Uruguay GEOGRAPHY
Figure 3. Topography and Drainage
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Figure 4. Average Population Density
Based on information from Uruguay, Direccion General de Estadistica y Censos, Anuario estadistico, 1988, Montevido, 1989.
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Dairy farm families near Treinta y Tres
Courtesy Inter-American Development Bank
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
(see
fig. 1). It is bounded on
the
west by Argentina, on the north and northeast by Brazil,
and on
the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean. To the south, it
fronts the
Río de la Plata, a broad estuary that opens out into the
South
Atlantic. Montevideo, the capital and major port, sits on
the
banks of the Río de la Plata and is on approximately the
same
latitude as Capetown and Sydney. Uruguay is the smallest
Spanishspeaking nation in South America with a land area of
176,220
square kilometers, slightly smaller than North Dakota.
Data as of December 1990
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