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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 2551
Land area (2000): 4.490581 sq. miles (11.630552 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.045921 sq. miles (0.118935 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.536502 sq. miles (11.749487 sq. km)
FIPS code: 43720
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.948506 N, 95.720207 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56265
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Montevideo
Wikipedia
Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . The southernmost capital city in the Americas, Montevideo is situated in the southern coast of the country, on the northeastern bank of the Río de la Plata.
The city was established in 1724 by a Spanish soldier, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst the Spanish- Portuguese dispute over the platine region. It was also under brief British rule in 1807. Montevideo hosted all the matches during the first FIFA World Cup. Montevideo is the seat of the administrative headquarters of Mercosur and ALADI, Latin America’s leading trade blocs, position that entailed comparisons to the role of Brussels in Europe.
Montevideo has consistently been rated as having the highest quality of life of any city in Latin America: by 2015 has held this rank every year during the last decade. , Montevideo was the 19th largest city economy in the continent and 9th highest income earner among major cities. In 2015, it has a GDP of $ 40.5 billion, and a per capita of $24,400.
It is classified as a Beta World City, ranking seventh in Latin America and 73rd in the world. Described as a "vibrant, eclectic place with a rich cultural life", and "a thriving tech center and entrepreneurial culture", Montevideo ranks 8th in Latin America on the 2013 MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index. By 2014, is also regarded as the tenth most gay-friendly city in the world, first in Latin America. It is the hub of commerce and higher education in Uruguay as well as its chief port. The city is also the financial and cultural hub of a larger metropolitan area, with a population of around 2 million.
Montevideo is the capital city of Uruguay.
It may also refer to:
- Montevideo Department, Uruguay
- Montevideo District, Peru
- Montevideo, Virginia, a city in the United States
- Montevideo, Minnesota, a city in the United States
- Montevideo skyscraper, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Montevideo Maru, a Japanese auxiliary vessel sunk in the Second World War
- Montevideo units, a means of assessing contractions during labor
- Montevideo Convention, an international treaty which sets out the nature, rights and duties of statehood
- Rue de Montevideo, a street in the 16th arrondissement of Paris
- Montevideo, God Bless You! (Montevideo, Bog te video), a Serbian film
Montevideo is a 43- storey, residential skyscraper on the river Nieuwe Maas in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The Montevideo logo on the roof is an letter "M" which brings the tower's total height to . The logo is also designed to be a giant wind vane. Designed by the Mecanoo architecture firm, the tower was opened 19 December 2005, featuring 192 apartment units, of office space, and of retail space. The building is named after the Uruguay capital city, Montevideo.
Montevideo was a Holsteiner horse ridden by Uwe Sauer for West Germany in international level dressage competitions between 1983 and 1992.
Montevideo and Sauer competed in the 1983 European Championships, where they took an individual bronze and helped the West German team to back-to-back team golds in the 1983 and 1985 European Championships. The pair also competed at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, where they took a team gold and 6th individually. Other major accomplishments include a team gold and an individual silver at the 1984 German Championships and an individual silver at the 1985 German Championships.
Usage examples of "montevideo".
After leaving Buenos Ayres she made short stops at Montevideo, Rio Janeiro, Maranham, and Para, the latter being the seaport of the Amazon River.
Argentinian ship would land them one month from now at the great Uruguayan seaport of Montevideo on the north shore of the River Plate estuary.
Escribí una carta de muchas páginas, que rompí al zarpar de Montevideo.
Hisfather was a sales rep for a Belfast machinery company, and he was bornin Montevideo, Uruguay.
Habló de municiones que no llegaron y de caballadas rendidas, de hombres dormidos y terrosos tejiendo laberintos de marchas, de Saravia, que pudo haber entrado en Montevideo y que se desvió, "porque el gaucho le teme a la ciudad", de hombres degollados hasta la nuca, de una guerra civil que me pareció menos la colisión de dos ejércitos que el sueño de un matrero.
Ralph Stevenson, the Cultural Attache of the American Embassy in Montevideo.
An Immigration officer took a quick glance at his passport, saw that it bore the stamps of a dozen or more short trips back and forth between Buenos Aires and Montevideo, added one more stamp, and waved him on to the Customs officers standing at the ramp.
God knows what language they write in), Escuela Hermetista Occidental of Montevideo, the National Institute of Cabala in Manhattan, the Central Ohio Temple of Hermetic Science, Tetra-Gnosis of Chicago, Ancient Brethren of the Rosie-Cross of Saint Cyr-sur-Mer, Johannite Fraternity for the Templar Resurrection in Kassel, International Fraternity of Isis in Grenoble, Ancient Bavarian Illuminati of San Francisco, the Sanctuary of Gnosis of Sherman Oaks, the Grail Foundation of America, Sociedade do Graal do Brasil, Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Lectorium Rosicrucianum in Holland, the Grail Movement of Strasbourg, Order of Anubis in New York, Temple of the Black Pentacle in Manchester, Odinist Fellowship in Florida, the Order of the Garter (even the Queen of England must be in that one), the Order of the Vril (neo-Nazi Masons, no address), Militia Templi in Montpellier, Sovereign Order of the Solar Temple in Monte Carlo, Rosy Cross of Harlem (you understand?
Arriving off Montevideo, on the north shore of the Rio de la Plata estuary, the Oxford was almost unnoticed amid the fleet of cargo ships heavy with wool, hides, and textiles.
It was also charged with smuggling into Argentina equipment and supplies intended to aid the escape from internment of the crew of the German pocket battleship GrafSpee, which had been scuttled in the harbor of Montevideo, Uruguay, in December 1939, after a running battle with the Royal Navy.