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2 unusual facts about Augusto Pestana


Augusto Pestana

One hundred years later, Augusto Pestana, then director for Public Lands in Northwest Rio Grande do Sul, founded a settlement on the Cadeado Range, between the Conceição and the Ijuizinho rivers (the name "Cadeado", padlock in Portuguese, is a reference to a checkpoint that existed on the road between Cruz Alta and Santo Ângelo).

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During World War II, soldiers from Augusto Pestana fought for Brazil against Nazi Germany.


Cyro Pestana

Son of the Brazilian republican leader Augusto Pestana and great-grandson of the Italian opera singer Gaetano Ricciolini, Pestana graduated in 1919 from the National Law School of Rio de Janeiro.


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