Ibaje

Ibaje lies in the open grasslands of southern Brazil, at the site of Bagé. This was a border country contested by the Portuguese and Spanish empires. After the Treaty of Madrid in 1750, a commission surveyed the frontier near Santa Tecla. Portuguese authorities later granted land for cattle estates, and in 1811 a settlement began to grow around a military camp during the conflict unfolding across the border in the Río de la Plata region.