Durazno Department
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Country | Uruguay | ||
Capital | Durazno | ||
surface | 11,643 km² | ||
Residents | 57,088 (2011) | ||
density | 4.9 inhabitants per km² | ||
ISO 3166-2 | UY-YOU | ||
Website | www.durazno.gub.uy (Spanish) | ||
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Intendant | Benjamin Irazábal | ||
Political party | Partido Nacional |
Coordinates: 33 ° 3 ′ S , 56 ° 2 ′ W
Durazno is a department in Uruguay . It is in the center of the country.
geography
Location and landscape
The Durazno, which covers an area of 11,643 km², is a region rich in water, as it is enclosed by the Río Negro and Río Yí rivers . In the Río Negro, on the northern border of the region, there are three large reservoirs that were artificially created to supply the region with energy via hydropower plants. The three large reservoirs Rincón del Bonete , Baygorria and Palmar have shaped the landscape in this area very much since their construction. Cerro Chato is the highest point in Durazno at 260 m above sea level.
Settlement structure
The capital Durazno has 34,372 inhabitants (as of 2011). It is the only larger town in the department and almost half of its inhabitants live in it. The department itself is one of the most sparsely populated regions of Uruguay , along with Flores and Treinta y Tres . In 1990 the number of inhabitants per square kilometer was just under five.
Natural resources
In Durazno there are uranium deposits at Paso de las Piedras . In Blanquillo are kaolin -Occurrence present.
Infrastructure
education
Durazno has a total of seven secondary schools ( Liceos ), in which 4,423 students are taught by 400 teachers. The oldest Liceo in the department is the Liceo Departamental "Dr. Miguel C. Rubino" , which was founded in 1913 and is located in the department capital Durazno . (As of December 2008)
traffic
Durazno is also connected to air traffic via the Santa Bernardina airport, which is located near the capital .
Residents
While 58,859 inhabitants were counted in 2004, the number of inhabitants determined in the context of the 2011 census was 57,088. Of these, 28,216 were men and 28,872 women.
politics
Benjamin Irazábal of the Partido Nacional holds the leading position of the executive branch of the department, the office of intendente .
Former Intendents
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mass Media in Latin America - Third Volume: Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay, Columbia by Jürgen Wilke , Vervuet Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, p. 194
- ↑ Ulises Rubens Grub : Atlas geografico de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo 1980, p. 35
- ↑ Liceos del Uruguay (Spanish) (PDF; 7.3 MB), accessed on February 29, 2012
- ↑ 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)