• Thumbnail for Rivera
    Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈβeɾa]) is the capital of Rivera Department of Uruguay. The border with Brazil joins it with the Brazilian city of Santana...
    16 KB (1,120 words) - 03:39, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fructuoso Rivera
    José Fructuoso Rivera y Toscana (17 October 1784 – 13 January 1854) was a Uruguayan general and patriot who fought for the liberation of Banda Oriental...
    7 KB (632 words) - 05:28, 7 December 2024
  • Rivera Department (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈβeɾa]) is a department of the northern region of Uruguay. It has an area of 9,370 km2 (3,620 sq mi) and a...
    12 KB (930 words) - 03:39, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uruguay
    Uruguay (/ˈjʊərəɡwaɪ/ YOOR-ə-gwy, Spanish: [uɾuˈɣwaj] ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country...
    162 KB (14,501 words) - 20:36, 6 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Uruguayan Civil War
    Fructuoso Rivera, who on November 6, 1830, was chosen as the first President of Uruguay. In June 1832 Lavalleja's supporters attempted to kill Rivera and on...
    17 KB (1,572 words) - 18:29, 6 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Uruguayan Portuguese
    is spoken in north-eastern Uruguay, near the Brazilian border, mainly in the region of the twin cities of Rivera (Uruguay) and Santana do Livramento (Brazil)...
    13 KB (788 words) - 02:51, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of presidents of Uruguay
    Fructuoso Rivera, who held the office twice and once as part of the Triumvirate that ruled the country from 1853 to 1854. Most of the presidents of Uruguay have...
    47 KB (414 words) - 02:10, 12 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ronald Araújo
    Ronald Araújo (category Footballers from Rivera Department)
    a Uruguayan father and a Brazilian mother in Rivera, a city near the Brazilian border, Araújo joined Rentistas from hometown club Huracán de Rivera. He...
    27 KB (2,003 words) - 01:23, 7 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Scarlet Rivera
    Donna Shea, better known as Scarlet Rivera is an American violinist. She is best known for her work with Bob Dylan, in particular on his 1976 album Desire...
    10 KB (949 words) - 16:01, 6 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rail transport in Uruguay
    network is currently active. All the Uruguayan lines start from Montevideo, connecting the cities of Paysandú, Salto, Rivera and Río Branco. The rest of the...
    10 KB (967 words) - 21:33, 8 December 2024
  • Airport La Pedrera, Gijón, Asturias, Spain La Pedrera, Rocha, Uruguay La Pedrera, Rivera, Uruguay Pedrera, Seville, Spain Casa Milà, or La Pedrera, a modernist...
    558 bytes (114 words) - 11:24, 22 September 2020
  • Thumbnail for Santana do Livramento
    Santana do Livramento (category Brazil–Uruguay border crossings)
    Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is located along the border with the city of Rivera, Uruguay, forming together an international city of almost 170,000 inhabitants...
    14 KB (1,215 words) - 12:51, 14 December 2024
  • Chapeu International Airport, is an airport serving both the cities of Rivera, Uruguay, and Santana do Livramento, Brazil. The airport was opened on June...
    5 KB (380 words) - 10:15, 26 December 2024
  • The Uruguay national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de Uruguay), nicknamed La Celeste (The Sky Blue), represents Uruguay in international...
    126 KB (4,519 words) - 08:30, 6 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Alan Saldivia
    Alan Saldivia (category Footballers from Rivera Department)
    is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Chilean Primera División club Colo-Colo. Saldivia was born in 2002 in Rivera, Uruguay...
    4 KB (193 words) - 01:24, 7 January 2025
  • when most of the Charrúa men were killed by the Uruguayan army on the orders of President Fructuoso Rivera. The remaining 300 Charrúa women and children...
    107 KB (11,890 words) - 19:32, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of airports in Brazil
    UN/LOCODE 2011-2. UNECE. 28 February 2012. "Uruguay y Brasil declararon binacional al aeropuerto de Rivera". Uruguay Presidencia (in Spanish). 14 August 2023...
    53 KB (264 words) - 16:15, 29 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of airports in Uruguay
    destination lists: South America#Uruguay "Uruguay y Brasil declararon binacional al aeropuerto de Rivera". Uruguay Presidencia (in Spanish). 14 August...
    7 KB (276 words) - 23:10, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Departments of Uruguay
    Uruguay consists of 19 departments (departamentos). Each department has a legislature, called a Departmental Board, and a chief executive called a Intendente...
    11 KB (520 words) - 03:00, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colorado Party (Uruguay)
    was founded in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 17 September 1836. Some of its significant historical leaders were Fructuoso Rivera, Venancio Flores, José Batlle...
    23 KB (772 words) - 10:06, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Transport in Uruguay
    Uruguay consists of 1,673 km of rail network, 7,743 km of paved roads, 1,600 km of navigable waterways, and 11 airports with paved roads. Uruguayan railways...
    7 KB (666 words) - 21:30, 23 October 2024
  • Rivera HVDC Back-to-back station is the first HVDC Back-to-back station situated south of Rivera, Uruguay at 30°56′29″S 55°33′34″W / 30.94139°S 55.55944°W...
    2 KB (255 words) - 00:17, 22 December 2017
  • Thumbnail for Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera
    Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera (category Buildings and structures in Rivera Department)
    Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera is a multi-use stadium in Rivera, Uruguay. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 27,135 people...
    3 KB (102 words) - 07:41, 23 May 2022
  • Caraguatá River is a river in Uruguay. It is situated in the north of the country, in the Tacuarembó Department and the Rivera Department, where the river...
    919 bytes (112 words) - 02:35, 10 February 2021
  • Liberalism in Uruguay organized itself in the nineteenth century in the Colorado (or Red) Party, (Partido Colorado) nowadays an heterogeneous party, divided...
    1 KB (142 words) - 13:09, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aparicio Méndez
    Aparicio Méndez (category People from Rivera Department)
    (24 August 1904 – 27 June 1988) was a Uruguayan lawyer and politician. He was a de facto President of Uruguay from 1976 to 1981 as a non-democratically...
    5 KB (325 words) - 21:17, 1 June 2024
  • Masoller (category Populated places in the Rivera Department)
    Masoller is a village or populated centre of the Rivera Department in northern Uruguay, next to the de facto border with Brazil, in an area where that...
    5 KB (393 words) - 18:56, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flag of Uruguay
    Maldonado Paysandú Río Negro Rivera Rocha Salto San José Soriano Treinta y Tres Coat of arms of Uruguay "Flag of Uruguay". The World Factbook. Central...
    13 KB (862 words) - 00:48, 7 October 2024
  • Luiz Eduardo Garagorri (category Uruguayan people of Brazilian descent)
    Brazilian city that’s on the other side of the border from the Uruguayan city of Rivera. Garagorri has been fighting professionally since 2015, when he...
    12 KB (631 words) - 01:22, 23 October 2024
  • María Helena García Brunel (category People from Rivera Department)
    María Helena García Brunel (Rivera, Uruguay, April 9, 1917 - Florida, Uruguay, July 25, 1996) was an Uruguayan painter also known as Helena Brunel. She...
    3 KB (201 words) - 19:00, 14 June 2024