Puntas de Valdez

Punta de Valdez on the map of Uruguay

Punta de Valdez, out as Punta de Valdés and Punta de Valdez, is a village in Uruguay.

Geography

Punta de Valdez is located on the territory of the department of San José in its sector 6 in the Cuchilla Mangrullo. The town is located 30 km south of the regional capital, San José de Mayo. Settlements in the area are in the northwest and in the southeast radial Barrio Cololó - Timosa and the city Libertad. South of the town rises the Arroyo Mauricio, the further south a few kilometers flows into the Río de la Plata. Immediately above the source of the Arroyo Mauricio is that of the Rio San Jose Creek Arroyo Valdez, then the tangent to the eastern edge of Punta de Valdez.

History

Punta de Valdez was on the course of the historic Camino Nacional - a Truppenweg that connected with the West Montevideo Uruguay. With the construction of the Route 1 about 1930 roots of the town began. This important highway was inaugurated in 1937, the same year the local sports club Club Atlético Independiente, which exists to this day started. Means the legal regulation of Ley 14,296 was Punta de Valdez on November 14, 1974 Pueblo ( in German: ~ Village ) is explained. After the village until the 1990s had around 700 inhabitants, the population grew significantly since then, especially thanks to the public Bauförderprogramms MEVIR.

Infrastructure

The formerly leading through the village Ruta 1 bypasses him today on the south side. Punta de Valdez is located near the kilometer 61, just lay earlier in the road in the town center and lies on the south turn towards kiyu today on the southern edge of the village. The village lies in an era marked by the dairy industry area. The social center of the village is its multi- purpose building of the local government ( Junta Local ) that includes, among other things, a sports hall. Since 1987, Punta de Valdez has a polyclinic in the same building. In November 2010, opened a run of his Ministry Centre for Culture and Adult Education (Centro MEC) by Education Minister Ricardo Ehrlich in another part of the building. With the Escuela No. 26 Punta de Valdez has also one of the two-year pre-school to 6th grade leading day school with approximately 230 students.

Population

The population of Punta de Valdez is 1,491 (as of 2011), of which 739 male and 752 female.

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay