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  Uruguay
Uruguay then experienced a series of elected and appointed presidents and saw conflicts with neighbouring states, political and economic fluctuations and modernisation, and large inflows of immigrants, mostly from Europe.
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.
Uruguay's economy is characterised by an export-oriented agricultural sector, a well-educated workforce, and high levels of social spending.
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 Uruguay
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 is the third smallest country in South America, after Suriname and French Guiana.
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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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Uruguay
Its boundaries are; west, the Río Uruguay; south the Río Uruguay, south the Río de la Plata, which separate it from the Argentine Republic for a distance of 425 miles, south also and east, the Atlantic ocean for 200 miles, and Lago Mirim, a lagoon dividing Uruguay from the southeast of Brazil.
Uruguay's independence was soon recognized by both the Argentine and Brazil in the Treaty of Montevideo, 27 August, 1828.
Uruguay has over 5500 miles of good roads; 1472 miles of railroad in 3 systems running from the capital; 170 of tramway, the system at Montevideo being electric; 319 telegraph and 1018 post offices; there are 2 telephone companies, and 2 wireless stations.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Eastern Republic of Uruguay or the Republic East of the Uruguay (River) (Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay; pron.
Uruguay received enormous publicity in 1972 due to the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 whose passengers were the alumni rugby team of Stella Maris College (Montevideo).
Uruguay is distinguished by its high literacy rate (98%), large urban middle class, and relatively even income distribution.
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 Departments of Uruguay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uruguay consists of 19 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) (capitals in parentheses):
The only department to border both Argentina in the west and Brazil in the north and east.
The department is named after 33 19th century patriots honoured by Uruguayans.
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 Uruguay
Brazil's intervention in Uruguay was intensified both because of Argentina's temporary weakness and because of Brazil's desire to expand its frontiers to the Río de la Plata.
The proportion of the immigrant population in Uruguay rose from 48 percent in 1860 to 68 percent in 1868.
Uruguay is located in the Southern Hemisphere on the Atlantic seaboard of South America between 53 and 58 west longitude and 30 and 35 south latitude.
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 Uruguay at Caribbean Topfunwebsites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It is bordered by Brazil to the north, the Uruguay River to the west, the estuary of the (literally "Silver River", 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.
The work of President of Uruguay made Uruguay an advanced nation with a complex Welfare state; for most of the 20th century Uruguay was on par with European nations.
The President of Uruguay, who is both head of state and head of government, is elected by popular vote for a five-year term, with the vice president elected on the same ticket.
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 Uruguay - The Interior, Littoral, Greater Montevideo and Coast
According to the 1985 census, the population of the department of Montevideo was 1,311,976, and that of the neighboring department of Canelones was 364,248, out of a total population of 2,955,241.
Uruguay's regions differed markedly not only in population size and density but also in their indexes of social and economic development, including education, health care, communications, energy consumption, and industrialization.
Finally, Montevideo and the department of Maldonado (which is strongly affected by the tourism industry in Punta del Este) had the highest indexes of social and economic development in the country.
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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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 Uruguay Departments
The president of Uruguay decreed on 2004-09-15 that the country would set its time ahead by one hour, starting on 2004-09-19 at 0:00, and ending on 2005-03-13 at 0:00.
The decree uses the expression "between the third Sunday in September 2004 and the second Sunday in March 2005." However, the ending date was later postponed to March 27 at 02:00.
Source: "Uruguay y su Espacio: antecedentes y una propuesta", by Bernardo Quagliotti de Bellis and Victor Chamorro, Editorial Geosur, 1979.
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 uruguay map and map of uruguay and information page
Uruguay's independence was immediately threatened, as both Argentina and Brazil desired this land.
Climate Uruguay is the only Latin American country not situated within the tropics, and its location provides a sunny and warm temperate climate, with rain (mostly brief showers) distributed evenly throughout the year.
Uruguay is truly a country of water, and be it on the ocean or inland rivers and lakes, watersports activities abound, including canoeing, fishing, kayaking, jet skiing, wind surfing and water skiing.
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 Uruguay - The Economy - The Export Model   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
After several decades of arrested development, Uruguay's economy underwent a series of important changes during the latter half of the 1800s.
The consolidation of political control by the Colorado Party (Partido Colorado) and the division of the control of the departments in 1872 spelled the end of almost constant warfare and meant that the departments of Uruguay were finally united as one nation.
The framework for Uruguay's primaryproduct export economy, which supplied food and basic inputs to Europe's dynamic industrial sector, was erected during this period.
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 National Cattlemen's Beef Association
On April 24, 2001, FMD was clinically confirmed in the Uruguayan department of Soriano, near Uruguay's border with Argentina.
Uruguay's Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries notified the United States Department of Agriculture and the Office International des Epizooties that, as of August 21, 2001, there had been 2,057 confirmed cases of FMD in 18 departments of Uruguay, including Artigas and Soriano.
Based on our assessment, and considering the effective control measures employed by the government of Uruguay after the initial outbreak and their ongoing control measures, we have determined that it is not necessary to prohibit the importation of fresh (chilled or frozen) beef from Uruguay, as long as the beef meets certain stringent conditions.
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 Uruguay - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The future capital Ê- % water 1.5% Montevideo was founded in the early 18th century and became a rival to Population Ranked 127th Buenos Aires across the Rio de la Ê- Total (2000) 3,360,105 Plata.
Economy Uruguay's economy is characterised by an export-oriented agricultural sector, a well-educated workforce, and high levels of social spending.
Church and state are officially separated, with most adhering to the Roman Catholic faith (66%), with smaller Protestant (2%) and Jewish (1%) communities, as well as a large nonprofessing group (31%) Uruguay is distinguished by its high literacy rate, large urban middle class, and relatively even income distribution.
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 Top20Uruguay.com - Your Top20 Guide to Uruguay!
Uruguay's Constitution of 1967 created a strong presidency, subject to legislative and judicial checks.
Uruguay is the second-smallest country in South America, after Suriname.
The most popular sport in Uruguay is football (called fútbol in Spanish), and the country has earned many honours in that sport, including gold medals at the 1924 and 1928 Olympics and two World Cups.
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 Uruguay
The official name of this country since the second constitution of 1917 is "República Oriental del Uruguay" (in the first constitution of 1830 was "Estado Oriental del Uruguay").
The reason is that the name comes from it being on the east bank of the Uruguay river.
The sun is the "Sun of May" first used in Argentina and is derived from its historical ties with what was then the United Provinces of the River Plata.
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 Travel to Uruguay - Holidays in Uruguay
Brazil to the north, the Uruguay River to the west, the estuary of the Río de la Plata [Silver River ] to the southwest, with
Modernization brought drastic changes in the life of the gauchos, who "were accustomed to hunting calves freely under the open sky of the unfenced pampa, to eating the best meat and discarding the rest for the sole obligation of delivering the hide to the owner.
The Teatro Solis in Montevideo, Uruguay - established in 1856 and still operating - is the oldest theatre in the Americas.
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 flag of Durazno (Uruguay) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
According to http://members.tripod.com/estegosaurio/bandera.htm, the new flag of the department of Durazno, Uruguay, was adopted 12 october 2000, for commemorating 179 years after the fondation of Durazno.
The flag has been designed on a blue background; the meaning is that a great twelve-pointed star, surrounded by 18 smaller six-pointed ones represents the central geographical position in the country of this department, which was founded on October 12, 1821.
The rest of the stars represent the remaining departmentes in which the country is divided.
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 Thematic Groups - April 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Uruguay: Activities of the National Thematic Group continue to bear fruits in other departments in the country.
As a result of the expansion of the activities of the Programa DERSA (Rural Development and Food Security Programme) to other departments in Uruguay such as Artigas, Salto and Paysandú; a series of information and communication material was developed.
Thanks to the support of the UN Resident Coordinator System consultants in nutrition, health education and social assistance produced and gathered the documents used to support the capacity building activities of the Thematic Group on food security and rural development project on a CD-ROM.
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 FREE In-depth report - The Littoral - Uruguay
To the north along the Río Uruguay lie the departments of Soriano, Río Negro, and Paysandú;.
Farther south, the littoral economy had benefited from completion of the General Artigas Bridge across the Río Uruguay from Paysandú; to the Argentine province of Entre Ríos.
This is public domain information from the US State Department Country Guide.
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 Uruguay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
República Oriental de Uruguay; Oriental Republic of Uruguay
My little flag book (French translation of [ing79]) refers to the suns as «Sun of May» for Argentina and «Star of May» for Uruguay.
In a recent visit of the spanish Kings to Uruguay, the Artigas flag, the national flag and the 33 Orientales flag shown togheter (as usual) in official acts and military parades.
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 Uruguay - List of Champions O.F.I. (Clubes del Interior)
Known as "Copa El País" as the trophy was donated by the Montevidean Newspaper of the same name, it's played by clubs from all the departments of Uruguay, with the exception of Montevideo, since 1965.
The Torneo Mayor 2001 was called-off, and the top-six teams of the 2000 edition, were given a bye to the fourth round of the new Copa El País alongside with Ituzaingó and Salto Uruguay, Copa El País 2000 finalists.
You are free to copy this document in whole or part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors.
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The technical assistance project was developed in the context of the third phase of the National Municipal Development Plan for Uruguay, for which the Bank is in the process of approving a US$ 55 million loan.
The technical assistance developed in collaboration with the local authorities has been useful in establishing the strategic guidelines for the rehabilitation of the productive sector in those departments, and the specific technical and financial requirements for the loan.
The study demonstrated that the agricultural and agroindustrial sectors present the most interesting development prospects, despite existing difficulties derived from the increase in competitiveness of the local and international markets.
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 FREE In-depth report - The Export Model - Uruguay
of the departments in 1872 spelled the end of almost constant warfare and meant that the departments of Uruguay were finally united as one nation.
After 1870 Uruguay had more sheep than cattle, largely because of an influx of sheep ranchers
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 Embassy of the United States of America - Montevideo, Uruguay
U.S. Department of State Background Note - Vital statistics and information on history, government, economy, business/travel conditions, etc.
Uruguay: Economic Summary - Assembled and updated by the U.S. Embassy in Uruguay (Pdf file)
The Uruguay Cultural Foundation for the Arts - Dedicated to the diffusion of Uruguayan cultural heritage among communities in the United States
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 URUGUAY: MONTEVIDEO & COLONIA
The Cathedral at the heart of Montevideo, capital of The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, so-named because the country is on the eastern bank of the Uruguay River.
Banknotes with the arms of the departments of Uruguay.
Stamp commemorating the delineation of Rio de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay.
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 Wikinfo | Uruguay
To the southwest is the Rio de la Plata (River Plate), the estuary of the Uruguay River that forms the western border, and the Parana River, that does not run through Uruguay itself.
Presidencia de la República Oriental del Uruguay - Official presidential site (in Spanish)
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