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On October 25, 2013, through Law No. 19158, the Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology was created, which had more autonomy for the development of its public activity, thereby replacing the National Meteorology Directorate, which was dependent of the Ministry of Defense. [7]
Servicio Meteorológico Nacional announced that the cold wave had begun in Argentina on June 21 through its official Twitter account. By 30 May, the City of Buenos Aires registered a relevant drop in temperature, the SMN said that the wave "advanced from Patagonia to the central zone of the country, and when combined with nights of little cloudiness, favored values of low temperatures and frosts."
Planetario de Montevideo in 2017. The Planetario de Montevideo (or Montevideo Planetarium; also known as the Surveyor Germán Barbato Municipal Planetarium), is a planetarium in Montevideo, Uruguay. Inaugurated on 11 February 1955, [1] it was the first planetarium in Latin America [2] and all of the southern hemisphere.
Montevideo Department was one of the first departments created in the current territory of Uruguay, then Provincia Oriental. It was created on 27 January 1816 by Montevideo Cabildo's decree and approved by José Artigas on next 3 February, at the same time Maldonado, Soriano, Canelones, San José and Colonia departments were being created.
The Ateneo de Montevideo was founded as a cultural and educational club on July 3, 1886, with the merger of the Sociedad Universitaria and the Ateneo del Uruguay associations. [2] It began as a free university that sought to break out of the state system dominated by the political changes and religious dogmatism prevailing in Uruguayan society ...
The Fortaleza del Cerro, also known as Fortaleza General Artigas, is a fortress situated in Montevideo, Uruguay overlooking the Bay of Montevideo. It belongs to the barrio of Casabó , at the west of Villa del Cerro .
The Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Alphonsus (Spanish: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro y San Alfonso), popularly known as Iglesia de Tapes (due to its location on the Tapes Street, in the neighbourhood of Bella Vista) is a Roman Catholic parish church in Montevideo, Uruguay. [2]
The original project was started in 1965 as a future Palace of Justice, but the 1973 coup d'état interrupted it. [1] By the time the military government ended in 1985, the building was too small for the Uruguayan justice system, so the project remained halted for decades until in March 2006, President Tabaré Vázquez decided to finish the building and use it as an extension of the Estévez ...