Lavalleja Department

- 33.9275 - 54.96Koordinaten: 33 ° 56 ' S, 54 ° 58 ' W

Lavalleja is a department in Uruguay.

  • 2.1 Origin of the name
  • 3.1 Education
  • 3.2 Economics

Geography

Location and landscape

The expansion of an area of 10,016 km ² comprising the department located in the central east of the country. It is characterized by wooded hills with low mountain ranges such as the Sierra de las Animas. In the north- west is the Cuchilla Grande, the main ridge of Uruguay.

Settlement structure

Its capital Minas has 38 446 inhabitants (as of 2011) and concentrated over 60 % of the inhabitants of the department. If you leave the city of Minas and the Ruta 8 follows, you come at kilometer 145 on the entrance to Villa Serrana. This place was founded in the mid 19th century and is located in a millennial forest, and the venue has an exceptional landscape frame. Other towns of the department, for example, José Pedro Varela, Solís de Mataojo, José Batlle y Ordóñez and Mariscala.

Mineral resources

On the Departamentogebiet marble deposits are present in Polanco. Other mineral resources are located at Barriga Negra ( dolomite) at Minas ( barite, gold), at La Mariscala (petroleum ), and 15 kilometers west of Mariscala the Arroyo Tapes ( talc and steatite), at kilometer point 115 of the Ruta 8 (limestone), in the Mina Valencia ( dolomite, lead and zinc) in the Mina de Ramallo Reus (lead, zinc) and in the Mina Euritinia ( copper).

History

The province was founded in 1837 with the name Minas and included at that time still part of Cerro Largo and Maldonado. The name was changed in 1927 in Lavalleja. The capital of Minas was founded around 1784 by the name "Villa Concepcion de Minas ". Around the city there are many mines and tunnels, to which the name " Minas " is due.

Origin of the name

The province got its name in honor Juan Antonio de Lavallejas, the 1825 liberated the area from the Portuguese siege.

Infrastructure

Education

Lavalleja has a total of seven secondary schools ( Liceos ), in which 4,446 students are taught by 388 teachers. The oldest Liceo of the department is the capital of the department of Minas be moved, founded in 1912, Liceo Liceo N º 1 Departamental " Instituto Eduardo Fabini ". (As of December 2008)

Economy

In the environment of Minas granite and marble are mined. Tourism is also an important source of income.

Population Development

While in 2004 60 925 inhabitants were counted, was found in the context of the census of 2011, population 58 815. Of these, 28 793 were men and 30,022 women.

Policy

The leadership of the executive branch of the department, the Office of Intendente, holds Adriana Peña of the Partido Nacional.

Minas (Uruguay) National Party (Uruguay) Departments of Uruguay Route 8 (Uruguay) Dolomite (disambiguation) Baryte Cerro Largo Department Maldonado Department Juan Antonio Lavalleja Durazno Department Flores Department Florida Department Montevideo Department Rivera Department Rocha Department Salto Department Soriano Department Treinta y Tres Department
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