Cerro de Montevideo
| Cerro de Montevideo | ||
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 Cerro de Montevideo |
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| height | 134 m | |
| location | Montevideo , Montevideo Department , Uruguay | |
| Coordinates | 34 ° 53 '18 " S , 56 ° 15' 36" W | |
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| rock | basalt | |
The Cerro de Montevideo is a hill in the urban area of Montevideo in Uruguay .
The highest point of the next to the bay of Montevideo, opposite the harbor in Barrio Villa del Cerro situated Cerro de Montevideo is located at an altitude of 134 m . During the colonization of South America, it served as a strategic point to protect the port. So then let Bruno Mauricio de Zabala , a fortress on the 1717 Summit build the hill that the name of Fuerte de San Miguel was wearing. This fortress still exists today as Fortaleza General Artigas . It was renamed to this name in 1882 and is now popularly known as La Fortaleza del Cerro . The fort is home to the Museo Militar General Artigas , whose exhibits include uniforms and weapons guarded by real soldiers. There is also a 148 meter high lighthouse on the Cerro .
The Cerro de Montevideo, made up of dark, horn-blended, crystalline slate, which, contrary to what is sometimes held in popular literature, is not an extinct volcano and whose basalt rocks are covered with various types of cacti, is also in the upper right quarter of the coat of arms Pictured from Uruguay .
Fortaleza General Artigas on the Cerro
Cerro de Montevideo in 1865
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ GEOGRAPHY Cuchilla Grande - Cerro de Montevideo . In: Enciclopedia Geografica del Uruguay . Acerca de Montevideo COMM , accessed May 17, 2010 (Spanish).
- ↑ Museo Militar General Artigas ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) at montevideo.gub.uy, accessed February 21, 2012
- ^ "South America 2 - Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay" by Thomas Binder, DuMont Verlag Cologne, 1978, p. 192
- ^ Structure and surface forms in Die La Plata-Länder by Herbert Wilhelmy , Wilhelm Rohmeder , 1963, p. 20
- ↑ The Uruguayan hill country and step country in The La Plata countries by Herbert Wilhelmy , Wilhelm Rohmeder , 1963, p. 351
- ↑ http://www.frailea.com/References/Internoto_30_2.htm
