Chuy

Chuy on the map of Uruguay

Chuy is a small town in the South American country Uruguay.

Geographical, economic and infrastructural Description

It lies in the east of the country in the department of Rocha directly in the border with Brazil. The trunk road from Montevideo to Porto Alegre Brazil goes through the village. Together with the city, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul something smaller community Chuí it forms a border town with correspondingly brisk trade. On the border between the two districts Calle Internacional, which belongs to a half to Uruguay and the other to Brazil runs. Chuy is only 15 km from the Atlantic Ocean, and the northern hinterland is located a similar distance to the Lagoa Mirim. Tourism is in addition to trading the second economic pillar of the city dar. Numerous duty- free shops offer Brazilian travelers spirits, cosmetics, clothing, luxury items, and the like. Finally, in the Uruguayan Chuy a casino; on the Brazilian side is not allowed to gamble.

Population

Their population was at the last census ( in 2011 ) 9,675, of which 4,608 male and 5,067 female population.

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History

The name comes from the Chuy according to most experts the Tupi- Guarani languages ​​that have already spoken in the period before the European discovery and colonization in the region. He described initially only the small stream ( Arroyo Chuy ) on whose banks the town later developed. In recent years, anthropologists have around several grave sites and other evidence of an early, relatively sophisticated culture, their families, the area around the year 500 BC inhabited discovered. They lived among other things, from hunting and fishing in the Atlantic and the nearby lagoons and already dominated the pottery.

In February or March 1502 for the first time passed an expedition under Amerigo Vespucci the mouth of the Arroyo Chuy; she explored by the Portuguese crown the hitherto completely unknown coast of South America ( the state in this area, according to the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 Spain). A permanent settlement of European settlers in the region but should not begin until much later. At the beginning of the 17th century, the livestock was introduced in Uruguay and in the following decades, Portugal and Spain established to safeguard their interests several towns and fortresses in the region. By the Treaty of Madrid ( 1750) and San Ildefonso (1777 ) put Portugal and Spain finally the mutual limits of its colonial possessions in South America and from the area of Chuy became the borderland. Around the year 1751 around let the governor of Montevideo along the border with Brazil to build various military border posts in strategic places, one of them was La guardia del Chuy. The Portuguese side addressed a guard at a Chuy. Among the main features of the border stations included in this time the anti-smuggling and the safety of the settlers and travelers in the region.

A few years after the founding of the border post also civilian inhabitants were first down at the military station; a map of 1775 shows Chuy first time as a village. During the 19th century, the livestock gained in the region more important and it emerged on both the Uruguayan and on the Brazilian side of the border new estancias. The intensive use and denser colonization of the area meant that by mid-century the state border in the area of Chuy was marked and measured precisely by boundary stones for the first time. A first time in a plot of 1861 Uncharted general store ( pulpería ) founded Chuys today standing tradition as a trading. The import of goods from Brazil by local merchants won in the next few years more and more important. The establishment of a first school in this period underlines the growing central place function Chuys. From 1872, led a telegraph line between Montevideo and Brazil through the town. 1879 Chuy got his court and in the following year a customs office. In 1888 the growing village was officially charged by the higher authorities to the community.

After the development Chuys had stagnated in the early 20th century, at times, emerged in the 1930s, several new buildings again, including the first gas station of the place, which supplied the increasing number of traveling and local motorists. Also has its own local newspaper and a polyclinic decreed Chuy at this time. At that time, tourism gradually became more important; Chuy was already connected to the bus and served as a gateway to the beaches on the nearby Atlantic coast. In 1936, according to official data there were about 1,300 people in the community. Mid -1940s, the modern highway ( Route 9 ) of Montevideo was completed by Chuy; from then on went daily buses from the capital to the border town and vice versa. Important milestones of development in the 50s were the construction of public drinking water network and the establishment of a high school as well as the establishment of a Catholic chapel; 1956 was one of Chuy already 2500 inhabitants. A further stage of dynamic development of the town presented the collection to the market town in 1961 dar. Since the 1960s, settled reinforced Arab and Asian traders in Chuy on; they are becoming an important factor in the local economy.

City ​​council

Mayor ( Alcalde ) of Chuy is Mary Urse.