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	Uruguay (country) - MSN Encarta
		Uruguay was a part of the colonial empire of Spain in the Americas until the early 1800s.
		Uruguay’s land is a transition zone between the Pampas plains of Argentina and the hilly uplands of Brazil.
		The Uruguay River, which forms the country’s western border, joins the Paraná River at the Atlantic Ocean, forming an estuary between Uruguay and its neighbor to the south, Argentina.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568731/Uruguay_(country).html (545 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: An Overview of the Economic History of Uruguay since the 1870s
		Without silver or gold, without valuable species, scarcely peopled by gatherers and fishers, the Eastern Strand of the Uruguay River (Banda Oriental was the colonial name; República Oriental del Uruguay is the official name today) was, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, distant and unattractive to the European nations that conquered the region.
		Uruguay was on the border between the Spanish and Portuguese empires, a feature which would be decisive for the creation, with strong British involvement, in 1828-1830, of an independent state.
		Uruguay's strong initial position tended to deteriorate in relation to the successful core countries during the late 1800s, as shown in Figure 2.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/Bertola.Uruguay.final (2412 words)

	COUNTRIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Uruguay (Spanish Rep?lica Oriental del Uruguay), republic, east central South America, second smallest country on the continent, bounded on the north by Brazil, on the east by Brazil and the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean and the R? de la Plata, and on the west by Argentina.
		Land and Resources Uruguay has 193 km (120 mi) of Atlantic coastline and 813 km (505 mi) of frontage along its boundary rivers, including 435 km (270 mi) on the Uruguay River and 378 km (235 mi) on its estuary, the R? de la Plata.
		In the north and northwest is a low plateau, the Cuchilla de Haedo, diversified by ridges of hills that rise to an extreme height of 377 m (1237 ft) above sea level.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/LatinAmerica/eritha/euruguay.html (293 words)

	OAS Children's Page
		Uruguay is one of the smallest countries in South America; it lies on the Atlantic coast between Brazil in the northeast and Argentina in the west.
		The Republic of Uruguay lies in the Western Hemisphere between longitudes 53 and 58, and in the subtropical zone between latitudes 30 and 35 South.
		Uruguay is separated from Argentina by the Rio de la Plata in the South and by the Rio Uruguay in the West.
	www.oas.org /children/members/Uruguay.htm (620 words)

	Uruguay - Extended information
		Uruguay (country) (Spanish República Oriental del Uruguay), republic in east central South America, second smallest country on the continent, bounded on the north by Brazil, on the east by Brazil and the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean and the Río de la Plata, and on the west by Argentina.
		Uruguay is a highly urbanized country, even though its economy is based largely on agriculture, particularly livestock raising, which flourishes on the rolling plains of the countryside.
		The principal cities of Uruguay are Montevideo (population, 1996, 1,378,707), the country's capital, chief port, and economic center; Salto (117,597), a center of commerce, shipping, and the meat-salting and meat-packing industries; and Paysandú (111,509), a port and center of the meat-packing and frozen-meat industries.
	www.wool.com.uy /uruguay2.htm (5449 words)

	Chapter 4. MIGRATORY FISHES OF THE URUGUAY RIVER: International Development Research Centre
		The Uruguay River rises in the Serra Geral Mountains as the Pelotas River, near the southern coast of Brazil, at an altitude of approximately 1,800 m.
		For the purpose of this study the beginning of the Uruguay River is considered to be the confluence of the Canoas and the Pelotas rivers 1,816 km from the mouth.
		The Uruguay is the youngest river of the Plata watershed.
	www.idrc.ca /en/ev-58878-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html (9913 words)

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		It notes that Uruguay stated that it “had fully complied with the 1975 Statute of the River Uruguay throughout the period in which this case has developed” and argued that Argentina’s request was unfounded and that the requisite circumstances for a request for provisional measures were entirely lacking.
		Uruguay pointed out that the mills would not be operational before August 2007 and June 2008 respectively, and that a number of further conditions would have to be met before that stage was reached.
		Uruguay concluded that, even if it were to be considered that the operation of the mills might lead to “the contamination of the river”, the gravity of the “alleged peril to Argentina” was not “sufficiently certain or immediate as to satisfy the Court’s requirement that it be ‘imminent’ or urgent”.
	www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/ipresscom/ipress2006/ipresscom_2006-2_au_summary_20060713.htm (3111 words)

	Uruguay - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Uruguay (country) country on the southeastern coast of South America between Brazil and Argentina.
		Uruguay (river), river in central South America, rising in the coastal range of southern Brazil.
		- river in SE South America: river in southeastern South America, rising in southern Brazil and entering the Atlantic Ocean through the Río de la Plata.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Uruguay.html (118 words)

	Uruguay - Gurupedia
		The work of Presiden Battle y Ordonez made or Uruguay and avanced nation with a complex welfare system; and for the most part of the 20th century Uruguay was on par with European nation.
		Due to its advanced social system and its stable democracy, Uruguay came to be known as "the Switzerland of America".Communists guerillas broke out in the late 1960 and the state of emergency was enacted by President Pacheco Areco in 1968.
		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 developped industrial sector.
	www.gurupedia.com /u/ur/uruguay.htm (989 words)

	Where is Uruguay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The river Uruguay, which flows into the River Plate, constitutes the dividing line of this province, separating it from Argentina proper.
		Uruguay had scarcely 74,000 inhabitants; its main economic resources, livestock and land, were concentrated in the hands of a few families who had acquired economic empires in the countryside during the colonial period.
		Uruguay earned the reputation of having the highest ratio of political prisoners to population in the world.
	www.apol.net /dightonrock/where_is_uruguay.htm (2174 words)

	Napa Valley Register \| Construction of paper mills to continue on Uruguay River
		Uruguay's ambassador to The Hague, Carlos Mora, said he was pleased with the outcome, which his country had anticipated.
		Uruguay says the mills are being built to the highest international standards and will not contaminate the Uruguay River.
		Uruguay is building the mills in Fray Bentos, a town of some 23,000 people about 15 miles from Gualeguaychu, an Argentine tourist resort with 80,000 residents.
	www.napavalleyregister.com /articles/2006/07/14/business/stories_from_ap/iq_3515525.txt (777 words)

	URUGUAY-ARGENTINA: Pulp Mill Conflict Hits Tourism
		Local residents across the river in Argentina, environmentalists and provincial and national authorities in Argentina are worried about the risk of pollution posed by the plants and the potential impact on tourism and fishing.
		Uruguay plans to promote the pulp industry, a new undertaking for this country, as one of the main engines of development, which means it would make no sense "to be so arrogant or careless as to say 'I'm not listening'," Ponce de León told IPS.
		Although the conflict between Argentina and Uruguay, which are extremely close in historical and cultural terms, is the worst they have experienced in decades, sources with the centre-left Kirchner administration interviewed by IPS underlined that the presidents of the two countries are friends, and that the two governments have shared socioeconomic objectives.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=31644 (1723 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Uruguay 'strangled' by Argentina
		Uruguay has accused Argentina of turning a blind eye to protests over a planned pulp mill near their border which are "strangling" the economy.
		The protests at the three international bridges on the Uruguay river were aimed at "forcing an end to construction", said ambassador Hector Gros Espiell.
		Mr Espiell, Uruguay's ambassador to France, told the UN tribunal at The Hague that Uruguay was confronted by an urgent crisis.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/6190665.stm (277 words)

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		In the late afternoon of 4 May 2006 Argentina seised the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of a dispute between itself and Uruguay concerning alleged breaches by Uruguay of obligations incumbent upon it under the Statute of the River Uruguay, a treaty signed by Argentina and Uruguay on 26 February 1975 (hereinafter “the 1975 Statute”).
		The purpose of that Statute is “to establish the joint machinery necessary for the optimum and rational utilization of the River Uruguay”, which is shared by the two States and partially constitutes their joint boundary.
		According to the Application, Uruguay has in fact “aggravated the dispute” by subsequently authorizing the construction in the same area of a second pulp mill and of a port for that mill.
	www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/ipresscom/ipress2006/ipresscom_2006-17_au_20060504.htm (753 words)

	U.N. court to rule on dispute over pulp mills on Uruguay River
		The dispute has for months strained relations between the neighbors, sparking blockades by angry Argentinean protesters of bridges over the Uruguay River and a demonstration by a bikini-clad Argentinean woman at a summit in Vienna between EU and Latin American leaders.
		Uruguay says the mills -- the biggest foreign investment project in the country's history -- are being built to the highest international standards and will not contaminate the Uruguay River.
		Uruguay has temporarily halted work on the mills but says further delays to the project would deal the country's economy a catastrophic blow.
	www.uswaternews.com /archives/arcglobal/6u.n.cour7.html (380 words)

	Uruguay-Argentina: A huge demonstration against pulp mills
		Uruguay, a territory blessed by a profuse hydrological network, with soils extending over part of the Guaraní; aquifer – one of the largest aquifers in the world – bears the “natural country” logo.
		In fact, before handing over power in March 2005, the outgoing government authorized the installation of two enormous pulp mills on the banks of the Uruguay River, a river that runs along the whole western frontier of the country, separating it from its neighbour, Argentina, which shares the river with Uruguay.
		It is also true that Uruguay is going through a special situation of political change that has, to a great measure, implied a recovery of hope.
	www.wrm.org.uy /bulletin/94/Uruguay_Argentina.htm (729 words)

	ASIL Insights:Argentina-Uruguay Environmental Border Dispute Before the World Court
		According to Uruguay, the available environmental studies into the cumulative impact of the mills in terms of atmospheric emissions and liquid effluents demonstrate that the impact will not be such as to meet the threshold for triggering the notification requirements involving CARU.
		Uruguay might counter Argentina’s request for provisional measures by submitting a request asking the ICJ to order Argentina to enforce its laws prohibiting the blocking of roads and bridges and to prevent any blockages pending the Court’s final judgment in the case.
		Uruguay also could file one or more counterclaims as part of its Counter-Memorial, provided they fall within the Court’s jurisdiction and are directly connected with Argentina’s claim in the main case.
	www.asil.org /insights/2006/05/insights060516.html (2240 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.
		Other similar study performed in Rio de la Plata and programme of monitoring and control on Uruguay River was published in 1992 by Chemical Engineer Juan Miguel Moyano Recine in its paper "Pesticides residues in rivers and seas" (13) and the results of organochlorates in Uruguay River showed in the table XXII.
		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.
	www.headlice.org /lindane/_world/countries/uruguay.htm (3265 words)

	Uruguay: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		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.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108124.html (771 words)

	C.I.A.R.U. - Rock Art Abstracts
		The Uruguay river to the north, ran along the spacious valley that could be seen from the heights of the river bank, being just 20 mts.
		Complex societies of horticulturists and fishermen established and prospered on the mouth of the Uruguay river and Negro river.
		This abstract only attempts to be a big preamble to an extense as well as a complex prehistory of Uruguay, where humans, environment, fauna and flora have changed along more than 100 centuries, providing multiple answers and novel solutions to the only reality that has perdured: change.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Parthenon/6994/articuli.htm (1832 words)

	Uruguay, river, South America. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Its chief headstream is the Pelotas of S Brazil; the Río Negro of S Brazil and Uruguay is an important tributary.
		The lower river is navigable for oceangoing vessels for 130 mi (209 km) upstream.
		Concordia, Argentina, and Salto and Paysandú, Uruguay, are on the river.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ur/UruguayR.html (156 words)

	Argentina, Uruguay At Loggerheads Over Pulp Mills on Shared River
		A heated dispute between Argentina and Uruguay over two pulp mill projects, currently under construction on the eastern shore of the Uruguay River, a natural resource shared by both countries, has both governments steaming.
		For its part, Uruguay has filed a claim with the Secretary General of the Organization of American States and invoked the Olivos Protocol within the framework of the MERCOSUR trade agreement to seek a political solution.
		Argentina complains that Uruguay authorized the construction of the pulp mills and of a port for the exclusive use of one of them without following the mechanism of consultation and prior information agreed by both countries in the treaty of 1975 on the Statute of the Uruguay River.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/may2006/2006-05-09-04.asp (1131 words)

	Treaty between the United States of America and Mexico relating to the waters of the Rio Grande (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The cost of the works which are not undertaken jointly, comprising mainly access and auxiliary facilities and transmission lines, and of compensation and expropriation to be effected in the territory of each country, shall de borne by the respective Governments.
		The cost of the works and installations required for the purposes of navigation upstream of the dam shall be borne by each country in proportion to its use of them, having regard to their respective zones of influence, the extent of the river bank and probable traffic.
		The High Contracting Parties agree that permission for the use and diversion, whether temporarily or permanently, of the waters of the Uruguay River and its tributaries upstream of the dam shall be granted by the Governments only within their respective jurisdictions and after a report by the Mixed Technical Commission.
	www.internationalwaterlaw.org /RegionalDocs/Uruguay-River.htm (1839 words)

	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.
		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.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/uy.html (508 words)

	The World Bank Tuesday agreed to :: ENN
		Uruguay suggested one way to mend the rift would be to allow local communities from both cities to monitor environmental and other standards at the Orion plant.
		The Orion mill, which is the largest foreign investment in Uruguay's history, is expected to add more than 2 percentage points to Uruguay's GDP, increase exports by 8 percent and add around 12,000 jobs during the construction phase.
		Uruguay said the "plant poses no risk whatsoever to the health or livelihood of the populations on both sides of the Uruguay River".
	www.enn.com /today.html?id=11701&ref=rss (799 words)

	IngentaConnect Dispersal of forest birds and trees along the Uruguay River in so...
		The Uruguay River starts in Serra do Mar in Brazil runs through the Paranense forest and flows southward through grassland and savannas.
		A hundred and eighty forest tree species were recorded in the southern Paranense forest, of which 113 (62.8%) penetrate into the gallery forest of the Uruguay River, and 28 (15.6%) reach Punta Lara.
		The Uruguay River enables the dispersal of many species of forest birds and trees from the rain forest, but species richness tends to decrease with increased distance from the source area.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/bsc/ddi/2005/00000011/00000003/art00004 (433 words)

	Uruguay Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		Built between 1771 and 1797, the Cuartel de Dragones y de Blandengues is a block of military fortifications.
		Uruguay may be pint-sized, but it's certainly big-hearted when it comes to attractions.
		It contains one of South America's most interesting capitals, charming colonial towns, the hilly interior (true gaucho country) and a cluster of internationally renowned beach resorts.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/south-america/uruguay (128 words)

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