Cerro Largo Department

- 32.442777777778 - 54.329166666667Koordinaten: 32 ° 27 ' S, 54 ° 20 ' W

Cerro Largo is a department of Uruguay.

• 4.1 Education
• 4.2 traffic

Geography

Location

It lies in the east of the country, bordering the departments Rivera, Tacuarembó, Durazno and Treinta y Tres and to Brazil.

Landscape

The hills Cuchilla Grande crosses the department and divides the catchment area of ​​the Río Negro in the northwest of the department from the catchment area of ​​the Laguna Merín in the southeast.

The area to the south is hilly and covered with a carpet crystalline rocks in the north and center of the landscape is rather rugged and steep. This is due to the situated therein Cuchilla Grande - a large mountain range that extends from the northeast to the southeast and in turn branch into other smaller mountain ranges such as the Cuchilla de Mangrullo and Cuchilla de Cerro Largo, to then highlight as Cerro de Tupambaé. La Cuchilla Grande forms a watershed that separates the basin of the lagoon Merín the Río Negro.

Mineral resources

In the Estancia El Aguila in the southeast of the department of petroleum resources are available. Furthermore, in Fraile Muerto exist uranium deposits. Bañado de Medina has montmorillonite.

Settlement structure

Besides the capital Melo, with 50 578 more than half the population of the department live in, is another important city of Rio Branco ( 13,456 inhabitants), on the border with Brazil, which is opposite to the Brazilian city Yaguarón. Founded around 1831, it was first called Villa de San Servando, then Villa de Artigas and only since 1910 Rio Branco. Here were all the goods that were imported from Europe and Brazil, duty paid. Furthermore, other larger settlements as Fraile Muerto, Isidoro Noblía, Aceguá and Tupambaé located on the premises of the department.

Population

While in 2004 86 564 inhabitants were counted, was found in the context of the census of 2011, population 84 698. Of these, 41,050 men and 43,648 women.

Policy

The leadership of the executive branch of the department, the Office of Intendente, holds Sergio Botana of the Partido Nacional.

Infrastructure

Education

Cerro Largo has a total of six secondary schools ( Liceos ), in which 6,888 students are taught by 477 teachers. Half of Liceos located in the Departamento Capital Melo, in which was founded in 1912 with the Liceo N º 1 Departamental " Juana de Ibarbourou " the oldest of the department is located. (As of December 2008)

Traffic

In the area of the department is situated close to the airport Melo Cerro Largo a connection to the air traffic. Through the department leads the train track Montevideo - Nico Pérez - Río Branco and Montevideo - Nico Pérez - Melo. Furthermore, the department of the following roads will in any case partly traversed Ruta 7, 8 Ruta, Ruta 18 and Ruta 26