Uruguay

East Republic Uruguay - the state in the southeast of the South America. Its terrain lays to the east from the river Uruguay, for what the country and has gained the name, in the southeast is flowed about by waters of Atlantic ocean, in the south - a gulf La Plata. The square - 178  thousand sq. km. Capital - Montevideo. The population - nearby 3,15  million persons.

Before the Spanish colonisation of land of Uruguay occupied American Indian nations (charrua, a tank, etc.) which then almost have been completely exterminated. A long time the terrain of Uruguay ministered a stumbling stone between Argentina and Brazil and only in 1828 two countries had been signed the agreement on mutual failure from claims on this terrain and building of the independent state is intoned. The basis of the Uruguayan nation was compounded by offsprings of the Spanish colonists - Creoles. Since second half XIX century the torrent of the European immigrants - Spaniards, Italians, Frenchmen, Germans, slavs here was directed. Nowadays Uruguay - the most Europeanized country of Latin America.

The Environment of Uruguay is uniform enough. A climate soft, moderately wet and warm. On overtopping plains chernozem-like bedrocks that is congenial for cultivation of grain and fruit subtropical crops predominate. A national economy basis is the agriculture with a key industry - the animal husbandry oriented for export.

The Atlantic coast of Uruguay is Most densely stocked. Here the capital - Montevideo - the main cultural and tourist centre of the country is had also. Numerous monuments to generals remind of the big role of army which she plays political life of Uruguay.