Soriano Department

Soriano
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Basic data
Country	Uruguay
Capital	Mercedes
surface	9008 km²
Residents	82,595 (2011)
density	9.2 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	UY-SO
Website	www.soriano.gub.uy (Spanish)
politics
Intendant	Guillermo Besozzi
Political party	Partido Nacional

Coordinates: 33 ° 31 ′  S , 57 ° 45 ′  W

Soriano is a department in Uruguay .

geography

It is located in the west of the country, on the border with Argentina formed by the Uruguay River . In the north it borders on the department Río Negro , in the south lies the neighboring department Colonia and in the east it is bordered by Flores . Soriano has a slightly hilly relief. From northwest to southeast the department is crossed by the Cuchilla del Bizcocho , which acts as a watershed between the two river basins of the Río San Salvador and the Río Negro .

Inhabitants and settlement structure

While 84,563 inhabitants were counted in 2004, the number of inhabitants determined as part of the 2011 census was 82,595. Of these, 40,853 were men and 41,742 women. The capital Mercedes has 42,032 inhabitants (as of 2004) and is located on the Río Negro not far from its confluence with the Río Uruguay. It is an old colonial town that is a popular tourist center in summer due to its location on the river.

The second most important city is Dolores , a little further south , a port city with 15,753 inhabitants (as of 2004). Other cities in Soriano are Cardona , Chacras de Dolores , José Enrique Rodó , Palmitas and Villa Soriano .

Infrastructure

education

Soriano has a total of nine secondary schools ( Liceos ), in which 5,896 students are taught by 566 teachers. The oldest liceo in the department is Liceo N ° 2 "Luis Alberto Zanzi" , which was founded in 1903 and is located in the capital of the department, Mercedes . (As of December 2008)

politics

Guillermo Besozzi of the Partido Nacional holds the leading position of the executive branch of the department, the office of intendente .

Web links

Commons : Soriano Department  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Intendencia of Soriano

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Soriano - Geografía Política on www.todosoriano.com.uy ( Memento of the original of December 28, 2010 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)  
2. ↑ Statistical data of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay ( Memento of the original of November 13, 2009 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.  
3. ↑ Statistical data of the 2011 census ( memento of the original from September 27, 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. of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay , accessed on August 29, 2012 (XLS file; 25 kB)  
4. ↑ Internet presence of the Intendencia of Soriano ( Memento of the original of March 23, 2010 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.  
5. ↑ Liceos del Uruguay (Spanish) (PDF; 7.3 MB), accessed on February 29, 2012