San José Department

San Jose
Symbols
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Basic data
Country	Uruguay
Capital	San Jose de Mayo
surface	4992 km²
Residents	108,309 (2011)
density	22 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	UY-SJ
Website	www.imsj.gub.uy (Spanish)
politics
Intendant	José Luis Falero
Political party	Partido Nacional
Landscape in San José near the Sierra de Mal Abrigo

Coordinates: 34 ° 21 ′  S , 56 ° 44 ′  W

San José is a department in Uruguay .

geography

Location and landscape

The department, which covers an area of ​​4,992 km², is located in the southwest of the country and is bordered in the south by the Río de la Plata . The Flores department borders in the north . The local border line is formed in parts by the Arroyo San Gregorio . In the west is the department of Colonia . The Arroyo Cufré mainly serves as a natural borderline . To the east, both the northern part of the Florida department border, which is largely formed by the Arroyo del la Virgen, and the southern part of the eastern border, Canelones . The second part of the territorial separation function of this border section is taken over by the latter from the confluence of the Arroyo de la Virgen into the Río Santa Lucía . Its lower reaches also separate the areas of San Josés and Montevideos from one another. Like the rest of Uruguay, the department area, which is criss-crossed by numerous smaller rivers, is crossed by the Río San José from north to south . While the Cuchilla Pavón , Cuchilla de San José , Cuchilla Chamizo , Cuchilla del Tala and Cuchilla Carreta Quemada stretch from west to east in the northern department , the southern area is criss-crossed by the Cuchilla Pavón, Cuchilla Pereira , Cuchilla San Miguel and Cuchilla Mangrullo .

Natural resources

Only in the northwestern part of the department near Guaycurú exist manganese deposits. In the southeast near the kilometer point 37 of the Ruta 1 is Limos to find -Occurrence.

history

San José has been the scene of significant events in Uruguayan history. On June 1, 1783, first captain Eusebio Vidal founded a first settlement here with Asturian settlers. The Asamblea General Constituyente y Legislativa (Primera Asamblea General Constituyente) met for the first time on November 22, 1828 in San José as part of the Uruguayan independence process . Later, the area of ​​the department was, among other things, the scene of the Battle of Cagancha on the Arroyo Cagancha on December 29, 1839 . The conflict took place between the troops of Fructuoso Rivera and those of Pascual Echagües .

population

The department is one of the areas with the greatest population density in Uruguay. While 103,104 inhabitants were counted in 2004, the number of inhabitants determined in the 2011 census was 108,309. Of these, 53,998 were men and 54,311 women. 36,339 (2004) people live in the capital, San José de Mayo , located in the interior of the department . The second largest city was for a long time Delta del Tigre with 17,457 inhabitants (as of 2004) (not to be confused with the Argentinean town of the same name, Tigre ). In the meantime, this has been combined with the surrounding towns on the basis of Ley Nº 18.052 in 2006 to form Ciudad del Plata . This second main metropolitan area of ​​San Josés is to be found in the southeastern tip of the department on the coast of the Río de la Plata . In addition to these two larger settlement areas, the inhabitants are spread over a few smaller towns such as Libertad , Rodríguez , Ecilda Paullier and numerous smaller towns.

Infrastructure

education

San José has a total of eight secondary schools ( Liceos ), in which 6,903 students are taught by 580 teachers. The oldest liceo in the department is the Liceo N ° 1 Departamental Instituto "Dr. Alfonso Espínola" , which was founded in 1913 and is located in the departmental capital of San José de Mayo . (As of December 2008)

traffic

In terms of transport infrastructure, San José is particularly developed by route 1 , which crosses the department in an east-west direction, and route 3, which branches off from it to the north . In addition, the Montevideo - San José - Colonia railway line runs through San José.

economy

A lot of wine is grown in San José, especially tannat .

politics

José Luis Falero of the Partido Nacional holds the leading position of the executive branch of the department, the office of intendente .

Web links

Commons : San José Department  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Intendencia Municipal of San José (Spanish), accessed on March 21, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulises Rubens Grub: Atlas geografico de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo 1980, p. 35
2. ↑ Statistical data of the 2011 census ( memento of the original from September 27, 2015 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. of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay , accessed on August 29, 2012 (XLS file; 25 kB)  
3. ↑ Ley Nº 18.052 in the wording ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2013 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. (Spanish), Retrieved March 21, 2012  
4. ↑ Liceos del Uruguay (Spanish) (PDF; 7.3 MB), accessed on February 29, 2012