Maroñas - Parque Guaraní

Location of Maroñas Parque Guaraní in Montevideo

Plan of the Maroñas Parque Guaraní

Central square in Parque Guaraní

Street in Maroñas

Maroñas - Parque Guaraní is a district ( barrio ) of the Uruguayan capital Montevideo .

location

The barrio, which consists of the two quarters of Maroñas and Parque Guaraní, is located in the eastern part of the department of Montevideo . It is surrounded by the districts of Flor de Maroñas (north), Bañados de Carrasco (northeast), Las Canteras (east), Malvín Norte (south), Unión (southwest) and Villa Española (west). Both Maroñas and Parque Guaraní belong to the Municipio F , led by Francisco Fleitas as elected mayor .

history

The settlement of the district in 1834 goes back to Francisca Maroñas. She was the daughter of the Spanish official Francisco Maroñas, who settled in the Banda Oriental in 1765 .

description

Its main streets are Avenida General Flores and Avenida José Belloni . Maroñas is home to the Montevideo racecourse, the Hipódromo de Maroñas .

Hipódromo de Maroñas

Sons and Daughters of the Barrios

• Jorge da Silva (* 1961) football player and coach

Web links

• History of the Barrios Maroñas on montevideo.gub.uy (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. ↑ "Alcaldes electos para los municipios de Montevideo" ( Memento of the original of January 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 34 ° 52 ′  S , 56 ° 8 ′  W