Cuchilla Grande

The Cuchilla Grande ( in German: sharp ridge or edge of a knife ) is up to 540 meters, the most important hills in Uruguay.

The hills Cuchilla Grande enters from the north as a continuation of the Serra Geral of Brazil into the country in and pervades the same southeasterly direction south-west to about 34 ° latitude. They dominated the southeastern part of the country and extends to the southern Atlantic coast of Maldonado. The highest points in the hills can be found in the north on the border with Brazil. Further inland, the Cuchillas decrease more and more, and appear mostly as wavy hills or low ridge-shaped rock features. In the far south east immediately closes the narrow ridge of the Sierra Carapé to ​​, in which there is the highest point of Uruguay with the Cerro Catedral. Here the appearance is like mountain again and the surveys almost reach the same heights as the border with Brazil.

The Cuchilla Grande forms with its south-western branches a watershed because it separates the basin of the largest river, the Rio Negro from the flowing rivers to the Atlantic Ocean. Many rivers originate here, such as the Río Olimar, the Río Olimar Chico, the Rio Yi, the Río Tacuarí, the Arroyo del Chuy Tacuarí, the Arroyo Grande Canelón, the Arroyo Fraile Muerto, the Arroyo Solís Chico, the Arroyo Grande Yerbal or Arroyo de Godoy.

• Mountains in Uruguay
• Mountains in South America