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unusual facts about Montevideo, Uruguay



Alfajor

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.

Alice Havers

Her father was manager of the Falkland Islands, and she was brought up with her family there, and later at Montevideo.

Andriy Kovalenco

He played two games at the 1999 Rugby World Cup, scoring 5 penalties, all the entire 15 points score in the 27-15 loss to Uruguay.

Antonio Alzamendi

Antonio Alzamendi Casas (born June 7, 1956 in Durazno) was a Uruguayan football player who retired in 1991.

Carlos Capelán

Carlos Capelán (born 1948) is a contemporary artist from Montevideo, Uruguay.

César Vega

César Javier Vega Perrone (born September 2, 1959 in Montevideo) is a retired football defender from Uruguay.

Chacabuco, Buenos Aires

Probably the most famous resident of Chacabuco was Daniel Passarella who featured in both of Argentina's FIFA World Cup wins in 1978 and 1986 and went on to manage the national team as well as Uruguay and River Plate.

Concepción del Uruguay

The Uruguay Department produces 47% of the nation's poultry, and Concepción del Uruguay together with Gualeguay and Colón make up 85% of Argentine chicken exports.

Daisy Tourné

In 2007, as Interior Minister, Tourné oversaw security for the visit to Uruguay of US President George W. Bush, to whom a significant hostility among many of Ms. Tourné's Frente Amplio colleagues, raised in a tradition which magnifies Che Guevara and his Cuban fellow revolutionaries, was widely noted.

David Hague

After playing for the Portland, where Hague was nominated for rookie of the year, Hague went to Uruguay to play for Danubio F.C. It was decided that Soccer did not deserve David and he quit instead.

Electricity sector in Uruguay

The first wind farm in Uruguay, the 10 MW Nuevo Manantial project in Rocha, which will sell the electricity generated to UTE, started operations in October 2008.

Ever Hugo Almeida

Almeida made his professional debut in 1967 at the age of 19 playing for C.A. Cerro of Montevideo.

Flora Perini

Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Fundacion Manantiales

These services have had successful outcomes in the most developed countries and are installed in Buenos Aires and Montevideo (Uruguay).

Gabriel Pombo

Gabriel Antonio Pombo (Montevideo, 11 October 1961) is a Uruguayan writer and lawyer, who is known for his books, essays and interviews relating to serial murderers, and particularly about the famous case of Jack the Ripper, the mysterious and never discovered murderer of London.

Hernán Menosse

Jorge Hernán Menosse Acosta (born 28 April 1987) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays for Recreativo de Huelva, on loan from Montevideo Wanderers F.C., as a central defender.

Ivar Hippe

-- The previous reference says Hippe was put on a plane to Montevideo, Uraguay? -->, after missing a flight to São Paulo, Brazil.

Japanese cruiser Asama

On 21 August 1920, it made a training voyage to Hong Kong, Singapore, Columbo, Durban, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Valparaíso, Tahiti, Truk and Saipan, thus circumnavigating the globe east to west.

John Esplen

He then became a partner in his father's firm and helped to establish branches in London, Cardiff, Buenos Aires, New York City and Montevideo.

John Parish Robertson

He landed at Montevideo on the day after its occupation by the British forces under Sir Samuel Auchmuty.

Jorge Batlle Ibáñez

In 2002, after Uruguay was hit by the Argentine economic crisis, an off-the-record conversation between president Batlle and a journalist from Bloomberg Argentina was recorded by a hidden camera from that channel.

Juan Francisco Larrobla

Juan Francisco de Larrobla Pereyra (Montevideo, 9 January 1775 - Canelones, 5 July 1842) was a Uruguayan Roman Catholic cleric, theologian and patriot.

Lagomar

Lagomar is a residential neighbourhood and resort of Ciudad de la Costa in Canelones, Uruguay.

Lewis T. Babcock

Among the notable cases he has handled are:Lane v. Owens, in which he ruled that the State of Colorado could not permissibly compel recitation of the pledge of allegiance; Golan v. Gonzales, in which he held that the copyright provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act did not violate the United States Constitution; and the litigation arising out of the Columbine High School massacre.

Libertador General San Martín Bridge

It runs between Puerto Unzué, near Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina, and Fray Bentos, Río Negro Department, Uruguay, with a total length of 5,966 meters (3.7 mi) (4,220 meters (13,845 ft) in Argentine jurisdiction and 1,146 meters (3,760 ft) in Uruguayan territory).

Marcelo Macías

Marcelo Antonio Macías Oliveri (born September 12, 1975 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan football goalkeeper.

Miss Atlántico Internacional 2008

Miss Atlántico Internacional 2008 (or Miss Atlantic International 2008), the 22nd edition of the Miss Atlantic International beauty pageant, was held in Punta del Este, Uruguay on Saturday, January 26, at 22:00 hours and was delivered by Teledoce Televisora color, live and direct satellite television and Latin America, are now setting out for the broadcast across the globe.

Mundialito

1980 Mundialito, international football tournament held in 1980 in Uruguay

Murgas

The plural of Murga, a form of musical theater performed in Uruguay and in Argentina during the Carnival season

Nariné Simonian

She has also given concerts in Russia, Belgium, Switzerland (in Bulle, at Saint-Pierre des des Liens) where she has a recorded a CD, in Finland, at Kiev (Ukraine in 2003 with Dominique de Williencourt and in November 2008 at the Organ Hall), in North America (New York on 1 November 1998, at the Armenian Evangelical Church of New York, in Montreal and in South America in 1997, along with Olivier Latry (Argentina, Uruguay at the Festival Internacional del Uruguay Órgano,.

New Israel

From 1913 to 1914, about 2,000 followers under the leadership of Lubkov immigrated to Uruguay and established a farming town San Javier, Uruguay.

Oceanian nations at the FIFA World Cup

In the first leg in Melbourne, Australia won 1–0 after Kevin Muscat scored from a penalty kick; however, Australia's qualification campaign ended unsuccessfully as they lost 3–0 in the away leg in Montevideo just five days later with the South Americans proving too strong.

Opta Sports

Opta Sports is a sports data company with headquarters in London and other offices in Leeds, Munich, Bassano del Grappa, Milan, Paris, Madrid, Montevideo and Amsterdam.

Parides bunichus

Parides bunichus damocrates (Guenée, 1872) (Argentina, Uruguay) Much paler; the head and palpi are black, and the submarginal spots on the upper surface of the hindwing are not bright red.

Parque Carrasco

Parque Carrasco is a residential neighbourhood and resort of Ciudad de la Costa in Canelones, Uruguay.

Pascual Echagüe

With the support of Juan Antonio Lavalleja and the members of the White Party, he crossed the Uruguay river in order to attack Rivera, but the latter defeated him at the Battle of Cagancha, on 29 December 1839, in San José Department, Uruguay near the Cagancha creek.

Polo Carrera

Carrera started his career at LDU Quito at the age of 15 in 1960, where he stayed until transferred to Peñarol of Uruguay in 1968.

Raúl Barragán

Barragán became a general manager of Aerolíneas Argentinas in 1978 at Concordia, a border city between Argentina and Uruguay.

Rubén Israel

The individuals that will form the coaching staff are assistant managers Mauricio Alfaro and José Luis Rugamas, physical trainers Esteban Coppia (Argentina) and Nicolás Dos Santos (Uruguay) and the goalkeeping coach Carlos Cañadas.

Santiago Ostolaza

Santiago Javier Ostolaza Sosa (born July 10, 1962 in Dolores, Soriano) is an Uruguayan former football midfielder and current manager.

Seymour Island

The plaque was placed on 10 November 1903 by the crew of the Argentinian Corvette Uruguay on a mission to rescue the members of the Swedish expedition led by Otto Nordenskiöld.

State of Siege

The story is based by Costa Gavras on an actual incident in Uruguay in 1970 when U.S. Embassy official Dan Mitrione was kidnapped and killed.

Super Formation Soccer 94

Using two special codes, the player will have access to the special/hidden teams which didn't take part in the 1994 World Cup: England, Wales, Uruguay, Denmark and France.

Switzerland–Uruguay relations

Since 1947, Switzerland has a diplomatic representation in Montevideo.

The Antelope

John Smith was first mate on the Columbia, later renamed Arraganta, when it sailed from Baltimore, Maryland under a letter of marque issued by the Uruguayan revolutionary José Gervasio Artigas.

Thomas Dodd

Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. (born 1935), former United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to Costa Rica

Tony Gómez

He played for teams in Uruguay (Club Nacional de Football, Club Atletico River Plate, Montevideo Wanderers, Plaza Colonia), Argentinia (San Lorenzo de Almagro, Club Atlético Independiente, Estudiantes de La Plata), Barcelona Sporting Club in Ecuador and finally Matsunichi in China.

Venancio Ramos

Venancio Ariel Ramos Villanueva (born June 20, 1959 in Artigas) is a retired football striker from Uruguay, who was nicknamed "Chicharra" during his professional career.

Walter Caprile

Caprile began his career in Uruguay playing for Cerro and played for several seasons in the Primera División Uruguaya, before moving to clubs in Honduras and Guatemala.

William Reaside

Reaside coached a number of teams in South America, including Nacional of Uruguay, Newell's Old Boys of Argentina, and Asturias and Guadalajara of Mexico.


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Andrea Aguyar

Andrea Aguyar, nicknamed Andrea il Moro, (?, Montevideo, Uruguay - June 30, 1849, Rome, Italy) was a former Black slave from Uruguay who became a follower of Garibaldi in both South America and Italy, and who died in defence of the revolutionary Roman Republic of 1849.

Anglo-South American Bank

The Bank of Tarapaca and London therefore decided that it would buy the smallest of the British banks, the Anglo-Argentine Bank, which had been established in 1889 and which had a branch in Buenos Aires and another in Montevideo, Uruguay.

AnimaNaturalis

As an international non-profit organization, it has offices in Madrid (Spain), Cadiz (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Bogota (Colombia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Caracas (Venezuela), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Lima (Peru), Logroño (Spain), Mexico Federal District (Mexico), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Santiago de Chile (Chile).

Ariel Krasouski

Ariel Krasouski (born 26 May 1958 in San José de Mayo (Montevideo), Uruguay) is a former Uruguayan international footballer currently played for clubs of Uruguay and Argentina.

Bally Shoe

Within another decade it had built an international reputation for quality and design in both men's and women's shoes and expanded operations outside of Switzerland to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay, and Paris, France.

Camila Canabal Sapelli

Camila Canabal Sapelli (born November 8, 1976 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Venezuelan TV hostess currently living in Miami.

Carlos María Herrera

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Herrera began his studies there under the instruction of Pedro Queirolo, later relocating to Buenos Aires for two years at the Círculo Estímulo de Bellas Artes.

Cementerio de La Teja, Montevideo

Cementerio Paso Molino, known also as Cementerio de La Teja, is a cemetery in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Cementerio del Norte, Montevideo

Cementerio del Norte is the largest cemetery in Montevideo, Uruguay, and also the largest green park area of the city.

Cobblestone

Many cities in Latin America, such as Buenos Aires, Argentina; Zacatecas and Guanajuato, in Mexico; Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and Montevideo, Uruguay, richly influenced by many European architectural features, are well known for their many cobblestone streets, which are still operational and in good condition.

Dante Sodini

He completed a funereal monument for the Giudice of the City of Montevideo, Uruguay.

Eric D. Newsom

As a Foreign Service Officer, he served as Vice Consul in Montevideo, Uruguay; Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom; on the staff of the Office of the Secretary of State; Special Assistant to the Director for nuclear policy issues in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs; and Deputy Director—for six months, Acting Director—of the Office of International Security Policy.

Estadio Gran Parque Central

It is located in Montevideo, Uruguay, near Nacional headquarters (exactly between the streets Carlos Anaya, Jaime Cibils, General Urquiza and Comandante Braga), in the La Blanqueada neighbourhood.

Guillermo Sanguinetti

Guillermo Óscar Sanguinetti Giordano (born June 21, 1966 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a retired football player and the current manager of Colombian Primera A team Cúcuta Deportivo.

Gustav Gassner

In 1910 he returned to Germany from Montevideo, Uruguay and married Lili Fassier-Farnell, with whom he had four sons and a daughter.

Jaume Bosch

Miguel Jaume y Bosch (1844–1900), Spanish painter who lived most of his life in Montevideo, Uruguay

John A. Mackay

Mackay joined the Y.M.C.A. as an evangelist and religious teacher moving his family to Montevideo, Uruguay, where the Y.M.C.A. operated a leadership institute.

Jonathan Lacerda

Jonathan Leonardo Lacerda Araujo (born 7 February 1987 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan football defender who currently plays for Santos Laguna in the Liga Bancomer MX.

Lapsa

Lapsa refers to Líneas Aéreas Platenses S.A., the name of a regional airline based in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Marcelo Palau

Marcelo José Palau Balzaretti (born 1 August 1985 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan football midfielder who is currently playing for Guaraní in the Paraguayan Primera División.

Marcelo Tulbovitz

Marcelo Tulbovitz Dembovich was born August 12, 1961 in Montevideo, Uruguay to parents of Latvian and Polish ancestry.

Margarita Xirgu

Margarita Xirgu, also Margarida Xirgu (18 June 1888, Molins de Rei, (Catalonia, Spain) – 25 April 1969, Montevideo, (Uruguay)) was a Catalan stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America.

Médica Uruguaya

Médica Uruguaya is a private medical association of Uruguay with its central offices and hospital located next to Plaza de la Bandera (across Tres Cruces Shopping), between Avenida 8 de Octubre and Avenida Italia, in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Nataniel Aguirre

Nataniel Aguirre (Cochabamba, Bolivia, October 10, 1843 – Montevideo, Uruguay, September 11, 1888), was a prominent Bolivian lawyer, diplomat, politician, writer, and historian.

Palacio Barolo

The basic design, in eclectic style, was conceived simultaneously with one for the Palacio Salvo in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Pope Pius IX and Italy

His initial policies created quite a sensation among Italian patriots, both at home and in exile, that is best exemplified by the following letter written by Giuseppe Garibaldi from Montevideo, Uruguay.

Roberto Chery

Roberto Chery (February 16, 1896, Montevideo, Uruguay - May 30, 1919, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) was a Uruguayan football goalkeeper who played during the days of amateur sport in the Uruguayan Primera División (1900–1931).

Roberto Firpo

He was one of the few tangueros to play in a cafe in Avenida de Mayo in Buenos Aires and he was the first person to play the tango La Cumparsita in the cafe La Giralda in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Snow Pendleton

He was consular chaplain to the British residents at Montevideo, Uruguay from 6 May 1854 to 31 December 1858.

Toño Salazar

He traveled to Montevideo, Uruguay where he remained until 1949 when he was allowed back into Buenos Aires for a time.

Uruguayan tango

Uruguayan tango is a form of dance that originated in the neighborhoods of Montevideo, Uruguay towards the beginnings of the 20th century a few months before than Argentine tango.

Virginia Patrone

Virginia Patrone was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1950, where she lived and worked before moving to Spain in 2003.