Tres Cruces (Montevideo)

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Location of Tres Cruces in Montevideo
Plan of Tres Cruces
La Cruz Papal on the Bulevar Artigas

Tres Cruces is a district ( barrio ) of the Uruguayan capital Montevideo .

location

It is located in the central core area of ​​Montevideo at the intersection of the city's three major traffic arteries, Avenida 18 de Julio , Bulevar Artigas and Avenida 8 de Octubre . The starting point of Avenida Italia is also located there . The Barrio Cordón is adjacent to the west, La Comercial and Larrañaga to the north . La Blanqueada and Parque Batlle - Villa Dolores connect to the east . Pocitos is located to the southeast . The area of ​​Tres Cruces is assigned to the Municipios Municipio B and Municipio CH .

Infrastructure

With that in barrio located Terminal Tres Cruces , the district also has the central hub of the long-distance passenger traffic in the country. From this two-story bus terminal, which is connected to a large shopping center, buses travel to all parts of the country, as well as the important places in the rest of Central South America. The quarter also houses office and residential buildings, as well as several public and private hospitals. Significant buildings in the district include the Edificio Sociedad Médica Uruguaya and the Casa Juan R. Domínguez . Furthermore, on the border to the neighboring barrio Parque Batlle, there is the Obelisk of Montevideo , as well as a large white cross on the Bulevar Artigas. The latter shows the location of the mass that Pope John Paul II held there on his first visit to Uruguay in 1987.

Origin of the name and history

The name of the district comes from the early nineteenth century. At that time, when the state of Uruguay did not yet exist as such, the Congreso de Tres Cruces (also called Congreso de Abril ) was held there in 1813 , during which Artigas formulated his political principles (the Instrucciones del año XIII ).

Web links

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

Coordinates: 34 ° 54 ′  S , 56 ° 10 ′  W