Carrasco (Montevideo)

Carrasco is a neighborhood ( barrio ) of the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo.

Location and geography

The lying on the coast of the Río de la Plata district is located on the southeastern outskirts of Montevideo. To the west lies the district of Punta Gorda, the Avenida Bolivia, the two barrios from each other. In the north, Carrasco Norte includes predominantly on behind there verlaufenen Avenida Italia and east of the Arroyo Carrasco forming the border to Nachbardepartamento Canelones. In the south, the Rambla Tomas Berreta runs along the shore of the vast river of the Playa Carrasco located there.

Population

Currently, here are 16,386 inhabitants recorded (as of 2005).

History

The name of the neighborhood is due to Salvador Sebastián Carrasco, one of the first inhabitants of Montevideo, the Estancia was located in this area. Carrasco was born, as well as the Hotel Casino Carrasco as the main building of the district, from a purely private initiative. This was up to this time, the first project of its kind in Uruguay, was both the urban planning and the design of a whole district exclusively from private sources in the. The initiative came from a in the corporation ( sociedad anónima ) Balneario de Carrasco combined group of pioneers. The design of the garden district, which initially served as a summer residence in his early days, was by the Frenchman Charles Thays. During the First World War, the work begun in 1912 came to a halt in terms of the hotel, so that finally the city of Montevideo took over the further execution. 1921, the hotel was finally opened. The same year also saw the completion of the church.

Description

In Carrasco, which serves as a residential area for the upper class, there are about since 1975, the Monumento Histórico Nacional classified as Hotel Casino Carrasco or the Iglesia Stella Maris. The Escuela Naval has its headquarters here Furthermore, here south of the Plaza Alfredo Gribaldi Oddo, the west of the already Nachbardepartamento Carrasco Norte lying Plaza Ellis is, both the Japanese and settled the Chinese embassy residence. Other places in Parque Carrasco they are Gabriel Terra, Plaza Thais, the Plaza Vieja and Plaza Conaprole Lieja. In addition, located in the southeast west of the Arroyo Carrasco adjacent to the approximately 16 -hectare Parque Gral. Juan A. Lavalleja where the sports facility was founded on June 7, 1922 Club Banco República is.

Education

Several educational institutions are located in Carrasco. This includes, among other things, The Anglo School of Instituto Cultural Anglo Uruguayan in the Calle de Rodríguez Saldun 2195th on 6 February 2001 opened this bilingual private school that resides since 2007 in what is now building and now has 500 pupils. Another private school in Carrasco is founded in 1995 and in March of the following year opened Woodlands School, corner of Calle San Carlos de Bolívar / Calle Havre.

Other institutions

• Fuerza Aerea Club
• Centro Gallego
• Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club