Palermo (Montevideo)

Location of Palermo in Montevideo

Palermo's plan

Monument to Rosalía de Castro in Plaza Galicia in Palermo

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

location

It is located in the south of the city on the coast of the Río de la Plata . It borders the Barrio Sur district to the west, and the Cordón district to the north . Palermo is bordered in the south by the Rambla República Argentina, which runs along the coast . In the east, the calle Jackson forms the boundary of the barrios . This is where the Parque Rodó district begins . The area Palermo is the municipality B assigned.

Etymology and history

The name of Palermo is derived from the Italian city of the same name , which in turn results from the fact that a large number of immigrants settled there, who came to the city until the first decades of the 20th century. Palermo serves poorer sections of the population for residential purposes. For a long time, the so-called montevideotypical Conventillos and Inquilinatos were a common form of living here . Together with the Barrio Sur , Palermo forms the center of the carnival activities of the descendants of immigrants of East African origin and is considered the cradle of the Candombe .

Infrastructure and sights

In the district there is the seat of the Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay (UTU) in the Calle San Salvador , as well as that of the Latin American integration association ALADI and the embassy of the United States.

Conjunto Habitacional Rambla in Palermo

further reading

• "Los conventillos de barrio Sur y Palermo: mucho más que casas de inquilinato" by Alejandrina da Luz (Spanish)

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 5, 2014
2. ↑ "Uruguay", p.143 Martin Henry John Finch, Alicia Casas de Barran

Coordinates: 34 ° 55 ′  S , 56 ° 11 ′  W