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Uruguay
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| Short Information | Capital: Montevideo
Language: Spanish
Currency: Uruguayan Peso (UYU) | |
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 General details about Uruguay |  CAPITAL CITY OF Uruguay: Montevideo
LANGUAGE OF Uruguay: Spanish
CURRENCY OF Uruguay: Uruguayan Peso (UYU)
COMMENTS ABOUT Uruguay:
Uruguay, officially the Eastern Republic of Uruguay or the Republic East of the Uruguay , is a nation located in the southeastern part of South America.
Cities : Montevideo (capital), Chuy, Colonia del Sacramento, Fray Bentos,
Juan Lacaze, La Paloma, Nueva Palmira, Paysandu, Punta del Este, Piriapolis, Salto
Calling Code +598
Time Zone UTC -3
CLIMATE OF Uruguay: The climate in Uruguay is temperate in the southern part of the country and subtropical in the north, it has warm summers and cold winters. The predominantly gently undulating landscape is also somewhat vulnerable to rapid changes from weather fronts. It receives the periodic influence of the polar air in winter, and tropical air from Brazil in summer.
RELIGION OF Uruguay: Roman Catholic 66%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, nonprofessing or other 31%
POPULATION OF Uruguay: 3,323,906
HISTORY OF Uruguay: A Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By the end of the year the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand its hold throughout the government, with widespread torture of political oponents. Civilian rule was not restored until 1985. Uruguay's political and labor conditions are among the most free on the continent. In 2004, a leftist coalition which included the Tupamaros won elections which left them in control of both houses of congress, the presidency, and most city and regional governments.
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