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The Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Spanish: Instituto Uruguayo de Metereología) or INUMET for short, is the weather agency that provides meteorological and climatological services to Uruguay. It is also the aeronautical meteorological authority of the country in application of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (ICAO).
The main sources of carbon emissions in Uruguay are food production and transport. [26] [27] When compared to the rest of the world, Uruguay only contributes 0.05% of the total global emissions. [28] In 2017, Uruguay identified 106 methods of reducing emissions as part of their Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Climate Agreement.
Since 2004, Uruguay had usually observed daylight saving time. Starting in 2006, DST begins on the first Sunday in October and ends on the second Sunday in March of every year. [1] Time zone changed from Standard Time Zone UTC−03:00 to UTC−02:00.
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Increases of climate rain in Uruguay and Argentina during 2018 was estimated by the World Meteorological organization to have caused $2.5 billion in damage. [2] The main sources of carbon emissions in Uruguay are food production and transport. [3] [4] When compared to the rest of the world, Uruguay only contributes 0.05% of the total global ...
The Administración de Ferrocarriles del Estado is the autonomous agency in charge of rail transport and the maintenance of the railroad network. Uruguay has about 1,200 km (750 mi) of operational railroad track. [67] Until 1947, about 90% of the railroad system was British-owned. [126]
With its hotels, restaurants, casino, and nightclubs, Punta del Este was a major export earner, and it dominated Uruguay's tourism industry. [ 1 ] Vacationing Uruguayans of more modest means were concentrated in smaller resorts such as Piriápolis and Atlántida, which are closer to Montevideo. [ 1 ]
The civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973–85), also known as the Uruguayan Dictatorship, was an authoritarian military dictatorship that ruled Uruguay for 12 years, from June 27, 1973 (after the 1973 coup d'état) until March 1, 1985.