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Los Cipreses S.A., doing business as Buquebus, is a Uruguayan company [1] that operates ferry services from Buenos Aires to Montevideo and Colonia.The company also operates a fleet of coaches to Termas del Arapey, Termas del Dayman, Salto, Uruguay, Carmelo, Atlántida, Punta del Este, La Paloma, La Pedrera and Punta del Diablo from Montevideo, Colonia and Piriapolis.
Atlantic Express is a high speed catamaran operated by Argentinian ferry operator Colonia Express. She was launched on 28 January 1991 as Hoverspeed Boulogne . [ 1 ] The vessel operates between Buenos Aires and Colonia del Sacramento .
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 .
The pipeline is 215-kilometre (134 mi) long and it has capacity of 1.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year. [1] [4] It cost US$150 millions. [3] The offshore section between Punta Lara (Argentina) and Santa Ana (Uruguay) across of the River Plate, is 57-kilometre (35 mi) long. It has a diameter of 24 inches (610 mm) and a maximum ...
Its proximity to Buenos Aires makes it the main entry point for tourists traveling from Argentina to Uruguay. Tourism is also favored by part of the capital being a World Heritage Site . The PepsiCo plant located in the department's capital, is one of the three largest worldwide, [ 2 ] employing more than 2,000 people and serving the entire ...
6 June 2012: an Air Class Líneas Aéreas Fairchild SA227AC Metro III, registered CX-LAS, performing a freight flight on behalf of DHL from Montevideo to Buenos Aires disappeared south of Isla de Flores. [9] Parts of the aircraft were located by a scuba diver approximately 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of Isla de Flores on 20 July 2012.
Prisendam in the Port of Montevideo. Montevideo Bay is one of the reasons the city was founded. It gives natural protection to ships, although there are now two jetties that protect the harbour entrance of the waves. This natural port makes it competitive with the Río de la Plata's other great South American port—the Port of Buenos Aires. [3]
Palacio Salvo (English: Salvo Palace) is a building at the intersection of 18 de Julio Avenue and Plaza Independencia in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was designed by the architect Mario Palanti, an Italian immigrant living in Buenos Aires, who used a similar design for his Palacio Barolo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Finished in 1928, Palacio Salvo ...