Uruguaiana
Sign in to saveUruguaiana is a city and municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is located on the eastern shore of the Uruguay River bordering Argentina. Opposite to Uruguaiana, and joined to it by a road/railway bridge, lies the Argentine city of Paso de los Libres, Corrientes. North of Uruguaiana lies the Brazilian municipality of Itaqui, connected by a bridge constructed by the British in 1888 over the Ibicuí River. The municipality also borders the municipalities of Alegrete, Barra do Quaraí and Quaraí, and, also, Uruguay, making it one of the few international triple-border municipa
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Uruguaiana
- Settlement.official_name
- Municipality of Uruguaiana
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Edificio de la municipalidad (Prefeitura) de Uruguayana.jpg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Uruguaiana-bandeira.jpg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Brazao_Uruguaiana.jpg
- Settlement.image_map
- RioGrandedoSul Municip Uruguaiana.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Ronnie Colpo Mello (PP)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1843
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 5702.098
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Named after
- Uruguay River
- Demonym
- uruguaianense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Population
- 117456
- Area
- 5715.763
- Elevation
- 115
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Shares border with
- Quaraí
- Official website
- www.uruguaiana.rs.gov.br
- Image
- Eu ♥ Uruguaiana • mirante.jpg
- Dialing code
- 55
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- twinned administrative body
- Goya
- Commons category
- Uruguaiana
- topic's main category
- Category:Uruguaiana
- inception
- 1843-00-00
- postal code
- 97500-000
- Human Development Index
- 0.788
- electorate
- 87259
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Communications and distances
- Climate
- Economy
- Health
- Education
- Music
- Notable construction works
- Consular representation
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
Uruguaiana is a city and municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is located on the eastern shore of the Uruguay River bordering Argentina. Opposite to Uruguaiana, and joined to it by a road/railway bridge, lies the Argentine city of Paso de los Libres, Corrientes. North of Uruguaiana lies the Brazilian municipality of Itaqui, connected by a bridge constructed by the British in 1888 over the Ibicuí River. The municipality also borders the municipalities of Alegrete, Barra do Quaraí and Quaraí, and, also, Uruguay, making it one of the few international triple-border municipalities of Brazil.
The city marks the southernmost point reached by the Paraguayans in the Paraguayan War; after being taken without resistance, it was recaptured after a six-week siege that effectively ended the phase of Paraguayan offensive operations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uruguaiana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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