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ThePeace Border (Portuguese:Fronteira da Paz;Spanish:Frontera de la Paz) is a portion of the Brazilian-Uruguayan land border, that includes thetwin cities ofRivera (Uruguay) andSantana do Livramento (Brazil). The border is so named because of the peaceful cultural interaction of the both nationalities leading to the integration of the two communities. The border is over land, united by a common square, with an imaginary line running through streets, avenues and some marked spots.
A symbol of this fraternal coexistence is thePraça/Plaza Internacional (International Square), the only binational square in the world, sovereignly shared between the two nations in equal parts, inaugurated on February 26, 1943, being the heads of state of both Brazil and Uruguay respectivelyGetúlio Vargas andAlfredo Baldomir, in times where the world was going through the belligerent times of theWorld War II (1939–1945).[1]