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Rivera (Spanish pronunciation:) is the capital of Rivera Department of Uruguay. The border with Brazil joins it with the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento, which is only a block away from it, at the north end of Route 5. Together, they form an urban area of around 200,000 inhabitants.
Rivera Department (Spanish pronunciation:) is a department of the northern region of Uruguay. It has an area of 9,370 km 2 (3,620 sq mi) and a population of 103,493. Its capital is the city of Rivera .
The Uruguay River (Spanish: Río Uruguay [ˈri.o wɾuˈɣwaj]; Portuguese: Rio Uruguai [ˈʁi.u uɾuˈɡwaj]) is a major river in South America. It flows from north to south and forms parts of the boundaries of Brazil , Argentina and Uruguay , separating some of the Argentine provinces of La Mesopotamia from the other two countries.
The airport was opened on June 16, 1979, and in 1999 was named after Óscar Diego Gestido, President of Uruguay during 1967. On August 14, 2023, Uruguay and Brazil signed an agreement to binationalize the airport.
The Peace Border (Portuguese: Fronteira da Paz; Spanish: Frontera de la Paz) is a portion of the Brazilian-Uruguayan land border, that includes the twin cities of Rivera and Santana do Livramento . The border is so named because of the peaceful cultural interaction of the both nationalities leading to the integration of the two communities.
Autodromo Eduardo Prudêncio Cabrera is a 3.080 km (1.914 mi) motor racing circuit in Rivera. It was inaugurated in September 1951. However, it was abandoned at the end of the 1990s. [1] In 2012, the circuit was rebuilt again and it was reopened in November 2013. [1] The circuit currently hosts Fórmula Truck, and national championships.
Rincón de Tres Cerros (literally "corner of the three hills") is an area in Rivera Department of Uruguay, wedged between Tacuarembó River and stream Arroyo Cuñapirú (hence the toponym "corner"). The area owes its name to the three flat " mesas " or butte hills ( cerros ) aligned in a row, from the biggest in the South to the smallest in the ...
Rivera is located north of the Uruguay, is a department that is in a big commercial boom, its main source of tourism is shopping tourism, based on duty-free shops; there are currently approximately 70 duty-free shops in the city and in 2012 a shopping mall, Siñeriz Shopping, was opened. Two more shopping malls are scheduled to begin construction.