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  Uruguay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is bordered by Brazil to the north, the Uruguay River to the west, the estuary of the Río de la Plata (literally "River of Silver", but commonly known in English as "River Plate") to the southwest, with Argentina on the other bank of both, and finally the South Atlantic Ocean to the southeast.
Uruguay then experienced a series of elected and appointed presidents and saw conflicts with neighboring states, political and economic fluctuations and modernization, and large inflows of immigrants, mostly from Europe.
Uruguay's economy is characterised by an export-oriented agricultural sector, a well-educated workforce, and high levels of social spending, as well as a developed industrial sector.
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 Uruguay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Oriental Republic of Uruguay is a country in southern South America, bordered by Brazil to the north, the Uruguay River to the west, the estuary of the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) to the southwest, with Argentina on the other bank of both, and finally the South Atlantic Ocean to the southeast.
Uruguay is the second-smallest country in South America and the landscape features mostly rolling plains and low hills (cuchilla) with a fertile coastal lowland; most of it grassland, ideal for cattle and sheep raising.
To the southwest is the Rio de la Plata (Silver River), the estuary of the Uruguay River that forms the western border, and the Parana River, that does not run through Uruguay itself.
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 Uruguay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Uruguay is the second-smallest country in South America.
Uruguay won two Olympic gold medals in soccer in 1924 and in 1928.
Uruguay also won the World Cup in 1950, beating Brazil in Rio de Janeiro at Maracanã Stadium, a fact that many Uruguayan soccer fans still boast of.
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 URUGUAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Uruguay is one of the smallest countries in South America; it is located between 30 and 35 degrees latitude south covering almost 1 70.000 square km, bordering on Brazil by the North and Northeast, on Argentina by the West and on the River Plate and the Atlantic Ocean by the South and Southeast.
Uruguay is politically organizad as a unitary republic, geographically divided into 19 departments (districts), in accordance with a Constitution last reformed in 1967, under which the members of the govemment are elected every five years under a system of universal suffrage.
Uruguay's development strategy is based on an active participation of the private enterprise within the framework of an increasingly competitive market economy that continues to open both to the South American region and to the world.
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 MapZones.com : Uruguay Map
Uruguay (in Spanish, República Oriental del Uruguay), republic in south-eastern South America, bordered on the north and east by Brazil, on the east and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Río de la Plata, and on the west by Argentina.
Uruguay's theatre and music have not been the province of a small elite, as in Bolivia and Peru and some other Latin-American nations, but rather are broadly based in terms of support and participation.
Uruguay's economy is characterized by an export-oriented agricultural sector, a well-educated workforce, relatively even income distribution, and high levels of social spending.
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 Uruguay
Uruguay's early-19th century history was shaped by ongoing fights between the British, Spanish, Portuguese, and colonial forces for dominance in the Argentina-Brazil-Uruguay region.
Uruguay is committed to an open financial system and maintains a floating exchange rate; the government intervenes in the exchange market to maintain a peso devaluation rate of about 1% per month.
Uruguay also has been working with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia--under terms of the River Plate Basin Treaty--on an economic integration plan whose centerpiece is the development of the River Plate Basin as a major shipping and commercial transportation link known as Hidrovia.
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 MapZones.com : Uruguay Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Uruguay was once known as the "Switzerland of South America" as a result of its relative governmental stability, advanced level of economic development, and social peace.
Commentators talked of the "Latin Americanization" of Uruguay as it descended from the ranks of the developed nations to the level of the Third World.
Political and social unrest eventually culminated in the military coup of 1973; by then the case for seeing Uruguay as very different from the rest of Latin America was largely undermined.
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 Uruguay
Uruguay, on the east coast of South America south of Brazil and east of Argentina, is comparable in size to Oklahoma.
Uruguay revolted against Spain in 1811, only to be conquered in 1817 by the Portuguese from Brazil.
Uruguay, made prosperous by meat and wool exports, founded a welfare state early in the 20th century under President José Batlle y Ordóñez, who ruled from 1903 to 1929.
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 Uruguay 2711
Resolution 22/81 was transmitted to the Government of Uruguay through communications to the Foreign Affairs Ministry and to the Ambassador to the Organization of American States, as well as to the complainant in a communication sent to the address indicated by him.
Ferreira left Uruguay of his own will and "nothing prevents him from returning to it since the fact that his passport has not been renewed does not preclude his return to the country because there is no law requiring that a uruguayan national carry a current passport to exercise that right."
That the Government of Uruguay apparently does not lend importance to the implicit interpretation that the Commission gave to the aforementioned Article VIII when it states that said article was being violated to the detriment of Mr.
www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/82.83eng/Uruguay2711.htm   (644 words)

  
 Uruguay
Working jointly one of the task of this team was to evaluate to organochlorates pesticides contamination in Uruguay to determine the chlorate level in the blood of exposed and don’t exposed professional way population (5) The conclusions confirm that exist certain grade of organochlorates residues in the general population.
As other countries in the world, use of chlorated insecticides in Uruguay was ample, since their entry in the market, at the end of the forties.
The reason for no prohibited dodecachlor is due that in Uruguay the farmer have preference use for the granular toxic bait in ant control in fruticulture, horticulture, floriculture and mainly forest cultures.
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 Uruguay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The EC proposes that Uruguay's current GATS commitments are revised in accordance with this Request.
Uruguay has no specific commitments other than for services auxiliary to all modes of transport (storage and ware-housing).
Uruguay has commitments for this activity, with a restriction for “the regime of fiscal storage and warehousing”.
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 AllRefer.com - Uruguay - Transportation and Communications | Uruguayan Information Resource
Uruguay's small size and relatively flat terrain have made development of an excellent transportation network easy.
In 1989 Uruguay was granted loans of US$84 million from the Inter-American Development Bank and US$81 million from the World Bank (see Glossary) to modernize its international highways and to begin construction of Route 1, linking Montevideo with Buenos Aires.
The Río Uruguay was by far the most important waterway, and oceangoing ships of up to 4.2 meters draught could travel north as far as Paysandú.
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 Uruguay - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is bound by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and southeast, Brazil to the north and Argentina to the west.
The country's principal rivers are the Rio Negro, Uruguay, Rio Yi and the Rio Cebollati, which flows into the country's largest lake, Laguna Merin.
In 1951 Uruguay ratified a new constitution that abolished the presidential system of government and established a nine member National Council that allowed the Colorados and Blancos parties to share power.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/uruguay.htm   (1113 words)

  
 Uruguay
Uruguay is a county of approximately 3.2 million people with nearly one half residing in Montevideo, Uruguay's capital and its only large city.
One of the main factors behind Uruguay's improved GDP number was the relatively strong economic performance of Argentina and Brazil during the second half of 1995.
Uruguay has no fossil fuels resources and a small amount of hydroelectric power; thus, Uruguay almost totally relies on imports to meet its energy needs.
www.converger.com /eiacab/uruguay.htm   (872 words)

  
 Education (from Uruguay) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Uruguay has a high literacy rate, comparable to those of most developed nations.
The second smallest nation on the continent, Uruguay has long been overshadowed politically and economically by the adjacent republics of Brazil and Argentina, with both of which it shares many cultural and historical similarities.
One of the smallest of the countries of South America, the Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay) is a buffer between Latin America's two largest and most powerful republics.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-32692?tocId=32692   (798 words)

  
 Punta del Este - Cases - Business Library - University of Florida
"Punta del Este (Point of the East) in Uruguay officially divides the Rio de la Plata from the Atlantic Ocean, but it sometimes seems to divide the rich from the merely comfortable.
The main attraction during the summer season (January-March) is the marine resort of Punta del Este, where a new airport has been built (see Transport and communications).
It is Uruguay's third most important money spinner, after meat and wool.
web.uflib.ufl.edu /businesslibrary/cases/puntadeleste.htm   (533 words)

  
 ISEP Institutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The program includes Community Service Projects serving the underprivileged and marginalized populations in state institutions and non-governmental organizations such as schools, youth centers, hospitals, and displaced communities.
Profile: Founded in 1954, the Jesuit-administered Universidad Católica del Uruguay was recognized as a university in 1985 and continues its tradition of providing personalized education.
A port town on the Río Plata, Montevideo is the capital of the MERCOSUR and is mainly populated by European immigrants.
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 1000Countries.com: Uruguay: population, area, statistics, maps, flags, religions, languages, information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Uruguay's well-to-do economy is characterized by an export-oriented agricultural sector, a well-educated workforce, and high levels of social spending.
The debt swap with private creditors carried out in 2003, which extended the maturity dates on nearly half of Uruguay's $11.3 billion in public debt, substantially alleviated the country's amortization burden in the coming years and restored public confidence.
The economy is expected to resume growth in 2004 (perhaps 4% or more) as a result of high commodity prices for Uruguayan exports, the weakness of the dollar against the euro, growth in the region, low international interest rates, and greater export competitiveness.
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 Communications Of Uruguay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
If you would like to use this flag of Uruguay or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
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If you would like to use this information for Uruguay or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
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 Uruguay
Uruguay went into recession during second quarter 1995 and ended the year with an estimated 2% fall in GDP and a two percentage point rise in unemployment to 11%.
This was partly due to Argentina's recession and the slowdown in Brazilian growth in 1995, which contributed to declines in the Uruguayan manufacturing, construction, and service sectors.
Uruguay also recently augmented its transport and agricultural sector ties with the US.
www.emgmkts.com /research/country/latamer/uruguay.htm   (1228 words)

  
 Global Communications Newsletter/February 2003
Jorge Hedderwick, IEEE Communications Society Director for Latin America Region, informed me that the IEEE Bahia Section (Brazil) and the IEEE Uruguay Section were also interested in inviting me. Mr.
Hedderwick was very supportive in communicating with the sections and helping to arrange this tour that involved 12 flight segments (including connections), visiting four locations, and presenting six talks.
It is similar to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and is now facing the same problem of manipulation by politicians and powerful companies faced by the FCC in the past.
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 Results for 'Uruguay'
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Uruguay Section, R9) For the successful development of the Multi Media of Electrical Measurements CD-ROM for IEEE Student and young professional members in Latin America.
Uruguay) “For innovation and exemplary leadership in the conception, realization and successful implementation of the IEEE Region 9 Voluntary Contribution Fund"...
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 Uruguay Telecom Market Update: Upcoming Liberalization Promises Market Growth
The process will create a window of opportunity for companies eager to capitalize on the country's attractive demographics, as well as its position as a member of the trading bloc that includes Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay (plus Chile and Bolivia as associates).
Particularly for operators already active in the region, this will provide the opportunity to expand Mercosur coverage and offer clients in the region a seamless, one-stop-shopping communications solution.
Furthermore, Uruguay's geographic position as a terrestrial transit point for traffic between Argentina and Brazil will open further market opportunities.
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 Uruguay News
Uruguay News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Six months after socialists and former guerrillas became the government of this tiny South American country, the administration of socialist President Tabare Vsquez is facing a tricky...
Uruguay expects a busy 2005/06 cruise season with the port of Montevideo operating as the hub but incorporating the Atlantic resort of Punta del Este as a growing calling point more than trebling the number of...
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 Geography Of Uruguay - Montevideo Shop
Uruguay Geography and Facts Location: Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Brazil
Uruguay : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress...
Geography of Uruguay Location: Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Brazil...
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 Uruguay
Uruguay under civilian rule; the rough road back to Democracy.
The world trade system and the Uruguay Round: global employment implications.
Travelers love Uruguay's Old-World charm, but it won't last forever.
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 Bush Daddy Communications : Indymedia Uruguay
You should understand how communication glitches have caused a societal breakdown that has resulted in a "Concealed Holocaust" (24603 & 35206) that "No Body Is Going to Do Nothing About.." (41739); but it is also necessary to understand how the Niggardly Asinine Zionist Idiots (132033) have enabled this to happen.
At the forefront of this breakdown we have the pro-gay coprophagic Zionistic mainstream media, which still contends that the stupidity of Bush Daddy's illiterate kid is a sign of intelligence.
Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Indymedia Uruguay.
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 CIA - The World Factbook -- Uruguay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Montevideo, founded by the Spanish in 1726 as a military stronghold, soon took advantage of its natural harbor to became an important commercial center.
Annexed by Brazil as a separate province in 1821, Uruguay declared its independence four years later and secured its freedom in 1828 after a three-year struggle.
The economy grew about 10% in 2004 as a result of high commodity prices for Uruguayan exports, the weakness of the dollar against the euro, growth in the region, low international interest rates, and greater export competitiveness.
www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/print/uy.html   (1220 words)

  
 Communications in Uruguay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Television broadcast stations: 26 (plus ten low-power repeaters for the Montevideo station) (1997)
Country code (Top level domain): UY See also : Uruguay
This page was last modified 19:42, 24 October 2004.
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