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37 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.

Andrés Scotti

Andrés was raised in Trinidad, the capital of Flores Department, he is the oldest son of María Cecilia Ponce de León and Carlos Scotti.

Aníbal Ruiz

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

Asdrúbal Fontes Bayardo

In the 1960s he was a concessionaire for General Motors in Pan de Azúcar, San Carlos and Maldonado, and was a director on the board of a company producing Opel-based pick-up trucks in Pan de Azucar under the name of "Marina".

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.

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.

Fabricio Núñez

Fabricio Damián Núñez Lozano (born November 4, 1985 in Mercedes) is a Uruguayan footballer.

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.

Gastón Brugman

Gastón Brugman Duarte (born 7 September 1992 in Rosario), is a Uruguayan football striker who currently plays for Italian Serie B side Pescara.

Gerardo Pelusso

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

Gonzalo Castro Irizábal

Gonzalo "Chori" Castro Irizábal (born 14 September 1984 in Trinidad, Flores Department) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for Real Sociedad in Spain, as a winger.

Joaquín Suárez

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

Jorge Daniel Casanova

Jorge Daniel Casanova (born July 26, 1976 in Sauce, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Bella Vista of the Primera Division in Uruguay.

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.

Manuel Alberti

He had a curacy at Maldonado, Uruguay during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, and returned to Buenos Aires in time to take part in the May Revolution of 1810.

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.

Punta Ballena

The name "Playa Portezuelo", is sometimes given to describe all the long streach of the beach up to Punta Negra.

Punta Ballena borders the resort Chihuahua to the west, it includes the Casapueblo citadel, the promontory of Punta Ballena, and the beach Playa Las Grutas to the east of it.

Roberto Barry

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

Román Cuello

Román Marcelo Cuello Arizmendi (born April 4, 1977 in Santa Lucía, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Club Atlético Boston River of the Uruguayan Segunda División.

Santiago Ostolaza

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

Simón Vanderhoeght

Simón Vanderhoeght Santos (born 5 June 1986 in Maldonado) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Atenas De San Carlos in the Uruguayan Segunda 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.

South Bound Saurez

The title may contain a spelling error: it is unclear whether saurez is an attempt at spelling soirée, the French word for an evening party, or whether it refers to "Suárez", a wine-producing small town and region in Canelones, Uruguay.

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.

Tomaso Luis Volpi

Tomaso Luis Volpi, also known as Tommaso Volpi, Tomás Volpi or Luis Volpi (born December 5, 1920 in Artigas) is a retired Uruguayan professional football player.

Universidad Católica del Uruguay Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga

Its main campus is located in Montevideo (in 6 locations in the city) and 2 other campuses in Maldonado and Salto.

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 Gassire

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

William Castro

William Adrián Castro Rosso (born 22 May 1962 in Mercedes) is a former Uruguayan footballer.

William Ferreira

William Ferreira Martínez (born on February 25, 1983 in Artigas) is a Uruguayan football striker.

Wilmar Cabrera

Wilmar Rubens Cabrera Sappa (born July 31, 1959 in Cerrillos, Uruguay) is a retired football striker from Uruguay, who was nicknamed "Toro".


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.

Antonio Alzamendi

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

Avelino Arredondo

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

César Vega

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

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').

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).

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.

Estadio Municipal Doctor Mario Sobrero

Estadio Municipal Doctor Mario Sobrero is a multi-use stadium in Rocha, Uruguay.

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.

Fernando Muslera

On 19 July 2011, Galatasaray officially announced the signing of Fernando Muslera from Lazio on a 5-year contract while he was on duty in the Copa América with 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.

Hipódromo

Barrio Hipódromo, a populated place in Maldonado Department, Uruguay

Jim Finney

Later he was selected as one of the English referees at the 1966 World Cup, gaining some notoriety there for his handling of the Uruguay versus West Germany quarter-final in which he sent off Horacio Troche and Héctor Silva.

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.

Lagomar

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

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).

Lorentziella

The genus contains a single species Lorentziella imbricatum known from central Texas, Mexico, and South America (Argentina, Paraguay, & Uruguay).

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.

Mauricio Espinosa

Mauricio Espinosa was born on 6 May 1972 and lives in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo.

Melo HVDC Back-to-back station

From the Melo station a 128 kilometres long 525 kV powerline, of which 65 km are situated in Uruguay, runs to a newly built 525 kV/230 kV substation close to the Candiota power station, which contains some harmonic filters.

Nataniel Aguirre

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

Nicolás Bertolo

In 2008 Bertolo was loaned to Uruguayan club Nacional where he scored 3 goals in 15 appearances and in July 2008 he joined Banfield.

Pablo Bangardino

He played loaned during 2007 in Uruguayan Central Español, and played his first 9 games with Gimnasia La Plata when he returned from the loan.

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.

Pluricentric language

In Argentina and Uruguay the Spanish standard is based on the local dialects of Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

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.

Raúl Barragán

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

Richard G. Scott

A few weeks after returning from Uruguay, Scott was interviewed by the then-Captain (later Admiral) Hyman G. Rickover for a job on a top-secret project involving nuclear energy.

Roque Máspoli

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

San Juan de Ávila, Alcalá de Henares

It is interesting to point out that, originally, this church was going to be built in Uruguay (Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Malvín); as the economic situation made this impossible, only the apse was built.

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.

SIPCOT IT Park

The $250-million TCS building built to house a staff of 30,000 working in it and designed by the Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott was inaugurated on 23 February 2001 by Danilo Astori, the vice-president of Uruguay.

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.

Stefan Sittig

Although he was born in the U.S., Sittig's mother is Uruguayan and he was raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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.