Colonia Cosmopolita
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Coordinates: 34 ° 23 ′ S , 57 ° 24 ′ W Colonia Cosmopolita on the map of Uruguay
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| Country | Uruguay | |
| Department | Colonia | |
| Residents | 73 (2011) | |
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| prefix | 556 | |
Colonia Cosmopolita is a town in Uruguay .
geography
The village is located in the department of Colonia in sector 14 immediately west of the Arroyo Cufré . To the southwest, the city of Juan Lacaze is located on the bank of the Río de la Plata . Other nearby settlements are Paraje Minuano to the west and Pastoreo and Rosario to the northeast . The Cuchilla Cosmopolita extends to the northwest . In the east, the Río Rosario forms a natural border with Colonia Valdense, which is some distance away .
history
Colonia Cosmopolita was founded by Waldensians who came from Piedmont . They bought land in the area known at the time as Rincón de la virgen from a settlement society called La Cosmopolita , which also gave the place its name. In 1880 the old chapel was built in the village, which for many years held an important position in the village and served both as a chapel and a school. In a meeting on March 4, 1883, it was decided to build a house for the pastor next to the chapel. On May 31, 1883, the Protestant Waldensian Church of Colonia Cosmopolita was founded and on October 12 of that year the pastor Pedro Bounous settled here, under whose direction the chapel was then expanded. Church services, Sunday school classes and religious instruction were held in French in the first few years. The Colonia Cosmopolita church building was opened on February 25, 1915.
Infrastructure
Colonia Cosmopolita is east of the Rosario-Juan Lacaze railway line and about four kilometers south of Ruta 1 . In Colonia Cosmopolita there is also a school with the Escuela Rural Nº 21 Colonia Cosmopolita . In addition, a rehabilitation center based on hippotherapy was opened on site in 2006 . The area is particularly characterized by the dairy industry, but cattle breeding and agriculture are also represented.
Residents
The place had 73 inhabitants in the 2011 census, 37 of them male and 36 female. According to a census carried out by students at the local school, in 2007 they had a population of around 500 people in the entire area.
| year | Residents |
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| 1963 | 69 |
| 1975 | 65 |
| 1985 | 63 |
| 1996 | 77 |
| 2004 | 73 |
| 2011 | 73 |
Source:
Web links
- Historia de Colonia Cosmopolita (Spanish)
- Map showing the territory of the Colonia Cosmopolita region
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on www.callingcodes.org
- ↑ Entry on www.codigo-telefonico.com
- ^ Iglesia Evangelica Valdense del Río de la Plata- Reseña histórica , accessed on August 20, 2011 (Spanish)
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "Inauguraron centro de rehabilitación ecuestre en Colonia Cosmopolita" on www.larepublica.com.uy of May 30, 2006, accessed on August 20, 2011 (Spanish)
- ↑ Statistical data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay , accessed on October 3, 2012
- ↑ Statistical data of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay 1963-1996 ( MS Word ; 176 kB)
- ↑ Statistical data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay 2004 as an xls file
