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2 unusual facts about Pintado


Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas

Before he set sail, he sent his son, Luis Pérez Dasmariñas, on ahead with part of the fleet to the province of Pintado.

Luis Pérez Dasmariñas

Before he set sail, he sent his son, Luis Pérez Dasmariñas, on ahead with part of the fleet to the province of Pintado.


Bernardino Rivadavia

On December 14, 1809, he married Juana del Pino y Vera Mujica, daughter of the viceroy of the Río de la Plata, Joaquín del Pino and his second wife, the vicereine Rafaela Francisca de Vera Mujica y López Pintado.

Rail transport in Uruguay

The contract for the repair of railways covers in particular the section from Pintado (Florida) and Chamberlain (Tacuarembó) based on the change of wooden ties, and from there to Rivera on the border with Brazil, part of the international branch located along the border with the city of Santana do Livramento, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil using rail supplied by Russia given in lieu of a debt and wooden ties imported from Paraguay.

San Francisco Girls Chorus

In 2011, The San Francisco Girls Chrorus collaborated with composer Tania Leon and award-winning poet and writer Carlos Pintado on “Rimas Tropicales”, based on Carlos Pintado’s poetry.


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