Triunfo

Triunfo is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Historical city, Triunfo is the birthplace of Bento Gonçalves, playwright Qorpo Santo, actress Iracema de Alencar and the place where the Madeiran Jeronimo de Ornelas, founder of the city of Porto Alegre, is buried. It currently has the highest GDP per capita in Rio Grande do Sul, due to the petrochemical industry. Rumph has a past strongly linked to the Farroupilha Revolution, having been the scene of several battles, such as the Battle of Fanfa, when Bento Gonçalves was arrested.

The primitive inhabitants of the zone that today constitute the municipality of Triunfo were the Patos Indians, whose memory is represented in several objects of its use, that compose the rich collection of the Farroupilha Museum, insatalado in the house where the great hero Bento Gonçalves da Silva was born. The region has also suffered incursions from other indigenous tribes such as Minuanos, Charruas and Tapes. With the arrival of the Portuguese, the Indians were abandoning their lands and marinating by the rivers, rising to their springs and establishing themselves to its banks.