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29 unusual facts about Uruguay


2012 FIRS Men's B-Roller Hockey World Cup

Canelones will be the host city of the tournament, and the Rink will be enclosed the Sergio Matto stadium.

Aníbal Ruiz

Aníbal "Maño" Ruiz Leites, born 30 December 1942 in Salto, Uruguay, is a football (soccer) coach.

Call You Free

They were conducted by Claudio Rosemffet from the University of Belgrano (Argentina), Pablo Cuello from de University of Buenos Aires and Fernando Speranza from de University of El Salvador, with the main purpose to connect the companies of the Mercosur (Southern Common Market), a Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) among Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, founded in 1991.

Edison Gómez

Edison Francisco Gómez Bentancour (born November 14, 1990 in Mercedes, Soriano), commonly known as Edison Gómez, is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a striker for Panserraikos F.C. in the Greek Football League.

Eduardo de la Peña

Born in Minas, De la Peña began playing professional football with Club Nacional de Football in 1976.

El Pinar, Uruguay

Its south limit is the coastline of the Río de la Plata and it shares borders with Lomas de Solymar to the west, with Neptunia to the east, with the stream Arroyo Pando separating the two, and with Country Villa Juana to the north.

Ethnography of Argentina

Between 1857 and 1950, 6,611,000 European immigrants arrived in Argentina, making it the country with the second biggest immigration wave in the world, only second to the United States with 27 millions, and ahead of such other areas of new settlement such as Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay; and permanently changing the ethnography of Argentina.

Francisco Aguilar y Leal

Later, he moved to Maldonado, Uruguay, arriving with a lot of money from the Canary island.

Gabriel Cedrés

Néstor Gabriel Cedrés Vera (born March 3, 1970 in Minas) is a Uruguayan footballer.

Gerardo Pelusso

Gerardo Cono Pelusso Boyrie (born February 25, 1954 in Florida), is a Uruguayan football manager.

Héctor Hugo Eugui

Héctor Hugo Eugui Simoncelli (born February 18, 1947 in Mercedes, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan football manager and former player.

Hernán Menosse

Born in San Carlos, Menosse played youth football with local CA Libertad, making his senior debuts in 2007–08 season.

Hipódromo, Cerro Largo

Hipódromo is a barrio (neighbourhood or district) of Melo, the capital of Cerro Largo Department of eastern Uruguay.

Joaquín Suárez

Joaquín Luis Miguel Suárez de Rondelo (August 18, 1781 in Canelones – December 26, 1868 in Montevideo) was a Uruguayan political figure.

Joe Bizera

Joe Émerson Bizera Bastos (born 17 May 1980 in Artigas) is a Uruguayan football player, who plays for Peñarol Montevideo.

José Oscar Herrera

José Oscar Herrera Corominas (born June 17, 1965 in Tala) is a former Uruguayan international footballer who played 56 times for the Uruguay national team.

Juan Carlos de Lima

Juan Carlos de Lima (born 1962 in Florida, Uruguay) is a former Uruguayan footballer who has played at club level in Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Ecuador.

Juan Ferreri

Juan Francisco Ferreri Samuel (born 30 July 1970 in Florida) commonly known as Juan Ferreri, is a former Uruguayan footballer who used to play as a midfielder and now is assistant coach of Jorge Giordano in Racing.

Leonardo Pais

Leonardo Javier Pais Corbo (born 7 July 1994 in Minas) is an Uruguayan footballer who plays for Defensor Sporting as a midfielder.

Marcelo Andrés Silva Fernández

Born in Mercedes, Silva finished his youth formation in Danubio FC's youth category, making his professional debut on 13 September 2009, against Liverpool FC.

Martín Colombo

Ruben Martín Colombo Rivero (born 12 April 1985 in Mercedes, Soriano) is an Uruguayan footballer who plays as a striker for A.S.D. Città di Marino Calcio in the Serie D.

Miguel Angel Lavié da Cunda

Miguel Angel Lavié da Cunda better known simply as Miguel Lavié (born 15 April 1986 in Las Piedras) is an Uruguayan professional football defender playing for C.D. Suchitepéquez in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala.

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.

Roberto Barry

Up to 1936, he used to act, accompanied by his guitar, in the Centenario cinema in Montevideo.

Rubén Paz

Ruben Wálter Paz Márquez (born August 8, 1959 in Artigas) is a former Uruguayan football midfield player, who retired in 2006 at the age of 47.

Rubén Planchón

Rubén Carlos Planchón Faureau (born August 4, 1982 in Dolores), commonly known as Rubén Planchón, is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a defender for C.A. Rentistas in the Uruguayan Primera División.

Snow Pendleton

They were followed in 1858 by about a hundred more, when the whole party settled at Florida, about sixty miles from the city.

Thiago Pereira

In March 2004, in the 37th South American Swimming Championships in Maldonado, Pereira won the gold medal in the 200-meter individual medley, beating the South American record with a time of 2:00.19 and earning an "A" designation in Brazil's Olympic classification.

Walter Gassire

Born in Florida, Gassire began playing football with the youth teams of C.A. Peñarol.


2013 Americas Rugby Championship

The tournament featured the same teams as in the 2012 version, Argentina Jaguars, Canada Selects, USA Select XV, and Uruguay.

Alberto Suppici

At the inaugural FIFA World Cup in his home nation of Uruguay in 1930, Suppici dropped goalkeeper Andrés Mazali, who had won a gold medal in the 1928 Olympic final, from the national team after he was caught breaking curfew and failing to arrive at the team hotel in time in Montevideo prior to the tournament.

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.

Avelino Arredondo

On August 25, 1897 Arredondo assassinated Idiarte in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo as he emerged from a church service.

Carlos Capelán

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

Cristian Palacios

Cristian Martín Palacios Ferreira (born September 2, 1990 in Salto, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Centro Deportivo Olmedo in the Ecuadorian Serie A.

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.

Danilo Pallares Echeverría

By way of contributing to Uruguayan regional cultural identity, Echeverría is the author of the anthem 'Flores Hymn' (Spanish: 'Himno a Flores').

Dante Sodini

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

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.

Durazno

The town was founded on 12 October 1821, under the name of San Pedro del Durazno, as a homage to Brazilian Emperor Pedro I, at a time when the territory of present-day Uruguay had been annexed to Brazil as the Cisplatine Province.

Education in Uruguay

Uruguay pioneered universal, free, and compulsory primary education in the Americas under the influence of José Pedro Varela, whose writings convinced the government to pass the 1877 Law of Common Education (which was implemented by his brother Jacobo Varela, Orestes Araújo and others).

Fabián O'Neill

Fabián Alberto O'Neill Domínguez (born 14 October 1973 in Paso de los Toros) is an Uruguayan former football midfielder.

Facundo Píriz

Facundo Julián Píriz González (born March 27, 1990 in Tarariras, Uruguay), commonly known as Facundo Píriz, is a Uruguayan football player who plays as a Defensive midfielder for Terek Grozny.

Freckled catshark

The freckled catshark, Scyliorhinus haeckelii, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the continental shelf and upper slope from the western Atlantic from western Venezuela, Suriname, Brazil, and Uruguay between latitudes 11° N and 32° S.

Fundacion Manantiales

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

Gaston Curbelo

The family moved again, back to Uruguay, where he signed for Huracán Buceo.

Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos

Gualeguaychú is located near the international Libertador General San Martín Bridge, which connects the nearby town of Puerto Unzué with Fray Bentos, Uruguay, across the Uruguay River.

Henry Damián Giménez

Born in Durazno, Giménez began his career in Uruguay playing for Centro Atlético Fénix and later in Tacuarembó F.C..

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.

Hipódromo

Barrio Hipódromo, a populated place in Maldonado Department, Uruguay

Jardines de Mater Terra Cemetery

Jardines de Mater Terra is a private cemetery in Ciudad del Plata, San José Department, Uruguay.

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 Arango

In the 2007 edition held in his country, he helped the national team finish first in the group stage, and scored in the quarterfinals against Uruguay, but in a 1–4 defeat.

Julio Pablo Rodríguez

Julio Pablo Rodríguez Cristóbal, (born August 9, 1977 in Juan Lacaze, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer.

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.

Matías Alonso

In September 2013, he left Uruguay for Italian side Bari and just a four-month later, returned back to play for Defensor Sporting.

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.

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,.

Nelson Acosta

Nelson Bonifacio Acosta López, nicknamed Pelado Acosta (Bald Acosta), (born 12 June 1944 in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay) is a former Uruguayan footballer.

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.

Quirino Cristiani

Some of the titles included Firpo-Dempsey (1923) on the boxing match between American heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and Argentinian champion Luis Firpo, Uruguayos Forever (1924) on Uruguay's Olympic gold medal in soccer, and Humberto de garufa (Little Umberto's Folic, 1924), on the visit of Italian Prince Umberto of Savoy to Buenos Aires.

Rony Flores

After playing in New Orleans, he traveled to Uruguay and was hired by the Bella Vista.

Roque Máspoli

Roque Gastón Máspoli Arbelvide (12 October 1917 in Montevideo – 22 February 2004 in Montevideo) was an Uruguayan football player and coach.

Rudi Lausarot

Rudi Pablo Lausarot Bobenrieth (born 3 April 1975 in Young) is a Uruguayan 10 m Air Rifle sport shooter.

San José de Carrasco

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

Santana do Livramento

Santana do Livramento has an airport but scheduled flights to the Brazilian city usually use Pres. Gral. Óscar D. Gestido International Airport in neighboring Rivera, Uruguay.

Sebastián Ribas

Sebastián César Helios Ribas Barbato (born 11 March 1988 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Barcelona Sporting Club on loan from Serie A club Genoa.

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.

Societal attitudes towards abortion

Uruguay: A May 2007 Factum/El Espectador survey asked Uruguayans about a law under debate in their country's Senate, which would legalize abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, finding that 61% support the law, 27% oppose the law, and 12% are unsure about it.

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.

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.

Víctor Diogo

Víctor Hugo Diogo Silva (born April 9, 1958 in Treinta y Tres) is a retired football defender from Uruguay.

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.