:Brigadier General Diego Lamas

{{Short description|Train station in northern Uruguay}}

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Brigadier General Diego Lamas is the name of a train station in a rural area of the Artigas Department of northern Uruguay, by decree Ley No. 11.857,{{cite web |url=http://www0.parlamento.gub.uy/leyes/AccesoTextoLey.asp?Ley=13167 |title=LEY N° 11.857 |publisher=República Oriental del Uruguay, Poder Legislativo |date=15 September 1952 |accessdate=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216210424/http://www.parlamento.gub.uy/leyes/AccesoTextoLey.asp?Ley=13167 |archivedate=16 February 2015 }} which regularised the nomenclature of several stations on the Cuareim railway line in honour of nineteenth-century military figures, including Brigadier General {{ill|Diego Eugenio Lamas|es}} (1810–1868).{{cite law |title=Ley Nº 11.857 |trans-title=Designation of the stations Artigas, Baltasar Brum, Brigadier General Diego Lamas and Javier de Viana |url=https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/11857-1952 |language=es |publisher=República Oriental del Uruguay – Poder Legislativo |date=17 September 1952 |access-date=2 May 2025}} During the census of 2004, no population was recorded in this location.{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.gub.uy/fase1new/Artigas/Cuadro7_02.XLS |title=2004 Census of Artigas department |publisher=INE |year=2004 |format=XLS |accessdate=26 July 2011 |archive-date=21 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721213103/http://www.ine.gub.uy/fase1new/Artigas/Cuadro7_02.XLS |url-status=dead }} In the satellite image of 8/10/2003 (currently the latest of the area), about 30 small buildings appear near the station (see {{Coord|30|45|14.2|S|57|3|14.8|W|display=title,inline}}).

The settlement that grew up around the siding is registered by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) as locality code 02934, confirming its status as an independent census entity. The former station lies at kilometre 730 of the broad-gauge branch linking Baltasar Brum with Artigas city.{{cite web |title=Codificador de localidades censales 2011 |trans-title=2011 locality code list |url=https://www5.ine.gub.uy/documents/Codificadores/Por%20localidades/Localidades%20y%20codigos%20NUEVO-1.pdf |language=es |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística |date=2012 |access-date=2 May 2025}}

INE cartography places Diego Lamas on the Belén ridge, roughly 25 km by rural roads east of Baltasar Brum. The 2011 locality plan shows about three dozen dwellings ranged along the disused station yard, a pair of unpaved cross streets and surrounding paddocks devoted to cattle and rice cultivation.{{cite web |title=A3H 02934 Diego Lamas |url=https://www.ine.gub.uy/mapas/censos2011/para%20colgar%20en%20web/pdf/02_UYAR/Localidades/A3H_02934%20Diego%20Lamas.pdf |format=PDF |language=es |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística |date=2012 |access-date=2 May 2025}} The track through Diego Lamas forms part of the Rivera line (Red General Activa) and, under the DNTF'’s 2025 network declaration, is authorised exclusively for freight trains at a maximum 40 km/hour, with no regular passenger timetable.

Census micro-data show a high incidence of unsatisfied basic needs: in 2011, 37.8 % of households lacked a cooking space with piped water, 43.2 % had no refrigerator, and 29.7 % reported multiple comfort-equipment deficits, figures characteristic of settlements with only rudimentary urban services.