Charrúa Nation and Indigenous Identity Day in Uruguay
Charrúa Nation and Indigenous Identity Day in Uruguay is held on April 11. This event in the second decade of the month April is annual. 
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The Uruguayan State, through the approval of Law 18.589, established that every April 11 will be commemorated the "Day of the Charrúa Nation and the Indigenous Identity". The same norm establishes that the Executive Power and Public Education shall coordinate different actions to inform and raise awareness among the citizens about the indigenous contribution to the national identity, the historical facts related to the Charrúa Nation and what happened in Salsipuedes on April 11, 1831.
On April 11, 1831, in the basin of the Salsipuedes Stream, located in the current Department of Paysandú almost in its limit with the Department of Tacuarembó, one of the last campaigns of extermination of the indigenous groups called Charrúas was carried out.
From the Colonial epoch, numerous military campaigns had been developed to eliminate the groups and individuals that disturbed the stability of the dominant political-economic systems. And the indigenous communities that did not depend on any centralist power were one of them.
With the consolidation of the independent Uruguayan State, this objective continued to be in force and became a reality in the first years of the first government.
It is thus, that in April of 1831 the then President of the Republic, General Don Fructuoso Rivera, summons to the main Caciques Charrúas and to his partialities to meet in the mentioned creek. After an ambush, they attacked the Charrúa groups, killing most of the men and taking numerous prisoners, mainly women and children.
Although there were some survivors who managed to flee, and the women and children were distributed as domestic service in the Creole society -and therefore had descendants-, after this episode, since the mid 1830s there are no more records of organized native groups.
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