Andrés was raised in Trinidad, the capital of Flores Department, he is the oldest son of María Cecilia Ponce de León and Carlos Scotti.
Jorge Ángelo Paleso Carbajal (born July 24, 1983 in Santa Lucía), commonly known as Ángelo Paleso, is a Uruguayan footballer, who currently plays for Sud América.
Aníbal "Maño" Ruiz Leites, born 30 December 1942 in Salto, Uruguay, is a football (soccer) coach.
In the 1960s he was a concessionaire for General Motors in Pan de Azúcar, San Carlos and Maldonado, and was a director on the board of a company producing Opel-based pick-up trucks in Pan de Azucar under the name of "Marina".
Carlos Peruena (born March 13, 1955 in Florida) was a Uruguayan football defender who played for the Uruguay national team in Copa América 1975.
Edison Francisco Gómez Bentancour (born November 14, 1990 in Mercedes, Soriano), commonly known as Edison Gómez, is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a striker for Panserraikos F.C. in the Greek Football League.
Born in Minas, De la Peña began playing professional football with Club Nacional de Football in 1976.
He also qualified for the 100 m backstroke by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 56.36 from the South American Championships in Maldonado, Uruguay.
Its south limit is the coastline of the Río de la Plata and it shares borders with Lomas de Solymar to the west, with Neptunia to the east, with the stream Arroyo Pando separating the two, and with Country Villa Juana to the north.
Elio Rodríguez (born November 13, 1962 in Rocha, Uruguay) is a former Uruguayan footballer currently played for clubs of Uruguay, Argentina and Chile.
Between 1857 and 1950, 6,611,000 European immigrants arrived in Argentina, making it the country with the second biggest immigration wave in the world, only second to the United States with 27 millions, and ahead of such other areas of new settlement such as Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay; and permanently changing the ethnography of Argentina.
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Italians form a majority of the population of Argentina and neighbouring Uruguay as up to two-third have some Italian background; among the Latin American countries, only Brazil has more people of Italian descent (28 million, approximately 15 percent of Brazil's total population).
Florencio Sánchez came from a large family; he had eleven siblings and his parents moved his family to the city of Treinta y Tres and later to Minas, where he began his studies at an elementary school.
Francisco Antonino Vidal (1825–1889) was born in San Carlos, Uruguay, in Maldonado Department, and was a senator and two-time president of Uruguay.
Néstor Gabriel Cedrés Vera (born March 3, 1970 in Minas) is a Uruguayan footballer.
Gastón Brugman Duarte (born 7 September 1992 in Rosario), is a Uruguayan football striker who currently plays for Italian Serie B side Pescara.
Gerardo Cono Pelusso Boyrie (born February 25, 1954 in Florida), is a Uruguayan football manager.
Gonzalo "Chori" Castro Irizábal (born 14 September 1984 in Trinidad, Flores Department) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for Real Sociedad in Spain, as a winger.
Born in Mercedes, Eugui began playing football with Bristol de Mercedes.
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Héctor Hugo Eugui Simoncelli (born February 18, 1947 in Mercedes, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan football manager and former player.
Born in San Carlos, Menosse played youth football with local CA Libertad, making his senior debuts in 2007–08 season.
Hipódromo is a barrio (neighbourhood or district) of Melo, the capital of Cerro Largo Department of eastern Uruguay.
Jorge Daniel Casanova (born July 26, 1976 in Sauce, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Bella Vista of the Primera Division in Uruguay.
José Oscar Herrera Corominas (born June 17, 1965 in Tala) is a former Uruguayan international footballer who played 56 times for the Uruguay national team.
Juan Carlos de Lima (born 1962 in Florida, Uruguay) is a former Uruguayan footballer who has played at club level in Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Ecuador.
Juan Francisco Ferreri Samuel (born 30 July 1970 in Florida) commonly known as Juan Ferreri, is a former Uruguayan footballer who used to play as a midfielder and now is assistant coach of Jorge Giordano in Racing.
Juan Francisco de Larrobla Pereyra (Montevideo, 9 January 1775 - Canelones, 5 July 1842) was a Uruguayan Roman Catholic cleric, theologian and patriot.
He had a curacy at Maldonado, Uruguay during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, and returned to Buenos Aires in time to take part in the May Revolution of 1810.
Born in Mercedes, Silva finished his youth formation in Danubio FC's youth category, making his professional debut on 13 September 2009, against Liverpool FC.
Ruben Martín Colombo Rivero (born 12 April 1985 in Mercedes, Soriano) is an Uruguayan footballer who plays as a striker for A.S.D. Città di Marino Calcio in the Serie D.
Maximiliano Matías Calzada Fuentes (born 21 April 1990 in Santa Lucía) is a Uruguayan footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Nacional of the Uruguayan Primera División.
Miguel Angel Lavié da Cunda better known simply as Miguel Lavié (born 15 April 1986 in Las Piedras) is an Uruguayan professional football defender playing for C.D. Suchitepéquez in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala.
From 1913 to 1914, about 2,000 followers under the leadership of Lubkov immigrated to Uruguay and established a farming town San Javier, Uruguay.
Punta Ballena borders the resort Chihuahua to the west, it includes the Casapueblo citadel, the promontory of Punta Ballena, and the beach Playa Las Grutas to the east of it.
Román Marcelo Cuello Arizmendi (born April 4, 1977 in Santa Lucía, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Club Atlético Boston River of the Uruguayan Segunda División.
Ruben Wálter Paz Márquez (born August 8, 1959 in Artigas) is a former Uruguayan football midfield player, who retired in 2006 at the age of 47.
Simón Vanderhoeght Santos (born 5 June 1986 in Maldonado) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Atenas De San Carlos in the Uruguayan Segunda División.
They were followed in 1858 by about a hundred more, when the whole party settled at Florida, about sixty miles from the city.
Uruguay: A May 2007 Factum/El Espectador survey asked Uruguayans about a law under debate in their country's Senate, which would legalize abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, finding that 61% support the law, 27% oppose the law, and 12% are unsure about it.
The title may contain a spelling error: it is unclear whether saurez is an attempt at spelling soirée, the French word for an evening party, or whether it refers to "Suárez", a wine-producing small town and region in Canelones, Uruguay.
Its main campus is located in Montevideo (in 6 locations in the city) and 2 other campuses in Maldonado and Salto.
Venancio Ariel Ramos Villanueva (born June 20, 1959 in Artigas) is a retired football striker from Uruguay, who was nicknamed "Chicharra" during his professional career.
William Adrián Castro Rosso (born 22 May 1962 in Mercedes) is a former Uruguayan footballer.
William Ferreira Martínez (born on February 25, 1983 in Artigas) is a Uruguayan football striker.
Wilmar Rubens Cabrera Sappa (born July 31, 1959 in Cerrillos, Uruguay) is a retired football striker from Uruguay, who was nicknamed "Toro".
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At the inaugural FIFA World Cup in his home nation of Uruguay in 1930, Suppici dropped goalkeeper Andrés Mazali, who had won a gold medal in the 1928 Olympic final, from the national team after he was caught breaking curfew and failing to arrive at the team hotel in time in Montevideo prior to the tournament.
Alfonso Enrique Domínguez Maidana (born September 24, 1965 in Durazno) is a former Uruguayan footballer.
Lundomys molitor, Lund's amphibious rat, of Uruguay and southern Brazil
Antonio Alzamendi Casas (born June 7, 1956 in Durazno) was a Uruguayan football player who retired in 1991.
Lussich later established quite cordial relations with Uruguay´s Colorado Party leaders, receiving Colorado Presidents Claudio Wílliman and Baltasar Brum as guests at Punta Ballena ("Colorado" refers to "Partido Colorado", which is Spanish for "Red Party).
Bruno Fornaroli Mezza (born 7 September 1987 in Salto) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Danubio F.C. in the Uruguayan Primera División as a forward.
Carlos Capelán (born 1948) is a contemporary artist from Montevideo, Uruguay.
Cebollati river is a Uruguayan river that rises in Cuchilla Grande (Big Ridge), flows southwest to northeast and forms a border between Treinta y Tres and Rocha.
On May 11, 2008 he was released from Wuhan Guanggu and spent the second half of 2008 with Defensor Sporting of Uruguay.
Many cities in Latin America, such as Buenos Aires, Argentina; Zacatecas and Guanajuato, in Mexico; Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and Montevideo, Uruguay, richly influenced by many European architectural features, are well known for their many cobblestone streets, which are still operational and in good condition.
The Uruguay Department produces 47% of the nation's poultry, and Concepción del Uruguay together with Gualeguay and Colón make up 85% of Argentine chicken exports.
Dendropsophus nanus, a frog species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay
In 2007, as Interior Minister, Tourné oversaw security for the visit to Uruguay of US President George W. Bush, to whom a significant hostility among many of Ms. Tourné's Frente Amplio colleagues, raised in a tradition which magnifies Che Guevara and his Cuban fellow revolutionaries, was widely noted.
He completed a funereal monument for the Giudice of the City of Montevideo, Uruguay.
After playing for the Portland, where Hague was nominated for rookie of the year, Hague went to Uruguay to play for Danubio F.C. It was decided that Soccer did not deserve David and he quit instead.
The first wind farm in Uruguay, the 10 MW Nuevo Manantial project in Rocha, which will sell the electricity generated to UTE, started operations in October 2008.
In a February 1920 attempt to swim from Colonia, Uruguay across the River Plate to Buenos Aires, Tirabocchi set a record by being in the water for 24 hours and 2 minutes, breaking the record set by Thomas William Burgess in his 1911 Channel swim of 22 hours and 35 minutes.
Facundo Julián Píriz González (born March 27, 1990 in Tarariras, Uruguay), commonly known as Facundo Píriz, is a Uruguayan football player who plays as a Defensive midfielder for Terek Grozny.
Jorge Hernán Menosse Acosta (born 28 April 1987) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays for Recreativo de Huelva, on loan from Montevideo Wanderers F.C., as a central defender.
Jardines de Mater Terra is a private cemetery in Ciudad del Plata, San José Department, Uruguay.
In the 2007 edition held in his country, he helped the national team finish first in the group stage, and scored in the quarterfinals against Uruguay, but in a 1–4 defeat.
Julio Pablo Rodríguez Cristóbal, (born August 9, 1977 in Juan Lacaze, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer.
Lago Merín is a village and resort on the coast of Lake Merín, in the Cerro Largo Department of Uruguay.
The genus contains a single species Lorentziella imbricatum known from central Texas, Mexico, and South America (Argentina, Paraguay, & Uruguay).
Margarita Xirgu, also Margarida Xirgu (18 June 1888, Molins de Rei, (Catalonia, Spain) – 25 April 1969, Montevideo, (Uruguay)) was a Catalan stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America.
1980 Mundialito, international football tournament held in 1980 in Uruguay
The plural of Murga, a form of musical theater performed in Uruguay and in Argentina during the Carnival season
She has also given concerts in Russia, Belgium, Switzerland (in Bulle, at Saint-Pierre des des Liens) where she has a recorded a CD, in Finland, at Kiev (Ukraine in 2003 with Dominique de Williencourt and in November 2008 at the Organ Hall), in North America (New York on 1 November 1998, at the Armenian Evangelical Church of New York, in Montreal and in South America in 1997, along with Olivier Latry (Argentina, Uruguay at the Festival Internacional del Uruguay Órgano,.
In Argentina and Uruguay the Spanish standard is based on the local dialects of Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
Carrera started his career at LDU Quito at the age of 15 in 1960, where he stayed until transferred to Peñarol of Uruguay in 1968.
Some of the titles included Firpo-Dempsey (1923) on the boxing match between American heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and Argentinian champion Luis Firpo, Uruguayos Forever (1924) on Uruguay's Olympic gold medal in soccer, and Humberto de garufa (Little Umberto's Folic, 1924), on the visit of Italian Prince Umberto of Savoy to Buenos Aires.
Barragán became a general manager of Aerolíneas Argentinas in 1978 at Concordia, a border city between Argentina and Uruguay.
A few weeks after returning from Uruguay, Scott was interviewed by the then-Captain (later Admiral) Hyman G. Rickover for a job on a top-secret project involving nuclear energy.
He was one of the few tangueros to play in a cafe in Avenida de Mayo in Buenos Aires and he was the first person to play the tango La Cumparsita in the cafe La Giralda in Montevideo, Uruguay.
After playing in New Orleans, he traveled to Uruguay and was hired by the Bella Vista.
Roque Gastón Máspoli Arbelvide (12 October 1917 in Montevideo – 22 February 2004 in Montevideo) was an Uruguayan football player and coach.
Rudi Pablo Lausarot Bobenrieth (born 3 April 1975 in Young) is a Uruguayan 10 m Air Rifle sport shooter.
San José de Carrasco is a residential neighbourhood and resort of Ciudad de la Costa in Canelones, Uruguay.
It is interesting to point out that, originally, this church was going to be built in Uruguay (Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Malvín); as the economic situation made this impossible, only the apse was built.
It is located along the border with the city of Rivera, Uruguay, which helps form an international city of 200,000 inhabitants.
Silva started his career in Uruguay playing for Central Español, River Plate Montevideo and Defensor Sporting.
Sebastián César Helios Ribas Barbato (born 11 March 1988 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Barcelona Sporting Club on loan from Serie A club Genoa.
The plaque was placed on 10 November 1903 by the crew of the Argentinian Corvette Uruguay on a mission to rescue the members of the Swedish expedition led by Otto Nordenskiöld.
The $250-million TCS building built to house a staff of 30,000 working in it and designed by the Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott was inaugurated on 23 February 2001 by Danilo Astori, the vice-president of Uruguay.
John Smith was first mate on the Columbia, later renamed Arraganta, when it sailed from Baltimore, Maryland under a letter of marque issued by the Uruguayan revolutionary José Gervasio Artigas.
Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. (born 1935), former United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to Costa Rica