Mario Benedetti, one of the many prolific writers who have given land Uruguayan referred to his country as “the small country”. Certainly small in comparison with the size of neighboring Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay, however, is five times larger than Holland, but five times less populated.

Only three million people live in Uruguay, of which just over one third live in Montevideo, the capital of the southernmost continent. The city has an area of about 522 square kilometers, of which approximately 60% are rural and the remaining 40% urban area. The vast green spaces are a feature of the Uruguayan capital, perhaps one of the least polluted in the Latin American context.
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