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Place details
- Locality
- Mercedes
- Region
- Soriano
- Country
- Uruguay
- Population
- 42,359
- Timezone
- America/Montevideo
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Uruguay
- Department
- Soriano
- Total
- 24.6 km (9.5 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 26 m (85 ft)
- Density
- 1,770/km (4,580/sq mi)
- Demonym
- mercedario-a
- Time zone
- UTC -3
- Dial plan
- +598 453 (+5 digits)
- Climate
- Cfa
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Demonym
- mercedario
- Country
- Uruguay
- Located in
- Soriano Department
- Population
- 41974
- Area
- 24.60725
- Elevation
- 26
- Capital of
- Soriano Department
- Image
- Plaza Independencia. Mercedes.JPG
- Households
- 16818
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- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Mercedes
- topic's main category
- Category:Mercedes, Uruguay
- Commons category
- Mercedes, Uruguay
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Mercedes, Uruguay
- inception
- 1788-00-00
- postal code
- 75000
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Encyclopedic overview
Mercedes ( Spanish pronunciation: [meɾˈseðes]) is the capital and largest city of the department of Soriano in Uruguay. According to the census 2011, it is the tenth most populated city of the country.
Mercedes is an important centre of tourism, commerce and a commercial port. Its main industries are based on agriculture, dairy products, paper manufacturing and industrial activities. Its rambla (riverside promenade) is one of the widest in the country.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mercedes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.