Artigas, Uruguay

Artigas on the map of Uruguay

Artigas is the capital of the department in Uruguay.

Location

It is located right on the Brazilian border in the north of Uruguay, 601 kilometers from the capital, Montevideo.

Climate

Population

Artigas has 40 658 inhabitants (as of 2011).

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay

History

The city was founded on September 12, 1852 by Don Carlos Catala under the name of San Eugenio del Cuareim. In 1915 she received then the name of the Uruguayan José Gervasio Artigas national hero and was considered by the law Nr.5330 in the category " Ciudad " on 31 August of the same year.

Economy

Artigas is a center for the trade of cereals ( mainly maize ) to Argentina and Brazil. There is an airport, Aeropuerto Internacional de Artigas, and a train station, which serve mainly economic purposes. The mountain slopes and banks in Artigas are great sites for precious stones, agates and amethysts especially. It has randomly found these stones in 1860 in the area of Artigas and then they started to reduce. To this day jewelry stones are mined. From these stones souvenirs and handicrafts are manufactured and exported all over the world.

Infrastructure

Education

Artigas has a total of four secondary schools ( Liceo ). These are the be settled in Barrio Centro Liceo N º 1 Departamental, which was founded in 1913 and is thus the oldest Liceo of the department and the co-located Liceo N º 4 (date of incorporation: April 13, 2000). They also include the Liceo N ° 2 in Barrio San Miguel (19 June 1978) and the Liceo N º 3 " Maestro Profesor Valeriano Renart " (1997) in Barrio 25 de Agosto.

Traffic

Infrastructural developed is the city on the Ruta 30 and 4, and on the west of the city airport.

Attractions

One of the main attractions of Artigas is the bridge de la Concordia, which is 750 meters long and was inaugurated in 1968. It connects with Artigas Quaraí over the river Cuareim. From beginning to end, as a sign of the union of the two cities - At this bridge the Avenida Lecueder that runs through the whole city closes.

Twinning

• Chile Arica, Chile

Sons and daughters of the town

• Patricia Ayala (born 1966 ), politician
• Joe Bizera, ( born 1980 ), football player
• Carlos Bueno ( born 1980 ), football player
• Juan José de Mello ( born 1953 ), singer
• Eladio Dieste (1917-2000), architect
• Rubén Paz ( born 1959 ), football player
• Venancio Ramos ( born 1959 ), football player
• José Pintos Saldanha (born 1964 ), football player
• Mario Saralegui ( born 1959 ), football player