Baltasar Brum, Artigas

Baltasar Brum on the map of Uruguay

Baltasar Brum is a town in northwestern Uruguay.

Geography

Baltasar Brum is in the area of the department of Artigas just 50 kilometers east of the Río Uruguay in its eighth sector. North of the village are the towns of Bella Unión and Tomás Gomensoro. The place is located in a valley of the Cuchilla de Belén.

History

A first colonization of the originally the name Isla Cabello supporting village took place at the beginning of the 19th century. The first settlers were mostly Creoles and Blandengues soldiers later were added to such Italian, Russian and German origin. Former Isla Cabello belonged to the estate of Yapeyú ( Estancia de Yapeyú ), now the Argentine city of Paso de los Libres. In 1900 the first school was built on the spot. On November 1, 1932, place the status Pueblo was then granted by Law No. 8,907. In the 1940s, the local infrastructure grew with the Erföffnung a polyclinic ( Policlínica ) and a branch of the Banco República, and the establishment of a post office. At that time the town was also connected to the power and water supply and the telephone network. Got its name, the city later in honor of the eponymous former Uruguayan President Baltasar Brum. In the 1980s, they began in the area around Baltasar Brum with rice cultivation. In this decade, the foundation of the football club Club Central de Fútbol and the Erföffnung a Liceo fell.

Infrastructure

Education

Baltasar Brum has with the established in 1988 Liceo Área Rural Baltasar Brum via a secondary school ( Liceo ).

Population

Baltasar Brum has 2531 inhabitants (as of 2011) and is thus in terms of the number of inhabitants currently the fourth largest city of the department.

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay

City ​​council

Mayor ( alcalde ) of Baltasar Brum is José Lachaise.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Néstor Gonçalves (1936 - ), football player
  • Alba Roballo (1910-1996), lawyer and politician, first female Minister of South America
  • Amilcar Vasconcellos ( born 1915 ), writer and politician
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