Puntas de Valdéz

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Puntas de Valdéz
Coordinates: 34 ° 35 ′  S , 56 ° 42 ′  W
Map: Uruguay
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Puntas de Valdéz​
Puntas de Valdéz on the map of Uruguay
Basic data
Country Uruguay
Department San Jose
Residents 1491  (2011)
Detailed data
Post Code 80006
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Puntas de Valdéz , also known as Puntas de Valdés and Puntas de Valdez , is a town in Uruguay .

geography

Puntas de Valdéz is located in the area of ​​the Department of San José in its sector 6 in the Cuchilla Mangrullo . The place is 30 km south of the regional capital San José de Mayo . Settlements in the vicinity are in the northwest radial and in the southeast Barrio Cololó-Timosa and the city of Libertad . The Arroyo Mauricio rises south of the village and flows into the Río de la Plata a few kilometers further south . Immediately above the source of the Arroyo Mauricio is that of the Río-San-José tributary Arroyo Valdéz , which then touches the eastern edge of Puntas de Valdéz.

history

Puntas de Valdéz lay on the course of the historic Camino Nacional - a troop route that connected Montevideo with western Uruguay. With the construction of the Ruta 1 around 1930, the development of today's village began. This important road was inaugurated in 1937, the same year the local sports club Club Atlético Independiente was founded , which still exists today. By means of the legal regulation of the Ley 14.296 , Puntas de Valdéz was declared a pueblo (in German: ~ village) on November 14, 1974 . After the village had around 700 inhabitants until the 1990s, the population has grown significantly since then, thanks in particular to the public construction funding program MEVIR.

Infrastructure

Ruta 1, which used to go through the village, now bypasses it on the south side. Puntas de Valdéz is located near kilometer 61, which was exactly in the center of the village in the earlier course of the country road and is now on the southern edge of the village at the junction to the south towards Kiyú . The place is in an area characterized by the dairy industry. The multi-purpose building of the local administration ( Junta Local ), which includes a sports hall, forms the social center of the place . Puntas de Valdéz has had a polyclinic in the same building since 1987. In November 2010, Education Minister Ricardo Ehrlich opened a center for culture and adult education ( Centro MEC ) operated by his ministry in another part of the building . With the Escuela No. 26 , Puntas de Valdéz also has an all-day school with around 230 students that runs from the two-year preschool to the 6th school year.

Residents

The population of Puntas de Valdéz is 1,491 (as of 2011), of which 739 are male and 752 are female.

year Residents
1963 465
1975 591
1985 692 (or 162)
1996 1,036
2004 1,267
2011 1,491

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uruguayan postal code directory , accessed on March 23, 2012
  2. ↑ Tan solo un punto en el mapa ... Puntas de Valdez , History of the place and the school No. 26, in the school blog Escuela Nº 26, San José , accessed on December 7, 2012 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ a b c Edward Braida: Historias y realidades de Puntas de Valdez , article on the past and present of the place, in: La Semana from October 15, 2012 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Ley 14.296 ( Memento of the original from May 6, 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. (Spanish) on www.parlamento.gub.uy @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parlamento.gub.uy
  5. ↑ Movimiento de la Vivienda Erradicación de Insalubre Rural Dt. "Movement to remove homes in need of renovation in rural areas", more on www.mevir.org.uy (Spanish), in English see e.g. Dino Cappelli: Uruguay: White Concrete Block Replaces Mud, Wattle and Thatch , in: IPS from 8 November 2009, accessed December 7, 2012
  6. ^ Geographical service of the Department of San José: Map of Puntas de Valdéz , accessed on December 7, 2012
  7. ↑ Apwind SA ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2014 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. , Call for tenders from the Uruguayan Environment Ministry with mention of the branch, accessed on December 7, 2012 (Spanish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mvotma.gub.uy
  8. ↑ CMEC Puntas de Valdéz - Información (Spanish) at www.usi.org.uy, accessed on December 7, 2012
  9. ↑ ¡Cien Centros MEC! (Spanish) on the website of the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture, accessed on December 7, 2012
  10. ↑ DEPARTAMENTO: SAN JOSE - Escuelas Públicas ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), accessed December 7, 2012 (PDF; 299 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cep.edu.uy
  11. ↑ ¡Bienvenidos! , Presentation of the school No. 26, from June 11, 2012 in the blog Escuela N ° 26 Puntas de Valdez , accessed on December 7, 2012 (Spanish)
  12. ↑ Statistical data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay , accessed on September 28, 2012
  13. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística: Toponimia y categorización jurídica oficial de las localidades urbanas de Uruguay (PDF; 246 kB), listing of the urban authorities of Uruguay (2011), p. 43 (Spanish); for 1985 692 inhabitants are listed here
  14. ↑ Statistical data of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay 1963–1996 (DOC; 148 kB); 162 inhabitants (87 men / 75 women) are listed here for 1985 (this value may be due to a transcription error)
  15. ↑ Statistical data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay 2004 as XLS file