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  Uruguaiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uruguaiana is an important city in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
It is located on the left-hand (eastern) shore of the Uruguay River that forms the border with Argentina.
Opposite Uruguaiana, and joined to it by a road/railway bridge, lies the Argentine city of Paso de los Libres, Corrientes and at North with the Brazilian city of Itaqui joined by a bridge constructed by the English in 1888 over the Ibicuí River.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uruguaiana   (140 words)

  
 ::. INFRAERO - Brazilian Airports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Located on the border with Argentina (at Paso de los Libres), Uruguaiana is considered the major inland port in Latin America, thanks to its strategic position with the countries of Mercosur.
Located 9 km from the center city, this airport is at an elevation of 78 meters and the average annual temperature is 16°C, with a good deal of variation from summer to winter.
Located 630 km from the state capital (Porto Alegre), Uruguaiana was founded on May 29, 1746, and has a current population of 126,936.
www.infraero.gov.br /usa/aero_prev_home.php?ai=227   (190 words)

  
 Power Technology - Urugaiana Combined Cycle Gas Turbine CCGT Power Plant Brazil
Located in Uruguaiana in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the project site is about 44ha in size and is located in an area that is zoned for industrial development.
Its importance to the country is through its use of Argentinean gas in a privately owned, gas-fired plant in a country that is dominated by state-owned hydro capacity.
The second was approximately 130km in length and linked the Uruguaiana project to the substation located in Alegrete.
www.power-technology.com /projects/urugaiana/index.html   (777 words)

  
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Uruguaiana, Brazil (a.m.) / Capitan Miranda, Paraguay (p.m.)
Yesterday the temperature soared (about 28 C or 82 F) as we entered Uruguaiana, but today dark clouds and rain cooled things (about 17 C or 64 F) — more normal for the winter at this time of year.
Mauro and Flavia Reichembach befriended us in Uruguaiana by offering their garage for safe parking and recommending a superb restaurant, Casa Italia.
www.millenniumadventure.com /content/stories/story_20010817.cfm   (311 words)

  
 Latinamerica Press: Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Demonstrators in dozens of cities marked the International Day of Farmers’ Struggle on April 17, protesting police massacres of rural workers, use of genetically modified seeds and agricultural trade that jeopardizes food security.
About 2,000 landless campesinos and small farmers blocked the international bridge in Uruguaiana, on the Argentine border, to halt imports of farm products.
In Carazinho, 450 kilometers northeast of Uruguaiana, 1,000 people mobilized by the Landless Workers Movement (MST) blocked access to a Parmalat dairy plant.
www.latinamericapress.org /article.asp?lanCode=1&artCode=2201   (464 words)

  
 The well   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Petrobras and YPF formed a company to build the pipeline from the southeastern border city of Uruguaiana, Brazil, to Porto Alegre, a port and center for light industry and steel, the companies said in a joint statement.
The Uruguaiana pipeline, slated for completion by 2000, will be 370 miles long with a capacity of 420 million cubic feet per day.
It is the third pipeline aimed at supplying gas from Argentina to the fast-growing industries of southern Brazil.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/business/98/07/05/energy-briefs-7-5-98.2-1.html   (626 words)

  
 ARS | Publication request: Grazing Tolerance and Forage Production of Selected Dallisgrass Accessions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This study was initiated to evaluate five dallisgrass biotypes(common, prostrate, Torres, Uruguaiana, and Uruguayan) for yield, nutritive value, and persistence of these biotypes in Louisiana and Texas and to identify superior germplasm.
Most of the Uruguayan accessions were equal or superior to common dallisgrass for yield and nutritive value and all had superior stand persistence.
The Torres and Uruguaiana biotypes did not survive after the first harvest season.
www.ars.usda.gov /research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=133774   (372 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Brazil working group to evaluate TSB gas pipeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The pipeline would deliver 15 mm cmpd from Uruguaiana to a city gate in Canoas, within the Porto Alegre metropolitan region.
The first 25 km stage of the pipeline was completed in 2000, taking Argentine gas to US company AES' Uruguaiana thermoelectric plant on the border, but the work stopped there.
Three thermoelectric projects in metropolitan Porto Alegre would be the main clients of the pipeline.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntl22067.htm   (228 words)

  
 Day of Farmer Protests, Demands for Agrarian Reform
In one major mobilisation, some 2,000 landless peasants and small farmers blocked the international bridge in the border city of Uruguaiana, in southern Brazil, to halt imports of farm products from Argentina.
Members of Brazil's Landless Movement hold crosses during a demonstration in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife April 17, 2001, marking the fifth anniversary of a police massacre of 19 rural workers.
In Carazinho, 450 km northeast of Uruguaiana, another thousand people - mobilised by the powerful Movimento dos Sem Terra (MST - landless workers' movement) - gathered outside a dairy processing plant of the Italian transnational Parmalat, preventing the firm's administrators from entering the site.
www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines01/0418-02.htm   (864 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Natural gas to make up 10 % of Brazil's energy mix by 2005
In the southeast, scheduled investment is $ 500 mm to build 800 km of new pipelines, and in the northeast Petrobras will spend $ 400 mm to add 415 km to the Nordestao pipeline, doubling capacity to 24 mm cmpd.
In the south, Petrobras expects to increase capacity by 5 mm cmpd by end-2003 with the completion of the TSB line between Uruguaiana on the Argentine border and Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul state.
Petrobras' natural gas distribution network came to 7,390 km in 2002, which it plans to expand to 11,260 km by 2005, Silva said.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntl23818.htm   (292 words)

  
 International Market Research - Construction of Uruguaiana-Porto Alegre Gas Pipeline is Government Priority   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The first phase was concluded in June 2000 and allowed for the beginning of operations of the Uruguaiana thermal power plant and the supply of natural gas to Copel.
The first line connected the border of Argentina/Brazil to the city gate in Uruguaiana, supplying the Uruguaiana thermal power plant, with a 600 MW production capacity.
The second line connected the city of Canoas and the Petrochemical Complex of Triunfo, guranteeing the gas supply to the industrial complex, where the Companhia Petroquimica do Sul (Copesul) is located.
strategis.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/en/gr119958e.html   (798 words)

  
 URUGUAIANA HVDC SCHEME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
              1) Estacão Conversora de Frequência de Uruguaiana - Filtros Harmônicos.
              3) Estudos Para Definicão de Para-raios da Estacão Conversora de Frequencia de Uruguaiana.
              4) Estacão Conversora de Frequência de Uruguaiana - Sobretensoes de Origem Atmosférica e Coordenacão de Isolamento com Enforque Probabilistico.
www.transmission.bpa.gov /cigresc14/Compendium\URUGUAIN.htm   (345 words)

  
 Bulletin FAL No. 199 - March 2003 - BORDER CROSSINGS IN MERCOSUR COUNTRIES: OBSTACLES AND THEIR COST
Delays in procedures have been reduced, although long waits are still common, owing to problems with organization and incentives.
It is estimated that 65% of the cargo crossing the border between Uruguaiana and Pasos de los Libres suffers delays of between 30 and 36 hours, with only a few vehicles experiencing delays of 11 hours or less.
The two strategic points for movement of goods between the three countries are the crossing between Paso de los Libres and Uruguaiana and the triple border between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.
www.eclac.cl /Transporte/noticias/bolfall/9/12389/FAL199.htm   (2231 words)

  
 Uruguaiana, BRA Weather - Forecasts, Radar Maps, Video, and News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Uruguaiana, BRA Weather - Forecasts, Radar Maps, Video, and News
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Get your local forecast with the Windows Live Toolbar and Weather add-in.
weather.msn.com /local.aspx?wealocations=wc:BRXX0254   (80 words)

  
 Worldwide | News Detail
The Uruguaiana power plant, owned and operated by AES, is located in Brazil, near the Argentina border.
It is a 600 MW 2-on-1 combined-cycle plant with two Siemens W501F (now marketed as SGT6-5000F) gas turbines.
AES will upgrade Uruguaiana’s gas turbine control system to Siemens’ SPPA-T3000 systems.
www.dieselpub.com /ww/news_detail.asp?pick=549   (454 words)

  
 Do I Need A Jacket? - The Weather Right Now
The weather in Uruguaiana Aeroporto Brazil and information about Uruguaiana Aeroporto Brazil can be found here.
You should probably look for weather, hotels, flight information and other such city information if you are looking for Uruguaiana Aeroporto Brazil.
All you ever needed to know about Uruguaiana Aeroporto Brazil and it's weather in particular.
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 Rio Grande do Sul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One can visit the states Italian settlements through Caminhos da Colônia, tour the wine country through the Rota da Uva e o Vinho and visit a subsection of the Rota Romântica called the Região das Hortênsias, the region filled with beautiful blue hydrangea flowers each spring.
Porto Alegre (the state capital), Caxias do Sul, Pelotas,Osório,Canoas, São Leopoldo, Novo Hamburgo, Santa Maria, Rio Grande, Passo Fundo, Santa Cruz do Sul, Erechim, Gravataí, Bento Gonçalves, Uruguaiana, Livramento, Gramado, Nova Petropolis, Canela and Bagé.
List of cities in Brazil (all cities and municipalities)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rio_Grande_do_Sul   (1238 words)

  
 Uruguaiana, Rio Grande Do Sul Photographers - Wedding, Portrait, Commercial, Event and Other Photography Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Uruguaiana, Rio Grande Do Sul Photographers - Wedding, Portrait, Commercial, Event and Other Photography Services
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 Argentina, Travel Zeal
Travel from Chile usually involves a hike through the Andes, while overland travel to Bolivia can go through the border towns of La Quiaca, Tarija or Pocitos/Yacuiba.
Paraguay can be reached by bus and/or river launch, and the most common crossing to Brazil is via Foz do Iguaçu or Uruguaiana.
Uruguay is linked to Argentina by road bridges, and ferries sail between Buenos Aires and Colonia in Uruguay.
www.travelzeal.com /south-america/argentina   (515 words)

  
 CNN.com - Brazil steps up foot and mouth prevention efforts - March 21, 2001
Alfredo Bigatti, head of Argentina's national service for health and agricultural food quality, said Tuesday that the government had ruled out any animal slaughter and decided to promote mass immunization.
Brazilian federal authorities are particularly worried about the situation in Uruguaiana, a city located in southern Rio Grande do Sul state, which borders Argentina and Uruguay.
As part of the preventive measures in Uruguaiana, authorities on Wednesday installed an iodine footbath in the city's airport to disinfect the shoes of travelers arriving from Argentina.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/americas/03/21/brazil.foot.mouth   (339 words)

  
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Jim stands with Marisa who runs one of the fuel stations on the main drag in Uruguaiana.
First off we should have thought of the train station, where we ultimately found the decades old, seedy cards.
Simple places in unknown towns can sometimes serve up meals better than any Michelin star-rated joint.
www.millenniumadventure.com /content/stories/story_20010816.cfm   (151 words)

  
 Uruguaiana, Rio Grande Do Sul Illustrators - Illustration Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 Sites near - GeoURL (2.0)
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Current Weather at Uruguaiana Aeroporto, Brazil - World Buddy (0.5 km E) Near Uruguaiana 2 more from worldbuddy.com
Uruguaiana, Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil - glosk (5.6 km NW) Near Uruguaiana 64 more from www.glosk.com
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 Current local time in Uruguaiana - Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
When can I call/have a meeting with someone in Uruguaiana?
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 Robert Scoville's Home Page (Horizon Games)
I served a mission for this church in Santa Maria, Brazil from January 2002 to November 2003.
Santa Maria is a mission which includes the western half of the southern most brazillian state, called "Rio Grande do Sul." In addition to the city of Santa Maria, I also served in Ijuí, Uruguaiana, São Borja, and spent time in São Paulo for training.
Due to this experience, I speak Portuguese and love the people of that region of Brazil.
ucsu.colorado.edu /~scoville/index.html   (294 words)

  
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 TIME.com: Peak Disaster -- Jun. 20, 1949 -- Page 1
Aboard were 13 servicemen, nine civilians including four women and two children, a crew of six.
Plane 2023 was on a routine flight to Porto Alegre and then to Uruguaiana in the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Four minutes after the report, plane 2023 plowed into Cambirela Peak in the foothills of the Serra da Boa Vista.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,800380,00.html   (307 words)

  
 Sites near - GeoURL (2.0)
AOL: Paso de los Libres, CR, AR (Great Circle Airport) Near Uruguaiana 8 more from gc.kls2.com
METAR Site Information for SARL (0.7 km N) Near Uruguaiana 8 more from weather.gladstonefamily.net
Uruguaiana, Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil - glosk (9.5 km SE) Near Uruguaiana 59 more from www.glosk.com
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 Uruguaiana Travel Guide - Uruguaiana Vacations - VirtualTourist.com
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