Pocitos

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

Geography

It is located south of the city. There it is bordered on the south by the district of Punta Carretas located there. In the south east it meets the coast of the Río de la Plata, where Pocitos with the Playa de los Pocitos has a wide beach below. To the west lie the Parque Rodó and Cordón barrios. Here the Bulevar Artigas forms the dividing line to the neighboring barrios. In the north closes behind Avenida Gral. Parque Batlle Rivera - Villa Dolores, while in the east from the Avenida Dr. Luis Alberto de Herrera Buceo continues the urban area. In the eastern part of the district about where the road 26 de Marzo crosses the Lorenzo J. Perez and La Gaceta, there is a to the Río de la Plata flowing small unnamed brook, which in the early phase of the then walled city of Montevideo, the city in 18. century still mainly limited to, surrounded by city walls on area of ​​today's Old Town, as was used for washing clothes. At that time, this stream as de los Pocitos known.

Population

Currently, here are 69 636 inhabitants recorded, with the proportion of women clearly outweighs with 39,809 female as opposed to male 29 827 inhabitants (as of 2005).

History

The environment of the Pocitos Barrios originally evolved to a seaside resort for the middle and upper classes, both the residents of Uruguay and the Argentine coastal region of the Río de la Plata. Using a derived from the 1881 decree was made in the course of urban development, the inclusion of Pocitos ' in the so-called Ciudad Novísima. Large parts of the district were at that time, developed by entrepreneur Francisco Piria, who later established the so-called Palacio Chico Piria on the edge of Pocitos also a house for his daughter. On the parceled land then summer houses upscale claim were built surrounded in part extrovert architecture or freestanding and gardens. The main means of transport used in Pocitos at that time the tram. However, in the following years, the neighborhood transformed into an increasingly residential area of ​​permanent character. In particular, from the 1920s transformed the external appearance, made ​​the first changes to the cadastral Pocitos. Were instrumental in bringing the two architects Bello and Reboratti with their construction company established in 1921 to Bello y Reborati. In the 1930s created the first high-rises. Benefiting from the 1946 enacted the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal, this process accelerated in the subsequent period and the transformation of the original character Pocitos continues to this day.

Description and infrastructure

It is home to a variety of diplomatic missions abroad. So are here at Casa Towers and the Italian at Casa Darnaud settled the Russian Embassy. Even the Swiss, Spanish and Egyptian diplomatic mission have their headquarters in Pocitos

Monuments and important buildings

Furthermore, located in Pocitos about the places Tomás Gomensoro Plaza, Plaza D. Muñoz, Rubén Dario Plaza and Plaza Winston Churchill. Notable buildings are the Iglesia San Juan Bautista (since 1993 "Bien of Interest Municipal " ) which was founded on September 11, 1914 Parish of San Juan Bautista, or the two in each case since 1986 Monumento Histórico Nacional listed as Casa Felipe Yriart. Los Claveles and Casa Williman. Similarly, we find here at Plaza Varela the monument dedicated to the reformer José Pedro Varela for the same. Also, the district has many buildings that the urban cultural heritage ( "Bien of Interest Municipal " ) were explained. These are in addition to the aforementioned Casa Towers (1993) and Casa Darnaud (1993 ), about the year of appointment in parentheses Casa Leborgne (1993 ), the Casa Perotti (1993 ), the Edificio El Mástil (1993 ), the Rambla Hotel (1993 ), the Casa Defey (1995), the Edificio El Malecón (2005), the Edificio El Pilar ( 2005), the Edificio Gilpe (2005), the Edificio Guayaqui. La Goleta (2005), the Edificio Mónaco (2005), the Edificio Pocitos (2005 ) or the Edificio Positano ( 2005). Other important buildings are the apartment house on the corner Artigas 1046 Grail. Arq. Alfredo Baldomir and the Casa de Piria Berton, called Palacio Piria Chico.

Education

Pocitos is also home to the German school founded in 1857 Montevideo ( Colegio y Liceo Alemán ) in the Avenida Dr.Fco.Soca 1356 and in the same neighborhood elsewhere in the connected kindergarten. The resulting 1963 English-language private school St. Andrew 's School, which is 2791 in the Luis B.Cavia and be taught in about 370 students, has found their place here. Other schools in Pocitos are the Escuela Brasil (Building 2002 declared a Monumento Histórico Nacional), the Escuela Simon Bolivar, the Saint George's - Lester House Secondary School, Escuela N º 18 Noruega, the Colegio y Liceo Monte VI and the Colegio y Liceo San Juan Bautista.

Other important institutions Pocitos

• Club Nuevo Banco Comercial, corner Rambla Republica del Peru / Avenida Luis A. de Herrera
• Instituto ILVEM
• Universidad de Montevideo Ingenieria
• Club Atlético Bohemios
• London Institute in Avenida Brasil 2381
• Kibon

Playa de los Pocitos