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'''Expointer''' is an [[agricultural show]] with national importance in [[Brazil]] that occurs every year in the Parque de Exposições Assis Brasil in the city of [[Esteio]], in the metropolitan area of [[Porto Alegre]] in the Brazilian state of [[Rio Grande do Sul]].

It is considered the largest livestock show in [[Latin America]]. Brazilian politician [[Raul Jungmann]] described the show as "a symbol of [[gaucho]] pride".<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Meszaros |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WeAAAAAQBAJ&dq=Expointer&pg=PT130 |title=Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform: Lessons from Brazil |date=2013-08-21 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-135-90872-0 |pages=108–111 |language=en}}</ref>

The first edition occurred on February 24, 1901, in [[Porto Alegre]]. 

In 1999, Expointer was at the centre of a political dispute between state governor [[Olívio Dutra]] and landowners over [[land reform]]. After the state landowner's association threatened to boycott the 99th edition of the fair in 2000, the Dutra government conceded a 30-day suspension of land audits and a new commission to examine the state's productivity indices to end the boycott threat.<ref name=":0" />

In 2004 the fair received a record public of 720 thousand people.

No Expointer was held from 1915-18, 1940-45 nor 2021.

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.expointer.rs.gov.br/inicial Expointer - Official website]

[[Category:Agricultural shows]]
[[Category:Agriculture in Brazil]]


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