also much frequented by Uruguayan revolutionists .