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welCoMe To UrUgUay

Uruguay, officially the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, is a South American
country, located in the eastern part of the American Southern Cone. It
limits the northeast with Brazil - state of Rio Grande of the South -, to the
west with Argentina - provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes - and it has
coast in the Atlantic ocean to the southeast and on the River Plate towards
the south. It covers 176 215 km ², being the second smaller country of

South America in territory, after Suriname. According to INE data in 2011,
Uruguay’s population is 3.29 million inhabitants, ranking tenth among
South American countries.
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It is a presidential republic subdivided into 19 departments and 89 munici-
palities. The capital and most populated city of the country is Montevideo,
with 1.3 million inhabitants, and whose metropolitan area reaches 1.7 mil-
lion, which represents 53% of the national total. He is a founding member
of the United Nations, Mercosur, OAS, UNASUR and G77, among other

international organizations.

It has a temperate climate with variations of temperature caused by the
wind regimes and according to the seasons. The rains, very abundant,
are spread evenly throughout the year. The main economic resources are
agriculture and livestock. Mineral and energy resources are scarce, and
the main industries are paper and paperboard, cement and petroleum
refineries and tourism for years.

Uruguay received more than three million tourists in 2016, almost the
same amount as its population.
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