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Uruguay |
República Oriental del Uruguay (official full name in english Eastern Republic of Uruguay) is a small country placed south from Brasil and east of Argentina, to the south lies the Río de la Plata and to the soth-east lies the Atlantic Ocean. The country is one of the richest countries all around South América and exhibits one of the highest Literacy Rates in Latin America. Moreover, Uruguay is recognized as one of the more concerned countries of the world in preserving the environment. Its continental land has an extension of about 176.215 km2 divided into 19 regions called "departamentos" and its population reaches 3 314 466 inhabitants (according to the 2006 census). The capital is Montevideo, the southest department. Being the smallest department in extension, it houses 40% of the conutry's population.
Tourism Uruguay |
Uruguay is rounded by 650 km of beaches, in which extension you can find several types of sand, sweet or salad waters, desert beaches as well as intensely populated. Main international resort in Uruguay is Punta del Este (Maldonado department), named Touristic Capital of Mercosur and worldwide recognized as the main beach resort in South America. Even when most of international tourists visit the country during the summer months, especially January and February, the Uruguay has developed a number of touristic attractions for the whole year and extended to most departments. Has 6 thermal springs with both sweet and salty waters located on the west coast of the country (departments of Salto and Paysandu), centers of cultural-historical tourism, wich most prominent example is Colonia del Sacramento city, the only city founded by the Portuguese settlers on the 18 th century, by the western coast in the Rio de la Plata and declared by the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. Uruguay also has several proposals for ecotourism and agrotourism in almost all departments, from rural places for camping and adventure tourism to accommodation establishments in the countryside for a long stay or just to spend the day.
More about travel in Uruguay:
Uruguayan Ministry of Tourism and Sports
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Traveling along Uruguay |
Unlike many cities around the world, Uruguay has no trains nor subway transport, neither to move from one side to another inside Montevideo nor from one department to another else. However, buses will ride you everywhere because of a well developed net of piublic transport. You can get all the information you need about buses, frequencies and ticket rates checking the site of Tres Cruces bus station.
On special events or religious pilgrimages, there are special train services. In that case you will find the information here in our site Club de Turistas.
For groups of several tourists best option is to take advice at your hotel about hiring a mini bus service for special destinations.
For your presence of mind Uruguay shows one of the highest safetiness in the region, so you can unconcernedly walk over the streets even at nights, take any taxi cab without worrying about being fooled or just rent a car at one of the several companies available.
Visiting Uruguay you can eat high quality meat (considered the best of the world) without "crazy cow" nor aftose from grass-fed cows, drink water and milk with confidence, and to live like in a farm... Uruguay is still natural.
Map of Uruguay |
| Here you have a routes map to know how to acced to Uruguay from border countries and how to move through from one city to another. Of course, we only indicate main routes so you should get one more detailed map to travel safer. |
We also include a map powered by Google Maps to give a bit more information. In order to look for one specific place in the map you shoulde place the selected region in the center of the map's square and then click on "+" button to close the map. We recommend to make zoom step by step for you to don't loose geographical references. All the ways if you loose yourself you can move away (clicking on "-") and start again |
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Embassies and Consulates in Uruguay |
All Embassies and Consulates listed below are located in capital city Montevideo, so it won't be mentioned in addresses. About the telephone numbers, if you are calling from other countries you must add prefix 598 2. If you are already in Uruguay but outside Montevideo, prefix is only 02.
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Address: La Cumparsita 1417 Tel.: 902 52 22 Tel.: 902 81 66 Tel.: 901 07 43 Tel.: 708 35 73 / 709 93 29 Tel.: 707 21 19 Address: Marco Bruto 1073 Tel.: 622 36 30 Tel.: 902 20 30 Tel.: 916 40 90 / 915 52 05 Tel.: 623 28 03 / 623 28 04 |
Address: Libertad 2738 Tel.: 708 60 10
Address: Lauro Muller 1776 Tel.: 418 77 77 Tel.: 622 26 41 Address: Uruguay 853 Tel.: 902 00 77 / 902 00 78 Netherlands Embassy in Uruguay Address: Leyenda Patria 2880 / 2º piso Tel.: 711 29 56
Tel.: 916 08 96
Mexico Embassy in Uruguay Tel.: 916 85 00 / 916 31 20
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New Zealand Consulate in Uruguay Tel.: 622 15 43 Paraguay Embassy in Uruguay Tel.: 707 20 10 Tel.: 707 68 62 - 709 72 08 Tel.: 708 40 61 / 707 88 91 Tel.: 622 08 76 / 622 06 85 Tel.: 708 38 79
/ 708 18 84 Tel.: 711 55 45
Tel.: 622 12 62 / 622 12 88 |
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Airlines |
Below we listed the operative airlines in Carrasco International Airport (MVD). Although many of these airlines are located also outside the airport, we are only listing here airport telephone numbers, to asist the tourist about flights.
You can also check Carrasco International Airport web site, just in case.
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Tel: 604 03 47
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Copa Airlines |
Pluna |
Other interesting sites |