Tacuarembó Department

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Tacuarembó
Brasilien Argentinien Montevideo Maldonado San José Colonia Soriano Flores Florida Lavalleja Canelones Rocha Treinta y tres Durazno Río Negro Cerro Largo Rivera Tacuarembó Paysandú Salto Artigaslocation
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Basic data
Country Uruguay
Capital Tacuarembó
surface 15,438 km²
Residents 90,053 (2011)
density 5.8 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 UY-TA
politics
Intendant Wilson Ezquerra
Political party Partido Nacional

Coordinates: 32 ° 7 ′  S , 55 ° 45 ′  W

Tacuarembó is a department in Uruguay .

geography

Uruguay's largest department in terms of area is located in the northern center of the country, but has only a low population density. The capital Tacuarembó in the north of the region, with 54,757 inhabitants (as of 2011), represents more than half of the population of the administrative unit. It is also one of the larger cities of Uruguay. The second largest city is Paso de los Toros with 12,985 inhabitants (as of 2011). It is located in the extreme south of the department in the immediate vicinity of Uruguay's largest dam, the Rincón del Bonete , which dams the Río Negro . Other larger urban settlements within the department are San Gregorio de Polanco , Ansina and Curtina .

Residents

While 90,489 inhabitants were counted in 2004, the number of inhabitants determined in the context of the 2011 census was 90,053. Of these, 44,169 were men and 45,884 women.

Infrastructure

education

Tacuarembó has a total of twelve secondary schools ( Liceos ), in which 7,261 students are taught by 518 teachers. The oldest Liceo in the department is the 309 Liceo Nº 1 Departamental "Ildefonso Pablo Estéves" , which was founded in 1912 in the department capital Tacuarembó . (As of December 2008)

traffic

In the area of ​​the department there is a connection to the air traffic with the airport Tacuarembó . The Montevideo - Rivera or Paysandú - Tres Arboles - Rivera railway runs through the department . In addition, the railway line Montevideo - KM 329 on the border with Durazno , which was planned in 1980 for a further section of the route in the Tacuarembós department to Cerrillada , ended . Furthermore, the following roads run through the department in any case: Ruta 5 , Ruta 6 , Ruta 26 , Ruta 31 , Ruta 43 and Ruta 44 .

politics

Wilson Ezquerra of the Partido Nacional holds the leading position of the executive branch of the department, the office of the intendente .

Web links

Commons : Tacuarembó  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistical data of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2009 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. (PDF file; 624 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gub.uy
  2. ↑ 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)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gub.uy
  3. ↑ Liceos del Uruguay (Spanish) (PDF; 6.94 MB), accessed on February 29, 2012
  4. ↑ Ulises Rubens Grub : Atlas geografico de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo 1980, p. 37
  5. ↑ Ulises Rubens Grub : Atlas geografico de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo 1980, p. 39