Gartental

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Gartental is a Mennonite agricultural settlement in Río Negro Department, Uruguay. It is located {{convert|360|km|abbr=on}} NW of Montevideo, near San Javier, not far from Route 24.

Established in 1951 by Vistula delta Mennonites who came from West Prussia, Danzig and Poland to Uruguay.{{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}} Its German name means "garden valley".

Previously the area had a German school, Deutsche Schule Gartental."[http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/04/036/0403672.pdf Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160312191648/http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/04/036/0403672.pdf Archive]). Bundestag (West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 29/51.