According to Guinness World Records, the biggest alfajor in the world, measuring almost two meters in diameter and 80 centimeters in height and weighing 464 kilograms, was made on 11 December 2010 in Minas, Lavalleja Department, Uruguay.
The department is named in honor of Brigadier Juan Antonio Lavalleja, who had distinguished military and political action in the country's independence.
The headwaters of the Santa Lucía River are in the Lavalleja department.
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Arturo Ardao (Minas, Lavalleja Department, 27 September 1912 - Montevideo, 22 September 2003) was a Uruguayan philosopher and historian of ideas.