Montevideo

Montevideo is the laigest ceety, caipital an the chief port o Uruguay. Established in 1726 as a strategic muive amid a Spaingie-Portuguese dispute anent the Viceroyalty o the Río de la Plata, Montevideo haes a population o 1,338,408 an an urban aurie o 1,968,324 (2009). The soothrenmaist caipital ceety in Americae an third maist soootherlie in the warld, it is situatit in the soothren coast o the kintra, on the northren bank o the Río de la Plata (also River Plate). The ceety wis unner brief Breetish rule in 1807 an wis involved in the first major naval battle in the Seicont Warld War: the Battle o the River Plate. It is the place whaur the Montevideo convention wis signed in 1933 bi nineteen naitions o the Americae an aw. The ceety hostit aw 1st FIFA Warld Cup matches in 1930. Montevideo haes a rich airchitectural an cultural heritage, the latter includin tango an candombe. It is hame tae the langest Carnival in the warld. Accordin tae Mercer Human Resource Consulting, in 2007 Montevideo providit the heichest quality o life in Latin Americae.

Internaitional relations
Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Montevideo is twinned wi:
  Barcelona, Spain
  Bogotá, Colombie
  Buenos Aires, Argentinae
  Cádiz, Spain
  Córdoba, Argentinae
  Curitiba, Brazil  Porto Alegre, Brazil
  La Paz, Bolivie
  La Plata, Argentinae
  Madrid, Spain
  Melilla, Spain
  Montevideo, Minnesota, Unitit States  Qingdao, Cheenae
  Quebec Ceety, Canadae
  Rosario, Argentinae
  Saunt Petersburg, Roushie
  São Paulo, Brazil
  Tianjin, Cheenae
  Wellington, New Zealand

References


Category:Caipitals in Sooth Americae
Category:Populatit places in the Montevideo Depairtment
Category:Port ceeties in Sooth Americae
Category:Populatit places established in the 1720s
Category:1726 establishments