El Ombú

{{Short description|Agricultural settlement in Uruguay}}

{{other uses|Ombú (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox settlement

|name = El Ombú

|settlement_type = Agricultural settlement

|coordinates = {{coord|32|51|25|S|57|27|17|W|region:UY_type:city}}

|population_total =

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Uruguay

|subdivision_type1 = Department

|subdivision_name1 = Río Negro

|established_title = Founded

|established_date = 1950

|named_for = Phytolacca dioica tree

|website = {{URL|http://www.elombu.com.uy/}}

}}

El Ombú is a Mennonite agricultural settlement in Río Negro Department, Uruguay. It is located 284 km NW of Montevideo and 29 km SE of Young, near the Route 3.{{cite web |url=http://www.elpais.com.uy/domingo/uruguay-mas-aleman-colonia-ombu.html |title=The most German part of Uruguay|date=11 May 2014 |publisher=EL PAIS }} {{in lang|es}}

Established in 1950 by Vistula delta Mennonites who came from West Prussia, Danzig and Poland, it was the first Mennonite settlement on Uruguayan territory.{{cite book|author1=William Schroeder|author2=Helmut Huebert|title=Mennonite historical atlas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OfyYXOGoMy8C&q=uruguay |accessdate=7 December 2013|year=1996|publisher=Kindred Productions|isbn=978-0-920643-05-1|pages=145–146}} It takes its name from the most popular native tree in Uruguay, ombú (Phytolacca dioica).

Previously the area had a German school, Deutsche Schule El-Ombu."[http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/04/036/0403672.pdf Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672]" (). Bundestag (West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 29/51.