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The municipality of Quebracho is one of the municipalities of Cerro Largo Department, Uruguay, established on 30 October 2018. Its seat is the settlement of Quebracho . History
Uruguay is located at a longitude appropriate for a UTC−04:00 time zone offset, but it actually uses a UTC−03:00 offset. Uruguay used to observe daylight saving time (UTC−02:00) from October until March. [1] On 30 June 2015, the Uruguayan government decided to abolish DST, establishing the UTC−03:00 time zone all year round. [2]
It is located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) into a road that splits off Route 3 in a westward direction, about 52 kilometres (32 mi) north-northeast of the department capital city of Paysandú. The railroad track Salto - Paysandú passes through this town.
The Municipality was created by Law N° 18653 of 15 March 2020, in compliance with the provisions of the Law N° 18567 that provided for the creation of municipalities over all settlements with 2000 or more inhabitants.
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).
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.
The hill Cerro del Quebracho is part of this range. The second and smaller hill range, in the west part of the department, is the Cuchilla de Navarro. Independent of these ranges, the hill Cerro Pelado is in the middle south, and the hills Cerro Colorado and Cerro Malvenir are southeast of Fray Bentos.
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.