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Tacuarembó
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Tacuarembó ( , literally: "Bamboo shoot") is the capital city of the Tacuarembó Department in north-central Uruguay.
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Place details
- Locality
- Tacuarembó
- Region
- Tacuarembó
- Country
- Uruguay
- Population
- 51,854
- Timezone
- America/Montevideo
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Tacuarembó
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Capital city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tacuarembó Intendencia e iglesia 01.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Governmental building and Cathedral of St. Fructuosus
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Uruguay
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tacuarembó Department
- Settlement.leader_title
- City Manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Wilson Ezquerra Martinotti
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- January 21, 1832
- Settlement.founder
- Bernabé Rivera
- Settlement.population_total
- 60586
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023 Census
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Rank
- Settlement.population_blank1
- 8th
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Demonym
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
Get around
Tacuarembó town is fairly small and easily walkable. However, a good number of attractions lie out of town and you'll need your own transport to reach them.
Do
Nearby is the Indian Cemetery which has been in continuous use since precolumbian times.
Sleep
Hotel Orange: Av. 25 de Agosto 247, Tel. +598 4632 6862, offers nice basic equipped rooms Tacuarembo Hotel: Av. 18 de Julio 133, Tel. +598 (4)63 22104, +598 (4)63 22105, +598 (0)63 22945
Go next
Salto, one bus a day M-Sa 16:00, Su 17:0], U$600 or 21 USD.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Population
- Geography
- Climate
- Places of worship
- Notable people
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- External links
Tacuarembó ( , literally: "Bamboo shoot") is the capital city of the Tacuarembó Department in north-central Uruguay.
==History== On 24 October 1831, a presidential decree by Fructuoso Rivera ordered the creation of a city in the region. The task was entrusted to the President's brother, Colonel Bernabé Rivera. thumb|left| Plaza 19 de Abril Colonel Rivera left Montevideo on a three-month journey with a caravan of wagons and families, towards the shore of the Tacuaremboty River, which in the Guaraní language means "river of the reeds". The area was surveyed and divided into blocks for settlement. On January 21, 1832, Coronel Rivera founded the town under the name "San Fructuoso", after Saint Fructuosus of Tarragona (whose Saint's Day is January 21) and after his (Benjamin's) brother.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tacuarembó” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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