Location: South America
Capital: Montevideo (1.380.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Salto, Paysandú, Rivera, Melo, Las Piedras
Population: 3,337,000
Area: 176,215 km2
Coin: 1 Uruguayan peso = 100 centésimos
Languages: Spanish
Religions: Roman Catholic, Protestant
The Independence's Year: 1825
Rivers: Rio de la Plata, Uruguay, Rio Negro

It is one of the smallest nations of the Latin America, located between Brazil and Argentina, overlooks to east the Atlantic Ocean and to South the immense estuary of the Rio de la Plata, formed by the confluence of the River Uruguay with the Paranã.
It is a not much inhabited nation (only 19 inhab/ Kmq), in which more than 1/3 of the population lives in in the sweet capital Montevideo, placed on the estuary of the Rio de la Plata almost in front of Buenos Aires.
It is an agricultural country, where big spaces are used in prevalence for the stock farms of oxen and ovine.
Despite of the brutal crisis of the end of the last century, Uruguay is maybe the most progressive socially and economically country of the Latin America. You can think that the school system is entirely free, that graduateds are beyond the 10% of the population and that illiterates are instead only the 2%.

Photographies to greater solution can be found to the page Latin America Gallery