San José Department
- 34.351388888889 - 56.728611111111Koordinaten: 34 ° 21 ' S, 56 ° 44 ' W
San José is a department in Uruguay.
- 4.1 Education
- 4.2 traffic
- 4.3 Economics
Geography
Location and landscape
The expansion of an area of 4992 km ² comprising the department is located in the southwest of the country and is bounded to the south by the Río de la Plata. In the north of the department of Flores borders. The local boundary line in parts made of Arroyo San Gregorio. To the west lies the Department of Colonia. As a natural boundary line is used mainly by the Arroyo Cufré. East close to both the northern part of the largely shaped by the Arroyo del la Virgen Departamento limit Florida as well as in the southern part of the eastern border of Canelones. The second part of the area separation function of this boundary portion is transferred to the Río Santa Lucía from the mouth of Arroyo de la Virgen from the latter. Its lower reaches finally separates the areas of San José and Montevideo each other. That's like all of Uruguay by numerous smaller rivers criss-crossed Departamentogebiet is crossed from north to south from the Río San José. While extending the northern Departamentogebiet from west to east Cuchilla Pavón, Cuchilla de San José, Cuchilla Chamizo, Cuchilla del Tala and Cuchilla Carreta Quemada, the southern area of Cuchilla Pavón, Cuchilla Pereira, Cuchilla San Miguel and Cuchilla Mangrullo is crossed.
Mineral resources
Only in the north-western part of the department at Guaycurú exist manganese deposits. In the southeast, near the kilometer point 37 of the Ruta 1 is Limos deposits to find.
History
San Jose was the scene of important events in the history of Uruguay. On June 1, 1783, first founded captain Eusebio Vidal here with Asturian settlers first branch. First appeared on November 22, 1828 in San José in the context of Uruguayan independence process, the Asamblea General Constituyente y Legislativa ( Primera Asamblea General Constituyente ) together. Later, the area of the department was among other things, on December 29, 1839 site of the Battle of the Arroyo cagancha cagancha. The confrontation took place between the troops Fructuoso Rivera and those Pascual Echagües.
Population
The department is one of the areas with the greatest population density of Uruguay. While in 2004 103 104 inhabitants were counted, was found in the context of the census of 2011, population 108 309. Of these, 53 998 men and 54 311 women. In those in the interior of the department capital, San José de Mayo live 36 339 ( as of 2004) people. Second largest city has long Delta del Tigre with 17,457 inhabitants ( 2004) (not to be confused with the Argentinean place Tigre ). Meanwhile, it has been grouped together with the surrounding villages on the basis of the Ley N º 18 052 in the year 2006 Ciudad del Plata. This second major metropolitan area of San José is located in the southeastern tip of the department on the coast of the Río de la Plata. Besides these two major settlement areas, the population spread over a number of smaller towns such as Libertad, Rodríguez, Ecilda Paullier and numerous smaller towns.
Infrastructure
Education
San Jose has a total of eight secondary schools ( Liceos ), in which 6,903 students are taught by 580 teachers. The oldest Liceo of the department is based in the capital of the department of San José de Mayo, founded in 1913, Liceo N ° 1 Departamental Instituto " Dr. Alfonso Espínola ". (As of December 2008)
Traffic
Transport Infrastructural San José is especially developed by the department in the east-west direction crossing Ruta 1 and the branching away to the North Route 3. San Jose - - In addition, the railway line Montevideo Colonia leads through San Jose.
Economy
In San José grown wine, especially Tannat.
Policy
The leadership of the executive branch of the department, the Office of Intendente, holds José Luis Falero of the Partido Nacional.