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Agraciada Beach is a historic beach area inUruguay.
It is situated on the eastern bank of theUruguay River, within theSoriano Department, on theUruguayan side of the river, opposite territory in theArgentine province ofEntre Ríos.
On April 19, 1825, theThirty-Three Orientals, who were to be credited with liberatingUruguay fromBrazilian occupation, landed at Agraciada Beach.
This landing of the historic Thirty Three at the beach proved to be one of the significant stages in the establishing the independence of Uruguay.
A monument to the arrival of theThirty-Three Orientals was erected in 1863 by local landowner donDomingo Ordoñana at the edge of the beach in the 19th century.
An avenue near thePalacio Legislativo inMontevideo was formerly named after the Agraciada Beach.
The beach was formerly known as 'graseada', from 'grasería',(Spanish: 'chandlery'), given the prior existence of a chandlery at that location. The word 'graseada' was later corrupted to the form 'agraciada'(Spanish: 'pretty', 'good looking'), and which was to become the durable form in the name.
