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Treinta y Tres (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtɾejntaj ˈtɾes]) is a department of Uruguay.Its capital is Treinta y Tres.It is located in the east of the country, bordering the departments of Cerro Largo to the north, Durazno and Florida to the west, Lavalleja and Rocha to the south, while to its east is the lake Laguna Merín separating it from the southernmost end of Brazil.
On 18 de Julio Avenue is the Plaza de los Treinta y Tres, commonly known as Plaza de los Bomberos, because the Centennial Fire Department is located in front of it. [6] In the square there is a monument to the Thirty-Three Orientals, copy of a painting by national painter Juan Manuel Blanes on painted ceramic tiles, a bronze mounted statue of Juan Antonio Lavalleja, the monument to a fireman ...
The first division of Uruguay into six departments occurred on 27 January 1816. In February of the same year, two more departments were formed, and in 1828 one more was added. When the country's first constitution was signed in 1830, there were nine departments: Montevideo, Maldonado, Canelones, San José, Colonia, Soriano, Paysandú, Durazno ...
The first division of the Republic in six departments happened on 27 January 1816. [dubious – discuss] Two more departments were formed later that year.At that time, Paysandú Department included all the territory north of the Río Negro, which included the actual departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú, and Río Negro.
Colonia del Sacramento (Spanish: [koˈlonja ðel sakɾaˈmento] ⓘ; Portuguese: Colônia do Sacramento) is a city in southwestern Uruguay, by the Río de la Plata, facing Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is one of the oldest towns in Uruguay and the capital of the Colonia Department. It has a population of around 27,000.
Lagoon Mirim (Portuguese, pronounced) or Merín (Spanish, pronounced) is a large estuarine lagoon which extends from southern Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil into eastern Uruguay. Lagoa Mirim is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a sandy, partially barren isthmus.
Stretching west along the Río de la Plata from Montevideo, are the agricultural and dairying departments of San José and Colonia. [1] To the north along the Río Uruguay lie the departments of Soriano, Río Negro, Paysandú and Salto. [1] Their western halves form part of the litoral, a region that is somewhat more developed than the interior ...
The National Routes of Uruguay (officially in Spanish, Rutas nacionales de Uruguay) are the most important transport routes in the country, linking all locations.It has a network of 8,698 km of which 303 km are with concrete, asphalt 3,164 km, 4,220 km bituminous and 1,009 km rough.