The military were much time in alone place, which had to the precarious ways of mobility. When they broke or they raised encampment the military left the remainders of its occupants, over all the commerce farms. For Zarth (2002), the appropriation of lands gauchos, in century XVIII, had fort incentive of the military authorities that had installed ranches or farmings for the officers and soldiers, with the objective to populate the region of the south of the country. The size of the property in turn, would be on to the degree of the military man and the influence of the benefited one. The conflicts that if had uncurled in the River of the Silver, at the beginning of century XIX, with the rebellions of the Spanish colonies that if had become independent, had stimulated the intervention of D. Joo VI in the neighboring territory.
An Army was formed called luso-Brazilian of ' ' the Pacificador' Army; ' , made up of territorial military services and troops of line, that if concentrated in 1811 under the command of General Captain Dom Diogo de Souza (1 Conde de Medium brown Rio), in the desert place border with current Uruguay. Part of this Army that if established to the edges of the River Ibirapuit, in the border of Medium brown River, receiving the name from City of Is Diogo, it gave beginning to the povoamento of the region. But it was only in the 1814, that government to guarantee the consolidation politics and the ownership of the territory, donated for the soldiers of the Pacifying Army and for other subjects of the crown, great extensions of land? the sesmarias. These were demarcated by the natural accidents? courses d? water, cerros, sangas, trees, canhadas? of these was part the existing cattle inside of its limits. Later in 1818, Luciano Pine receives one would sesmaria in the locality of Great Coxilha, in which if ' pointed out the initial povoamento of the city of Santana of the Release; ' said Luciano Pine to the fields asked for the cattle creation, I contend the extension of one lgua of front and three of fundos' ' (BLACKSMITH, 1959).
