Parque Rodó

Location of Parque Rodó in Montevideo

Plan of the Barrios Parque Rodó

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

location

It is located in the south of the city. There it borders in the south on a small section at Playa Ramírez on the Río de la Plata or otherwise on the Punta Carretas district there . To the west is the Barrio Palermo . Cordón connects to the north , while Pocitos and Punta Carretas continue the urban area in the east . The border of the barrios is formed by the Bulevar Artigas passing there in the east , while the streets Maldonado , Joaquin Requena and Canelones to the north, Juan D. Jackson to the west and Avenida JMSosa , Avenida J. Herrera y Reissig , and Avenida Gonzalo Ramirez to the south and the streets Dr.Luis Piera and Dr.Pablo M. Maria delimit the district.

The area of Parque Rodó is the municipality B assigned.

Residents

There are currently 13,356 residents here, 7,291 of whom are female and 6,065 are male. (Status: 2005)

description

In the district, the area of ​​which largely surrounds and includes the park of the same name, is the seat of Mercosur in the former Parque Hotel , now known as Edificio Mercosur . In addition, Parque Rodó houses the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales and both the engineering faculty and the one for architecture of the Universidad de la República . Other noteworthy buildings are the Casa Vilamajó, listed as Monumento Histórico Nacional since 1990, or the Casa Crespi , the Casa Souto , the Casa del Fauno , the Edificio Polifuncional Faro or the Casa Terra , which houses the Arpel headquarters . The Japanese embassy , whose residence is in Barrio Carrasco , is also based here at Bulevar Artigas 953 .

Other important points within Parque Rodós

Barrio Jardin

• Barrio Jardín

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  Faculty of the Department of Architecture of the UdelaR

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  Facultad de Ingeniería

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  Lake in Parque José Enrique Rodó

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  Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales

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  Headquarters of Mercosur

Web links

Commons : Barrio Parque Rodó  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Information on Parque Rodó on the Intendencia de Montevideo website ( Memento of the original from May 14, 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. 
3. ↑ Official website of the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales
4. ↑ Official website of Arpel
5. ↑ Official website of the Japanese embassy in Montevideo

Coordinates: 34 ° 55 ′  S , 56 ° 10 ′  W