mate

traditional infusion from the yerba mate plant, from Paraguay, Guarani people.
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Summary

mate ranks in the top 0.58% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24,551 views/month, #449 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Guaraní people[2]
  • Country: Brazil[3], Uruguay[4]
  • Made from material: yerba mate leaf[5], yerba mate[6]
  • Subclass of: herbal tea[7], yerba mate beverage[8]
  • Part of: Brazilian cuisine[9], Uruguayan cuisine[10]
  • Commons category: Mate (beverage)[11]
  • Unicode character: 🧉[12]
  • Country of origin: Brazil[13], Paraguay[14], Uruguay[15], Argentina[16]
  • Commons gallery: Chimarrão[17]
  • Location of creation: Parana River Basin[18]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[19], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21]
  • Natural product of taxon: yerba mate[22]
  • Different from: tereré[23], mate tea[24]
  • Fabrication method: infusion[25]
  • History of topic: history of yerba mate[26]
  • Intangible cultural heritage status: Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial del Uruguay[27]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[28], Wiki Loves Cultura Popular Brasil - Culinária[29]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[30]

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Influence

Things named for mate include Ubuntu MATE[31], a Linux distribution[32], founded in 2014[33].

Why It Matters

mate has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] mate is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for mate include Ubuntu MATE[31], a Linux distribution[32], founded in 2014[33].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  3. [2] ↑ . argentina.gob.ar. argentina.gob.ar. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  26. [27] ↑ . Saberes compartidos – Proceso de inventario de patrimonio cultural inmaterial del Uruguay. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Muralituy · 2026-08-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → herbal tea, yerba mate beverage
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Subclass of: herbal tea"
  2. 18w ago · Mullanur · 2026-06-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Q131911788
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Topic's main category: Category:Mate"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Made from material → yerba mate leaf, yerba mate
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 27224, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  4. 21w ago · Muralituy · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Made from material → yerba mate leaf, yerba mate
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Made from material: yerba mate"
  5. 21w ago · Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → herbal tea, yerba mate beverage
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: herbal tea"
  6. 22w ago · Muralituy · 2026-05-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → mate
    Subclass of → —
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage
    Country of origin → Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay +1
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Subclass of: herbal tea"
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