Carrasco (Montevideo)

Location of Carrasco in Montevideo

City map of Carrasco

Hotel Casino Carrasco

Carrasco is a district ( barrio ) of the Uruguayan capital Montevideo .

Location and geography

The district on the coast of the Río de la Plata is located on the southeastern outskirts of Montevideo. To the west lies the Punta Gorda district , with Avenida Bolivia separating the two barrios. In the north, Carrasco Norte connects mainly behind the Avenida Italia, which runs there, and in the east, the Arroyo Carrasco forms the border to the neighboring Canelones . In the south, the Rambla Tomas Berreta runs along the banks of the vast river with Playa Carrasco located there . The area is Carrascos the municipality E assigned.

Residents

There are currently 16,386 inhabitants here. (Status: 2005)

history

The name of the neighborhood is derived from Salvador Sebastián Carrasco , one of the first residents of Montevideo, whose estancia was in this area. Carrasco, like the Hotel Casino Carrasco as the most important building in the district, came about from a purely private initiative. Up until then, this was the first project of its kind in Uruguay in which both the town planning and the design of an entire district were carried out exclusively by private individuals. The initiative came from a group of pioneers united in the stock corporation ( sociedad anónima ) Balneario de Carrasco . The design of the garden district, which initially served as a summer residence in its early days, came from the French Charles Thays . During the First World War , the work begun in 1912 also came to a halt with regard to the hotel, so that the city of Montevideo took over the further execution. The hotel was finally opened in 1921. The church was also completed in the same year.

description

Parque Gabriel Terra

In Carrasco , which serves as a residential area for the upper class, you will find the Hotel Casino Carrasco, which has been classified as the Monumento Histórico Nacional since 1975, or the Iglesia Stella Maris . The Escuela Naval is also based here. Both the Japanese and the Chinese embassy residences are also located south of the Plaza Alfredo Gribaldi Oddo , which is west of the Plaza Ellis , which is already in the neighboring Carrasco Norte district. Other places in Carrasco are Parque Gabriel Terra , Plaza Thais , Vieja Plaza Conaprole and Plaza Lieja . In addition to the southeast lies west of the Arroyo Carrasco adjacent the about 16 hectares comprehensive Parque Gral. Juan A. Lavalleja where the sports complex of the Club Banco República founded on June 7th 1922 is located.

education

Several educational institutions are located in Carrasco. These include the The Anglo School of the Instituto Cultural Anglo Uruguayo in Calle Saldún de Rodríguez 2195 . This bilingual private school opened on February 6, 2001 and has resided in the current building since 2007 and now has over 500 students. Another private school in Carrasco is the Woodlands School , founded in 1995 and opened in March of the following year , at the corner of Calle San Carlos de Bolívar and Calle Havre .

Other institutions

Commons : Carrasco, Montevideo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Club Fuerza Aerea
• Centro Gallego
• Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club

Web links

• History of Carrascos (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map of the Uruguayan National Statistics Institute for the classification of the barrios of Montevideo (PDF; 1.6 MB), accessed on May 1, 2014
2. ↑ Information about Carrasco on the Intendencia de Montevideo website ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ "Parque Lavalleja es el complejo deportivo al aire libre de Club Banco República"
4. ^ Official website of the Club Banco República
5. ↑ Official website of the Instituto Cultural Anglo Uruguayo ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Information on the history and history of The Anglo School  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Official website of the Woodlands School
8. ^ Official website of Club Fuerza Aerea
9. ↑ www.centrogallegodemontevideo.com
10. ↑ Official website of the Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club

Coordinates: 34 ° 53 ′  S , 56 ° 4 ′  W