Jacinto Vera

This article describes the Montevideos neighborhood. For the eponymous bishop see under Jacinto Vera (Bishop) .

Location of Jacinto Vera in Montevideo

Plan by Jacinto Vera

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

location

The surrounding districts are Brazo Oriental , Mercado Modelo y Bolívar , Larrañaga , La Comercial and La Figurita, starting clockwise from the north . The eastern boundary of the barrio to the Larrañaga located there is largely formed by the Bulevar Artigas, which runs along there . The area of Jacinto Vera is the municipality C assigned.

history

The name of the district, which mainly serves as a residential area for the middle class, can be traced back to the first Catholic bishop of Montevideo of the same name, Jacinto Vera . It was founded in 1895, according to other sources in 1894, by Francisco Piria . The eight-hectare estate of Plateros was once located there. The area was delimited and subdivided by the surveyor Luis Machado. At the beginning of the 20th century, the barrio had around 150 inhabitants.

On August 24, 1994, the barrio was the scene of the so-called Jacinto Vera massacre .

Infrastructure

The construction of a new large shopping center in the area called "Nuevocentro Shopping" is currently being planned.

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  Comando del Ejército (former military school) in Jacinto Vera

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  Monumento a Luis Batlle Berres ("Los Cuernos de Batlle") on Bulevar Artigas

Web links

Commons : Jacinto Vera, Montevideo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• La masacre de Jacinto Vera (Spanish)
• "Black Wednesday"

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 3, 2014
2. ↑ ^{a b} Orestes Araújo : "Diccionario geográfico del Uruguay", Montevideo, 2nd edition 1912, p. 245
3. ↑ History of the Barrios  ( 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. (Spanish)  
4. ↑ "En agosto comenzaría construcción del shopping en predio de Cutcsa."

Coordinates: 34 ° 53 ′  S , 56 ° 10 ′  W