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Treinta y Tres (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtɾejntaj ˈtɾes]) is a department of Uruguay.Its capital is Treinta y Tres.It is located in the east of the country, bordering the departments of Cerro Largo to the north, Durazno and Florida to the west, Lavalleja and Rocha to the south, while to its east is the lake Laguna Merín separating it from the southernmost end of Brazil.
Stretching west along the Río de la Plata from Montevideo, are the agricultural and dairying departments of San José and Colonia. [1] To the north along the Río Uruguay lie the departments of Soriano, Río Negro, Paysandú and Salto. [1] Their western halves form part of the litoral, a region that is somewhat more developed than the interior ...
The first division of Uruguay into six departments occurred on 27 January 1816. In February of the same year, two more departments were formed, and in 1828 one more was added. When the country's first constitution was signed in 1830, there were nine departments: Montevideo, Maldonado, Canelones, San José, Colonia, Soriano, Paysandú, Durazno ...
Soriano (Spanish pronunciation:) is a department of Uruguay. Its capital is Mercedes. It is located on the west of the country, south of Río Negro Department, north of Colonia Department and west of Flores Department. Its western border is the Río Uruguay, separating it from Argentina.
The Maldonado Department (Spanish: Departamento de Maldonado; pronounced [maldoˈnaðo]), with an area of 4,793 km 2 (1,851 sq mi) and 164,300 [1] inhabitants (2011), is located to the southeast of Uruguay. Its capital is Maldonado.
Uruguay is a representative democratic republic with a presidential system. [78] The members of government are elected for a five-year term by a universal suffrage system. [78] Uruguay is a unitary state: justice, education, health, security, foreign policy and defense are all administered nationwide. [78]
Its function was to defend the population of Montevideo and its port, on the río de la Plata. Governor Francisco Javier de Elío ordered construction in 1809 and it was completed in 1839; [2] this was the last Spanish fort built in Uruguay. It has housed the Military Museum since 1916.
Uruguay (/ ˈ jʊər ə ɡ w aɪ / ⓘ YOOR-ə-gwy, Spanish: [uɾuˈɣwaj] ⓘ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the ...