Montevideo#Administration

There are several explanations for the word Montevideo. All agree that "Monte" refers to the Cerro de Montevideo, the hill situated across the Bay of Montevideo, but there is disagreement about the etymological origin of the "video" part.{{Cite web |last=Nelson Ormazábal |title=Día del Patrimonio |url=http://www.montevideanos.com/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050428222155/http://www.montevideanos.com/index.html |archive-date=28 April 2005 |access-date=17 November 2010 |publisher=montevideanos.com |language=es |quote=Pocas villas con deseos de ser ciudad, tuvieron tantos prenombres hasta llegar al definitivo de Montevideo. Pináculo de la Tentación, Monte de la Detención, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, Monte de San Pedro, Santo Vidio, Monte Seredo, Monte Vidi, Monte veo, Montem Video, Monte Vide Eu, Monte Ovidio, Monte VI D. E-O... Tales fueron, entre el viaje de Amerigo Vespucci (1501) y la fundación por Bruno Mauricio de Zabala (1726), las diversas denominaciones que la elevación al oeste de la bahía recibió.}}

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• Monte vide eu ("I saw a mount") is the most widespread belief{{Cite web |last=Centro Radioaficionados Montevideo |title=Paisaje urbano |url=http://www.qsl.net/cram/pages/mvd.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505123022/http://www.qsl.net/cram/pages/mvd.htm |archive-date=5 May 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=Qsl.net |language=es}} but is rejected by the majority of experts, who consider it unlikely because it involves a mix of dialects. The name would come from a Portuguese expression which means "I saw a mount", wrongly pronounced by an anonymous sailor belonging to the expedition of Fernando de Magallanes on catching sight of the Cerro de Montevideo.
• Montem vídeo ("I see a hill"): This version, a variant of the previous one, suggests that the name comes directly from Latin, stemming from the spontaneous expression of a learned member of Magellan's expedition, who, upon spotting the Cerro de Montevideo, exclaimed: Montem vídeo ("I see a hill"). The rest of the crew, who did not speak Latin, mistakenly registered this as the name of the hill they had just sighted, Monte Vídeo. This theory is supported by numerous maps and documents from the colonial period that refer to the Cerro de Montevideo with the name Monte Vídeo.Travieso, Carlos (1923). «IV - Verdadero origen del nombre de Montevideo». "¡Montem vídeo!" : origen del nombre de Montevideo. IMPRENTA LATINA.
• Monte Vidi: This hypothesis comes from the "Diario de Navegación" (Navigational Calendar) of boatswain Francisco de Albo, member of the expedition of Fernando de Magallanes,{{Cite web |last=Nelson Ormazábal |title=El origen de la palabra "Montevideo" |trans-title=The origin of the word "Montevideo" |url=http://www.montevideanos.com/origen.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213133926/http://www.montevideanos.com/origen.htm |archive-date=13 December 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=montevideanos.com |language=es}} who wrote, "Tuesday of the said [month of January 1520] we were on the straits of Cape Santa María [now Punta del Este], from where the coast runs east to west, and the terrain is sandy, and at the right of the cape there is a mountain like a hat to which we gave the name "Montevidi"."{{cite book |last=de Navarrete |first=M.F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iplTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA290 |title=Colección de los viages y descubrimientos que hicieron por mar los españoles desde fines del siglo XV: con varios documentos inéditos concernientes á la historia de la marina castellana y de los establecimientos españoles en Indias |publisher=Imprenta real |year=1825 |page=290 |language=es |trans-title=Collection of the voyages and discoveries made by the Spanish by sea since the late 15th century: with several unpublished documents concerning the history of the Castilian navy and the Spanish establishments in the Indies |access-date=6 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141459/https://books.google.com/books?id=iplTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA290#v=onepage&q&f=false |archive-date=5 October 2023 |url-status=live |issue=v. 4}} This is the oldest Spanish document that mentions the promontory with a name similar to the one that designates the city, but it does not contain any mention of the alleged cry "Monte vide eu."
• Monte-VI-D-E-O (Monte VI De Este a Oeste, "Sixth mount from east to west"): According to Rolando Laguarda Trías, professor of history, the Spaniards annotated the geographic location on a map or Portolan chart, so that the mount/hill is the VI (6th) mount observable on the coast, navigating Río de la Plata from east to west.{{Cite web |last=Javier Meneses Silva |title=Reseña histórica y datos varios |trans-title=Historical overview and various data |url=http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302094006/http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |archive-date=2 March 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=tacuy.com.uy |language=es}}{{Cite web |last=Ariel Collazo |title=El origen del nombre Montevideo |trans-title=The origin of the name Montevideo|date=7 May 2006 |url=http://www.larepublica.com.uy/editorial/210067-el-origen-del-nombre-montevideo |access-date=20 November 2010 |newspaper=La República |publisher=La Republica 21 |location=Montevideo |language=es |archive-date=30 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430224801/http://www.larepublica.com.uy/editorial/210067-el-origen-del-nombre-montevideo |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Laura Caorsi |title=El sexto monte |url=http://servicios.laverdad.es/nuestratierra/nt08042007/suscr/nec21.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429030704/http://servicios.laverdad.es/nuestratierra/nt08042007/suscr/nec21.htm |archive-date=29 April 2011 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=laverdad.es |language=es}} With the passing of time, these words were unified to "Montevideo". No conclusive evidence has been found to confirm this academic hypothesis, nor can it be asserted with certainty which the other five mounts observable before the Cerro were.
• Monte Ovídio (Monte Santo Ovídio), a less widespread hypothesis of a religious origin, stems from an interpolation in the aforementioned Diario de Navegación of Fernando de Albo, where it is asserted "corruptly now called Santo Vidio" when they refer to the hat-like mount which they named Monte Vidi (that is, the Cerro de Montevideo). Auditus of Braga (Spanish: Ovídio) was the third bishop of the Roman city of Braga (now in Portugal) in 95 CE, where he was always revered; a monument to him was erected there in 1505. Given the relationship that the Portuguese had with the discovery and foundation of Montevideo, and despite the fact that this hypothesis, like the previous ones, lacks conclusive documentation, there have been those who linked the name of Santo Ovídio or Vídio (appearing on some maps of the time) with the subsequent derivation of the name "Montevideo" given to the region since the early years of the 16th century.

When the Portuguese invaded the Banda Oriental and annexed it as the province of Cisplatina until 1831, they called the city {{lang|pt|Montevidéu}}, and pronounced as {{IPA|pt-PT|mõtɨviˈðew|lang}}.

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Between 1680 and 1683, Portugal founded the city of Colonia do Sacramento in the region across the bay from Buenos Aires. This city met with no resistance from the Spanish until 1723, when they began to place fortifications on the elevations around Montevideo Bay. On 22 November 1723, Field Marshal {{interlanguage link|Manuel de Freitas da Fonseca|pt}} of Portugal built the Montevieu fort.

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A Spanish expedition was sent from Buenos Aires, organized by the Spanish governor of that city, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala. On 22 January 1724, the Spanish forced the Portuguese to abandon the location and started populating the city, initially with six families moving in from Buenos Aires and soon thereafter by families arriving from the Canary Islands who were known as Guanches or Canarians. There was also one significant early Italian resident by the name of Jorge Burgues.{{Cite web |last=Carlos Maggi |title=La Paloma, la historia y el futuro |trans-title=La Paloma, the history and the future |url=http://200.40.120.164/08/08/24/predit_365682.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429050121/http://200.40.120.164/08/08/24/predit_365682.asp |archive-date=29 April 2011 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=El País |language=es}}

A census of the city's inhabitants was performed in 1724 and then a plan was drawn delineating the city and designating it as San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo, later shortened to Montevideo. The census counted more than 100 families of Galician and Canary Islands origin, more than 1000 indigenous people, mostly Guaraní, as well as some trafficked slaves of Bantu origin.

A few years after its foundation, Montevideo became the main city of the region north of the Río de la Plata and east of the Uruguay River, competing with Buenos Aires for dominance in maritime commerce. The importance of Montevideo as the main port of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata brought it in confrontations with the city of Buenos Aires in various occasions, including several times when it was taken over to be used as a base to defend the eastern province of the Viceroyalty from Portuguese incursions.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

In 1776, Spain made Montevideo its main naval base (Real Apostadero de Marina) for the South Atlantic, with authority over the Argentine coast, Fernando Po, and the Falklands.{{Cite web |title=La Armada Nacional a través del tiempo |url=http://www.armada.mil.uy/general/historia/historia-armada.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514003200/http://www.armada.mil.uy/general/historia/historia-armada.html |archive-date=14 May 2011 |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=www.armada.mil.uy}} Until the end of the 18th century, Montevideo remained a fortified area, today known as Ciudad Vieja.

File:Monte Video from the Anchorage outside the Harbour.png (1820). The earliest securely dated picture of the city.The watercolour can be securely dated from its inclusion in Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, p.xxix, published by R. Ackermann, London, 1820. No depiction of the city of earlier secure date has yet been produced.]]

On 3 February 1807, British troops under the command of General Samuel Auchmuty and Admiral Charles Stirling occupied the city during the Battle of Montevideo (1807), but it was recaptured by the Spanish in the same year on 2 September when John Whitelocke was forced to surrender to troops formed by forces of the Banda Oriental—roughly the same area as modern Uruguay—and of Buenos Aires.{{Cite web |title=Segunda Invasión Inglesa (1807) |trans-title=Second English Invasion (1807) |url=http://www.oni.escuelas.edu.ar/2003/SAN_LUIS/128/2invac.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721193505/http://www.oni.escuelas.edu.ar/2003/SAN_LUIS/128/2invac.htm |archive-date=21 July 2010 |access-date=15 November 2010 |publisher=ONI.edu.er |language=es}} After this conflict, the governor of Montevideo Francisco Javier de Elío opposed the new viceroy Santiago de Liniers, and created a government Junta when the Peninsular War started in Spain, in defiance of Liniers. Elío disestablished the Junta when Liniers was replaced by Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros.

During the May Revolution of 1810 and the subsequent uprising of the provinces of Rio de la Plata, the Spanish colonial government moved to Montevideo. During that year and the next, Uruguayan revolutionary José Gervasio Artigas united with others from Buenos Aires against Spain.{{Cite web |last=Nelson Ormazába |title=Historia |url=http://www.montevideanos.com/historia.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000830095731/http://www.montevideanos.com/historia.htm |archive-date=30 August 2000 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=Montevideanos.com |language=es}} In 1811, the forces deployed by the Junta Grande of Buenos Aires and the gaucho forces led by Artigas started a siege of Montevideo, which had refused to obey the directives of the new authorities of the May Revolution. The siege was lifted at the end of that year, when the military situation started deteriorating in the Upper Peru region.

The Spanish governor was expelled in 1814. In 1816, Portugal invaded the recently liberated territory and in 1821, it was annexed to the Banda Oriental of Brazil. It was named {{interlanguage link|Imperial Cidade|pt|lt=Imperial City}} by Emperor Pedro I when the city was part of the Empire of Brazil as the capital of the Cisplatina province. Juan Antonio Lavalleja and his band called the Treinta y Tres Orientales ("Thirty-Three Orientals") re-established the independence of the region in 1825. Uruguay was consolidated as an independent state in 1828, with Montevideo as the nation's capital. In 1829, the demolition of the city's fortifications began and plans were made for an extension beyond the Ciudad Vieja, referred to as the "Ciudad Nueva" ("new city"). Urban expansion, however, moved very slowly because of the events that followed.{{Cite web |last=IMM |date=22 April 2010 |title=History of Centro |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/historia/barrios/centro-0 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426044126/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/historia/barrios/centro-0 |archive-date=26 April 2011 |access-date=16 November 2010 |website=montevideo.gub.uy |language=es}}

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Uruguay's 1830s were dominated by the confrontation between Manuel Oribe and Fructuoso Rivera, the two revolutionary leaders who had fought against the Empire of Brazil under the command of Lavalleja, each of whom had become the caudillo of their respective faction.{{Cite web |title=Historia General de las Relaciones Exteriores de la Argentina (1806–1989) |trans-title=General History of the Foreign Relations of Argentina (1806–1989) |url=http://www.argentina-rree.com/4/4-019.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303235246/http://www.argentina-rree.com/4/4-019.htm |archive-date=3 March 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=La situación en el Uruguay y el Litoral durante la década de 1830 |language=es}} Politics were divided between Oribe's Blancos ("whites"), represented by the National Party, and Rivera's Colorados ("reds"), represented by the Colorado Party, with each party's name taken from the color of its emblems. In 1838, Oribe was forced to resign from the presidency; he established a rebel army and began a long civil war, the Guerra Grande, which lasted until 1851.

The city of Montevideo suffered a siege of eight years between 1843 and 1851, during which it was supplied by sea with British and French support. By 1843 Montevideo's population of thirty thousand inhabitants was highly cosmopolitan with Uruguayans making up only a third of it. The remaining were chiefly Italian (4205), Spanish (3406), Argentine (2553), Portuguese (659), English (606) and Brazilians (492).{{Cite journal |last=Etchechury Barrera |first=Mario |year=2017 |title="Defensores de la humanidad y la civilización". Las legiones extranjeras de Montevideo, entre el mito cosmopolita y la eclosión de las 'nacionalidades' (1838–1851) |url=http://ojs.uc.cl/index.php/rhis/article/view/7534/7060 |journal=Historia |language=es |volume=50 |issue=II |pages=491–524 |access-date=14 August 2020 |archive-date=19 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919194032/http://ojs.uc.cl/index.php/rhis/article/view/7534/7060 |url-status=live }} Oribe, with the support of the then conservative Governor of Buenos Aires Province Juan Manuel de Rosas, besieged the Colorados in Montevideo, where the latter were supported by the French Legion, the Italian Legion, the Basque Legion and battalions from Brazil. Finally in 1851, with the additional support of Argentine rebels who opposed Rosas, the Colorados defeated Oribe. The fighting however resumed in 1855, when the Blancos came to power, which they maintained until 1865. Thereafter, the Colorado Party regained power, which they retained until the middle of the 20th century.

After the end of hostilities, a period of growth and expansion started for the city. In 1853 a stagecoach bus line was established joining Montevideo with the newly formed settlement of Unión and the first natural gas street lights were inaugurated.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} From 1854 to 1861 the first public sanitation facilities were constructed. In 1856 the Teatro Solís was inaugurated, 15 years after the beginning of its construction. By Decree, in December 1861 the areas of Aguada and Cordón were incorporated to the growing Ciudad Nueva (New City). In 1866, an underwater telegraph line connected the city with Buenos Aires. The statue of Peace, La Paz, was erected on a column in Plaza Cagancha and the building of the Postal Service as well as the bridge of Paso Molino were inaugurated in 1867.{{Cite web |title=Cronología de Montevideo 1742–1990 (PDF) |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/sites/default/files/articulo/cronologia_0.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914063223/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/sites/default/files/articulo/cronologia_0.pdf |archive-date=14 September 2013 |access-date=22 November 2010 |publisher=Intendencia de Montevideo}}

In 1868, the horse-drawn tram company Compañía de Tranvías al Paso del Molino y Cerro created the first lines connecting Montevideo with Unión, the beach resort of Capurro and the industrialized and economically independent Villa del Cerro, at the time called Cosmopolis. In the same year, the Mercado del Puerto was inaugurated. In 1869, the first railway line of the company Ferrocarril Central del Uruguay was inaugurated connecting Bella Vista with the town of Las Piedras. During the same year and the next, the neighborhoods Colón, Nuevo París and La Comercial were founded. The Sunday market of Tristán Narvaja Street was established in Cordón in 1870. Public water supply was established in 1871. In 1878, Bulevar Circunvalación was constructed, a boulevard starting from Punta Carretas, going up to the north end of the city and then turning west to end at the beach of Capurro. It was renamed Artigas Boulevard in 1885. By Decree, on 8 January 1881, the area Los Pocitos was incorporated into the Novísima Ciudad (Most New City).

The first telephone lines were installed in 1882 and electric street lights took the place of the gas-operated ones in 1886. The Hipódromo de Maroñas started operating in 1888, and the neighborhoods of Reus del Sur, Reus del Norte and Conciliación were inaugurated in 1889. The new building of the School of Arts and Trades, as well as Zabala Square in Ciudad Vieja were inaugurated in 1890, followed by the Italian Hospital in 1891. In the same year, the village of Peñarol was founded. Other neighborhoods that were founded were Belgrano and Belvedere in 1892, Jacinto Vera in 1895 and Trouville in 1897. In 1894 the new port was constructed, and in 1897, the Central Railway Station of Montevideo was inaugurated.

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In the early 20th century, many Europeans (particularly Spaniards and Italians but also thousands from Central Europe) immigrated to the city. In 1908, 30% of the city's population of 300,000 was foreign-born. In that decade the city expanded quickly: new neighborhoods were created and many separate settlements were annexed to the city, among which were the Villa del Cerro, Pocitos, the Prado and Villa Colón. The Rodó Park and the Estadio Gran Parque Central were also established, which served as poles of urban development.{{Cite web |title=Crecimiento Demográfico en el 1900 |url=http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302094006/http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |archive-date=2 March 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=Tacuy.com.uy |language=es}} During the early 20th century, Uruguay saw huge social changes with repercussions primarily in urban areas. Among these changes were the right to divorce (1907) and women's right to vote.{{Cite web |date=30 March 2007 |title=Historia |url=http://www.adesh.org/archivos_pdf/REPUBLICA%20ORIENTAL%20DEL%20URUGUAY.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430035853/http://www.adesh.org/archivos_pdf/REPUBLICA%20ORIENTAL%20DEL%20URUGUAY.pdf |archive-date=30 April 2011 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=Adesh.org – Fundación para el Fomento y Desarrollo de Hispanoamérica |language=es}} The 1910s saw the construction of Montevideo's Rambla; strikes by tram workers, bakers and port workers; the inauguration of electric trams; the creation of the Municipal Intendencias; and the inauguration of the new port.{{Cite web |last=Javier Meneses Silva |title=red88 |url=https://red8888.me/ |url-status=dead |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=red8888.me |language=es}} In 1913, the city limits were extended around the entire gulf. The previously independent localities of the Villa del Cerro and La Teja were annexed to Montevideo, becoming two of its neighborhoods.{{Cite web |last=Pierre Gautreau |title=La Bahía de Montevideo: 150 años de modificación de un paisaje costero y subacuático |url=http://elgatea.free.fr/mesdocuments/Bahia-alta-resolucion.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112152235/http://elgatea.free.fr/mesdocuments/Bahia-alta-resolucion.pdf |archive-date=12 January 2016 |access-date=15 July 2008 |website=Véase página 3 del archivo |language=es }} During the 1920s, the equestrian statue of Artigas was installed in Plaza Independencia; the Palacio Legislativo was built; the Spanish Plus Ultra flying boat arrived (the first airplane to fly from Spain to Latin America, 1926); prominent politician and former president José Batlle y Ordóñez died (1929); and the ground was broken (1929) for the Estadio Centenario (completed 1930).{{Cite web |last=Javier Meneses Silva |title=Hechos destacados de 1900 |url=http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302094006/http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |archive-date=2 March 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=Tacuy.com.uy |language=es}}

During World War II, a famous incident involving the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee took place in Punta del Este, {{convert|200|km|sp=us}} from Montevideo. After the Battle of the River Plate with the Royal Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy on 13 December 1939, the Graf Spee retreated to Montevideo's port, which was considered neutral at the time. To avoid risking the crew in what he thought would be a losing battle, Captain Hans Langsdorff scuttled the ship on 17 December. Langsdorff committed suicide two days later. The eagle figurehead of the Graf Spee was salvaged on 10 February 2006.{{Cite news |date=10 February 2006 |title=Graf Spee's eagle rises from deep |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4702832.stm |access-date=16 November 2006 |archive-date=2 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070102165220/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4702832.stm |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Stephanie Condron |date= 16 February 2006 |title=The Graf Spee eagle is landed |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/uruguay/1510657/The-Graf-Spee-eagle-is-landed.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/uruguay/1510657/The-Graf-Spee-eagle-is-landed.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=5 July 2010}}{{cbignore}}

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Uruguay began to stagnate economically in the mid-1950s; Montevideo began a decline, later exacerbated by widespread social and political violence beginning in 1968 (including the emergence of the guerrilla Movimiento de Liberación Nacional-Tupamaros) and by the Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973-1985). There were major problems with supply; the immigration cycle was reversed.

From the 1960s to the end of the dictatorship in 1985, around one hundred people died or disappeared because of political violence. In 1974 another hundred Uruguayans also disappeared in Argentina.{{Cite web |title=Violencia |url=http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302094006/http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |archive-date=2 March 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=Tacuy.com.uy |language=es}} In 1980, the dictatorship proposed a new constitution. The project was submitted to a referendum and rejected in the first polls since 1971, with 58% of the votes against and 42% in favor. The result weakened the military and triggered its fall, allowing the return of democracy.{{Cite web |title=Plebiscito constitucional de 1980 |url=http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302094006/http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |archive-date=2 March 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=Tacuy.com.uy |language=es}}

In the 1980s, Pope John Paul II visited the city twice. In April 1987, as head of state of Vatican, he signed a mediation agreement for the conflict of the Beagle Channel.{{Cite web |title=Visitas de Juan Pablo II |url=http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302094006/http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |archive-date=2 March 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=Tacuy.com.uy |language=es}} He also held a large mass in Tres Cruces, declaring the cross located behind the altar as a monument. In 1988, he returned to the country, visiting Montevideo, Florida, Salto and Melo.

The 2002 Uruguay banking crisis affected several industries of Montevideo. In 2017, the city has maintained 15 years of economic growth, with a GDP of $44 billion, and a GDP per capita of $25,900.

Montevideo has consistently been rated as having the highest quality of life of any city in Latin America:{{Cite web |title=Montevideo Travel Guide |url=http://www.fodors.com/world/south-america/uruguay/montevideo |access-date=16 February 2014 |publisher=Fodor'sTravel |archive-date=1 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301054435/http://www.fodors.com/world/south-america/uruguay/montevideo/ |url-status=live }} by 2015{{Cite web |title=2015 Quality of Living Survey |url=http://www.latam.mercer.com/content/mercer/latin-america-and-caribbean/mx/es/newsroom/mercer-calidad-de-vida-internacional-2015.html |access-date=5 March 2015 |publisher=Mercer |language=es |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308062905/https://www.latam.mercer.com/content/mercer/latin-america-and-caribbean/mx/es/newsroom/mercer-calidad-de-vida-internacional-2015.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=2015 Quality of Living Survey |url=http://www.uk.mercer.com/newsroom/2015-quality-of-living-survey.html |access-date=5 March 2015 |publisher=Mercer |archive-date=9 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209025212/http://www.uk.mercer.com/newsroom/2015-quality-of-living-survey.html |url-status=dead }} it held this rank every year during the decade through 2014.

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Montevideo is situated on the north shore of the Río de la Plata, the arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the south coast of Uruguay from the north coast of Argentina; Buenos Aires lies {{convert|230|km|mi|sp=us}} west on the Argentine side. The Santa Lucía River forms a natural border between Montevideo and San José Department to its west. To the city's north and east is Canelones Department, with the stream of Carrasco forming the eastern natural border. The coastline forming the city's southern border is interspersed with rocky protrusions and sandy beaches.[http://www.montevideo.com.uy/enciclopedia/montevid.htm www.montevideo.com.uy Montevideo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030622171900/http://www.montevideo.com.uy/enciclopedia/montevid.htm |date=22 June 2003 }}, Enciclopedia Geográfica del Uruguay, Retrieved on 20 November 2010. The Bay of Montevideo forms a natural harbor, the nation's largest and one of the largest in the Southern Cone, and the finest natural port in the region, functioning as a crucial component of the Uruguayan economy and foreign trade. Various streams crisscross the town and empty into the Bay of Montevideo. Its coastline near the emptying rivers are heavily polluted.{{Cite journal |vauthors=Burone L, Venturini N, Sprechmann P, Valente P, Muniz P |year=2006 |title=Foraminiferal responses to polluted sediments in the Montevideo coastal zone, Uruguay. |journal=Marine Pollution Bulletin |publisher=Sección Oceanología, Facultad de Ciencias, Iguá 4225, Montevideo |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=61–73 |doi=10.1016/j.marpolbul.2005.08.007 |pmid=16194551|bibcode=2006MarPB..52...61B }}

The city has an average elevation of {{convert|43|m|ft|sp=us}}. Its highest elevations are two hills: the Cerro de Montevideo and the Cerro de la Victoria, with the highest point, the peak of Cerro de Montevideo, crowned by a fortress, the Fortaleza del Cerro at a height of {{cvt|134|m|ft}}.{{Cite web |title=Geografía – Cerro de Montevideo |url=http://www.montevideo.com.uy/enciclopedia/grande.htm#Montevideo_Cerro_de_Montevideo |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=Enciclopedia Geográfica del Uruguay |archive-date=5 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105050552/http://www.montevideo.com.uy/enciclopedia/grande.htm#Montevideo_Cerro_de_Montevideo |url-status=live }} Closest cities by road are Las Piedras to the north and the so-called Ciudad de la Costa (a conglomeration of coastal towns) to the east, both in the range of 20 to {{cvt|25|km}} from the city center. The approximate distances to the neighboring department capitals by road are, {{cvt|90|km}} to San Jose de Mayo (San Jose Department) and {{cvt|46|km}} to Canelones (Canelones Department).

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Montevideo has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) in a middle latitude, the city experiences the four seasons. It has cool winters (June to August), warm to hot summers (December to February), mild autumns (March to May) and volatile springs (September to November);{{Cite web |title=About the Climate in Montevideo, Uruguay:Overview |url=http://traveltips.usatoday.com/climate-montevideo-uruguay-16170.html |access-date=16 November 2010 |publisher=Traveltips |archive-date=30 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130012826/http://traveltips.usatoday.com/climate-montevideo-uruguay-16170.html |url-status=live }} The climate is characterized by having mild temperatures, without harsh cold or extreme heat. There are numerous thunderstorms but no tropical cyclones. Rainfall is regular and evenly spread throughout the year, reaching around {{convert|950|mm|in|sp=us}}.{{Cite web |title=Montevideo climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Montevideo weather averages - Climate-Data.org |url=https://en.climate-data.org/america-del-sur/uruguay/montevideo/montevideo-3639/ |access-date=20 September 2019 |website=en.climate-data.org |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308104313/https://en.climate-data.org/america-del-sur/uruguay/montevideo/montevideo-3639/ |url-status=live }}

Winters are generally cool, wet, windy and overcast. The average temperature during this season is just above {{cvt|10|C|F}}. Daytime temperatures are generally between {{cvt|10|C|F}} and {{cvt|18|C|F}}, and night lows between {{cvt|3|C|F}} and {{cvt|10|C|F}}. During this season, there are bursts of icy and relatively dry winds of continental polar air masses, giving an unpleasant chilly feeling to the everyday life of the city, with daytime temperatures around or below {{cvt|8|C|F}} and possible night frosts. These occur few times during winter, with temperatures generally not falling below {{cvt|-2|C|F}} because of the oceanic influence that moderates the temperature; a few kilometres inland, frosts are more common and colder. On the other hand, even in the middle of winter it's not uncommon to have temperatures above {{cvt|20|C|F}} for a few days. Rainfall and sleet are a frequent winter occurrence, but snowfall is extremely rare: flurries have been recorded only four times but with no accumulation, the last one on 13 July 1930 during the inaugural match of the World Cup,{{Cite web |last=FIFA World Cup |title=1930 FIFA World Cup Uruguay : Hosts Uruguay beat arch-rivals to first world crown |url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=1/overview.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070620232908/http://fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=1/overview.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 June 2007 |access-date=14 July 2011 |publisher=FIFA World Cup |location=Zúrich, Suiza}} (the other three snowfalls were in 1850, 1853 and 1917); the alleged 1980 Carrasco snowfall was actually a hailstorm.{{Cite web |last=Andrés Silva Delgado |date=Dec 2010 |title=¿Nevó en Uruguay en el mes de Noviembre? |trans-title=Did it snow in Uruguay on November? |url=http://www.meteorologia.gub.uy/pdf/rrpp/23_43099.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120124230720/http://www.meteorologia.gub.uy/pdf/rrpp/23_43099.pdf |archive-date=24 January 2012 |access-date=29 June 2011 |publisher=Dirección Nacional de Meteorología |location=Montevideo, Uruguay |page=1 |language=es }}

Summers are warm-hot and humid, with less wind than other seasons. The average temperature in this season is

{{cvt|23|C|F}}. Daytime temperatures are usually between {{cvt|24|C|F}} and {{cvt|32|C|F}}, while night lows between {{cvt|14|C|F}} and {{cvt|22|C|F}}. During this season, a moderate wind often blows from the sea in the evenings which has a pleasant cooling effect on the city, in contrast to the more severe summer heat of nearby cities like Buenos Aires. Heat waves come with the north winds, which bring humid and hot air masses from the tropical interior of the continent; temperatures can rise above {{cvt|35|C|F}}. These warm periods are usually followed by thunderstorms, generated by cold fronts from the southwest that lowers temperatures considerably. This phenomenon is regional, and can occur several times all year long.

The autumn in Montevideo is quite pleasant and not so unstable. Daytime temperatures are in general around {{cvt|20|C|F}} and nights around {{cvt|10|C|F}}.

Spring average temperatures are very similar to the autumn, but the weather in that season tends to be more windy and volatile, with more dramatic changes in a short period of time.

Montevideo has an annual average temperature of {{cvt|16.7|°C|1}}. The lowest recorded temperature is {{cvt|−5.6|°C|°F}} while the highest is {{cvt|42.8|°C|°F}}.

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|Jan record high C = 42.8

|Feb record high C = 40.3

|Mar record high C = 38.4

|Apr record high C = 36.7

|May record high C = 32.0

|Jun record high C = 27.8

|Jul record high C = 29.8

|Aug record high C = 32.6

|Sep record high C = 32.7

|Oct record high C = 35.8

|Nov record high C = 38.2

|Dec record high C = 40.8

|year record high C = 42.8

|Jan high C = 27.8

|Feb high C = 27.0

|Mar high C = 25.3

|Apr high C = 22.0

|May high C = 18.5

|Jun high C = 15.6

|Jul high C = 14.7

|Aug high C = 16.7

|Sep high C = 17.9

|Oct high C = 20.7

|Nov high C = 23.7

|Dec high C = 26.4

|year high C = 21.4

|Jan mean C = 23.3

|Feb mean C = 22.8

|Mar mean C = 21.2

|Apr mean C = 18.1

|May mean C = 14.8

|Jun mean C = 11.9

|Jul mean C = 11.0

|Aug mean C = 12.6

|Sep mean C = 13.9

|Oct mean C = 16.5

|Nov mean C = 19.2

|Dec mean C = 21.8

|year mean C = 17.3

|Jan low C = 18.8

|Feb low C = 18.6

|Mar low C = 17.1

|Apr low C = 14.1

|May low C = 11.0

|Jun low C = 8.1

|Jul low C = 7.3

|Aug low C = 8.5

|Sep low C = 9.9

|Oct low C = 12.4

|Nov low C = 14.7

|Dec low C = 17.1

|year low C = 13.1

|Jan record low C = 6.0

|Feb record low C = 6.8

|Mar record low C = 3.8

|Apr record low C = 1.3

|May record low C = -2.0

|Jun record low C = -5.6

|Jul record low C = -5.0

|Aug record low C = -3.8

|Sep record low C = -2.4

|Oct record low C = -1.5

|Nov record low C = 2.5

|Dec record low C = 5.0

|year record low C = -5.6

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|Feb precipitation days = 6

|Mar precipitation days = 6

|Apr precipitation days = 7

|May precipitation days = 6

|Jun precipitation days = 7

|Jul precipitation days = 6

|Aug precipitation days = 7

|Sep precipitation days = 7

|Oct precipitation days = 7

|Nov precipitation days = 7

|Dec precipitation days = 7

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|Feb humidity = 73

|Mar humidity = 76

|Apr humidity = 77

|May humidity = 79

|Jun humidity = 81

|Jul humidity = 80

|Aug humidity = 78

|Sep humidity = 76

|Oct humidity = 74

|Nov humidity = 72

|Dec humidity = 70

|year humidity = 76

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|Feb sun = 234.5

|Mar sun = 220.1

|Apr sun = 162.0

|May sun = 161.2

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|Jul sun = 142.6

|Aug sun = 164.3

|Sep sun = 180.0

|Oct sun = 226.3

|Nov sun = 249.0

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|Augd sun = 5.3

|Sepd sun = 6.0

|Octd sun = 7.3

|Novd sun = 8.3

|Decd sun = 9.1

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| Jan light = 14.2

| Feb light = 13.3

| Mar light = 12.3

| Apr light = 11.2

| May light = 10.3

| Jun light = 9.8

| Jul light = 10.1

| Aug light = 10.9

| Sep light = 11.9

| Oct light = 13

| Nov light = 14

| Dec light = 14.5

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| Feb uv =11

| Mar uv =9

| Apr uv =6

| May uv =3

| Jun uv =2

| Jul uv =2

| Aug uv =4

| Sep uv =6

| Oct uv =8

| Nov uv =10

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|source 2 = Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (sun and humidity 1980–2009),{{Cite web |last1=Castaño |first1=José |last2=Giménez |first2=Agustín |last3=Ceroni |first3=Mauricio |last4=Furest |first4=José |last5=Aunchayna |first5=Rossina |title=Caracterización Agroclimática del Uruguay 1980–2009 |url=http://www.inia.uy/Publicaciones/Documentos%20compartidos/18429021211104157.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212202531/http://www.inia.uy/Publicaciones/Documentos%20compartidos/18429021211104157.pdf |archive-date=12 December 2018 |access-date=12 December 2018 |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria |language=es}} NOAA (precipitation 1991–2020){{cite web |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230807140751/https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-3-WMO-Normals-9120/Uruguay/CSV/Prado_86585.csv |archive-date= 7 August 2023 |url= https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-3-WMO-Normals-9120/Uruguay/CSV/Prado_86585.csv |title= Prado Climate Normals 1991–2020 |work= World Meteorological Organization Climatological Standard Normals (1991–2020) |publisher= National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |access-date= 7 August 2023 |url-status= live }}

Source 3: Weather Atlas(daylight-UV)

|date=August 2010

}}

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{{As of|2010}}, the city of Montevideo has been divided into 8 political municipalities (Municipios), referred to with letters from A to G, including CH, each presided over by a mayor elected by the citizens registered in the constituency. This division, according to the Municipality of Montevideo, "aims to advance political and administrative decentralization in the department of Montevideo, with the aim of deepening the democratic participation of citizens in governance."[http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/institucional/gobiernos-municipales/informacion-general Información general|Intendencia de Montevideo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426043951/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/institucional/gobiernos-municipales/informacion-general |date=26 April 2011 }}. Montevideo.gub.uy (23 August 2010). Retrieved on 20 November 2010. The head of each Municipio is called an alcalde or (if female) alcaldesa.[http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/institucional/gobiernos-municipales/alcaldes-y-alcaldesas Alcaldes y alcaldesas|Intendencia de Montevideo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830143926/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/institucional/gobiernos-municipales/alcaldes-y-alcaldesas |date=30 August 2010 }}. Montevideo.gub.uy. Retrieved on 20 November 2010.

Of much greater importance is the division of the city into 62 barrios: neighborhoods or wards.{{Cite web |title=Barrios of Montevideo, Uruguay |url=http://www.explore-uruguay.com/barrios-of-montevideo-uruguay.html |access-date=19 November 2010 |publisher=Explore Uruguay |archive-date=8 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208074248/http://www.explore-uruguay.com/barrios-of-montevideo-uruguay.html |url-status=live }} Many of the city's barrios—such as Sayago, Ituzaingó and Pocitos—were previously geographically separate settlements, later absorbed by the growth of the city. Others grew up around certain industrial sites, including the salt-curing works of Villa del Cerro and the tanneries in Nuevo París. Each barrio has its own identity, geographic location and socio-cultural activities. A neighborhood of great significance is Ciudad Vieja, that was surrounded by a protective wall until 1829. This area contains most important buildings of the colonial era and early decades of independence.

{{div col|colwidth=26em}}

1. Ciudad Vieja
2. Centro
3. Barrio Sur
4. Aguada
5. Villa Muñoz, Goes, Retiro
6. Cordón
7. Palermo
8. Parque Rodó
9. Tres Cruces
10. La Comercial
11. Larrañaga
12. La Blanqueada
13. Parque Batlle – Villa Dolores
14. Pocitos
15. Punta Carretas
16. Unión
17. Buceo
18. Malvín
19. Malvín Norte
20. Las Canteras
21. Punta Gorda
22. Carrasco
23. Carrasco Norte
24. Bañados de Carrasco
25. Flor de Maroñas
26. Maroñas – Parque Guaraní
27. Villa Española
28. Ituzaingó
29. Castro – Pérez Castellanos
30. Mercado Modelo – Bolívar
31. Brazo Oriental
32. Jacinto Vera
33. La Figurita
34. Reducto
35. Capurro – Bella Vista, Arroyo Seco
36. Prado – Nueva Savona
37. Atahualpa
38. Aires Puros
39. Paso de las Duranas
40. Belvedere
41. La Teja
42. Tres Ombúes – Pueblo Victoria
43. Villa del Cerro
44. Casabó – Pajas Blancas, Rincón del Cerro
45. La Paloma – Tomkinson
46. Paso de la Arena – Los Bulevares – Santiago Vázquez
47. Nuevo París
48. Conciliación
49. Sayago
50. Peñarol – Lavalleja
51. Colón Centro y Noroeste
52. Lezica – Melilla
53. Colón Sudeste – Abayubá
54. Manga – Toledo Chico
55. Casavalle, Barrio Borro
56. Cerrito de la Victoria
57. Las Acacias
58. Jardines del Hipódromo
59. Piedras Blancas
60. Manga
61. Punta de Rieles - Bella Italia
62. Villa García – Manga Rural

{{div col end}}

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File:Letras Montevideo en Pocitos.jpg is the most populous Montevideo neighborhood.]]

The architecture of Montevideo ranges from Neoclassical buildings such as the Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral to the late-modern style of the World Trade Center Montevideo or the {{convert|158|m|ft|adj=on|sp=us}} ANTEL Telecommunication Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the country. Along with the Telecommunications Tower, the Palacio Salvo dominates the skyline of the Bay of Montevideo. The building facades in the Old Town reflect the city's extensive European immigration, displaying the influence of old European architecture. Notable government buildings include the Legislative Palace, the City Hall, Estévez Palace and the Executive Tower. The most notable sports stadium is the Estadio Centenario within Parque Batlle. Parque Batlle, Parque Rodó and Parque Prado are Montevideo's three great parks.{{Cite web |title=Parques y plazas |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/parques-y-plazas |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426044228/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/parques-y-plazas |archive-date=26 April 2011 |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=Intendencia de Montevideo}}

The Pocitos district, near the beach of the same name, has many homes built by Bello and Reboratti between 1920 and 1940, with a mixture of styles. Other landmarks in Pocitos are the "Edificio Panamericano" designed by Raul Sichero,{{Cite book |last=Platero, Guillermo Gómez |title=Guillermo Gómez Platero, arquitecto |publisher=Editorial Dos Puntos |year=2002}} and the "Positano" and "El Pilar" designed by Adolfo Sommer Smith and {{interlanguage link|Luis García Pardo|es}} in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the construction boom of the 1970s and 1980s transformed the face of this neighborhood, with a cluster of modern apartment buildings for upper and upper middle-class residents.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}

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The Palacio Legislativo in Aguada, north of the city center, is the seat of the Uruguayan Parliament. Construction started in 1904 and was sponsored by the government of President José Batlle y Ordóñez.{{Cite web |title=Montevideo Travel Guide |url=http://www.easydestination.net/2MONTEVIDEO.html |access-date=17 November 2010 |publisher=Easy Destination |archive-date=1 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501105337/http://www.easydestination.net/2MONTEVIDEO.html |url-status=dead }} It was designed by Italian architects Vittorio Meano and {{interlanguage link|Gaetano Moretti|it}}, who planned the building's interior. Among the notable contributors to the project was sculptor José Belloni, who contributed numerous reliefs and allegorical sculptures.

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{{main|World Trade Center Montevideo}}

World Trade Center Montevideo officially opened in 1998, but work was completed in 2009. The complex is composed of three towers, two three-story buildings called World Trade Center Plaza and World Trade Center Avenue and a large central square called Towers Square. World Trade Center 1 was the first building to be inaugurated, in 1998.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} It has 22 floors and 17,100 square meters of space. That same year the avenue and the auditorium were raised. World Trade Center 2 was inaugurated in 2002, a twin tower of World Trade Center 1. Finally, in 2009, World Trade Center 3 and the World Trade Center Plaza and the Towers Square were inaugurated. It is located between the avenues Luis Alberto de Herrera and 26 de Marzo and has 19 floors and {{convert|27000|sqm|sqft|sp=us}} of space. The {{convert|6300|sqm|sqft|adj=on|sp=us}} {{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} World Trade Center Plaza is designed to be a center of gastronomy opposite Towers Square and Bonavita St.

The Towers Square, is an area of remarkable aesthetic design, intended to be a platform for the development of business activities, art exhibitions, dance and music performances and social places. This square connects the different buildings and towers which comprise the WTC Complex and it is the main access to the complex. The square contains various works of art, notably a sculpture by renowned Uruguayan sculptor Pablo Atchugarry. World Trade Center 4, with 40 floors and {{convert|53500|sqm|sqft|sp=us}} of space is under construction {{As of|2010|lc=y}}.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}

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{{Main|Telecommunications Tower (Montevideo)}}

Torre de las Telecomunicaciones (Telecommunications Tower) or Torre Antel (Antel Tower) is the {{convert|158|m|ft|sp=us}}, 37-floor headquarters of Uruguay's government-owned telecommunications company, ANTEL, and is the tallest building in the country. It was designed by architect Carlos Ott. It is situated by the side of the Bay of Montevideo. The tower was completed by American Bridge Company and other design/build consortium team members on 15 March 2000.

When its construction was announced, many politicians complained about its cost (US$40 million, plus US$25 million for the construction of the other 5 buildings of the Telecommunications Complex). Problems during its construction turned the original US$65 million price into US$102 million.

{{main|Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo}}

File:Alcohólicos Anónimos, Montevideo URU.jpg

Ciudad Vieja was the earliest part of the city to be developed and today it constitutes a prominent barrio of southwest Montevideo. It contains many colonial buildings and national heritage sites, but also many banks, administrative offices, museums, art galleries, cultural institutions, restaurants and nightclubs, making it vibrant with life. Its northern coast is the main port of Uruguay, one of the few deep-draft ports in the Southern Cone of South America.

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Montevideo's most important plaza is Plaza Independencia, located between Ciudad Vieja and downtown Montevideo. It starts with the Gateway of The Citadel at one end and ends at the beginning of 18 de Julio Avenue. It is the remaining part of the wall that surrounded the oldest part of the city.{{Cite web |title=Visiting Colonia and Montevideo Uruguay: Recipe for a great visit |url=http://www.offbeattravel.com/uruguay-montevideo-colonia-attractions.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204134633/http://www.offbeattravel.com/uruguay-montevideo-colonia-attractions.html |archive-date=4 December 2010 |access-date=18 November 2010 |publisher=Offbeattravel}} Several notable buildings are located here.

File:TEATRO SOLIS 01.JPGThe Solís Theatre is Uruguay's oldest theater. It was built in 1856 and is owned by the government of Montevideo. In 1998, the government of Montevideo started a major reconstruction of the theater, which included two US$110,000 columns designed by Philippe Starck. The reconstruction was completed in 2004, and the theater reopened in August of that year.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/archivo/Nota.asp?nota_id=630831|title="Se reabrió el Teatro Solís", La Nación, 27 August 2004|access-date=28 November 2018|archive-date=31 August 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040831055419/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/archivo/Nota.asp?nota_id=630831|url-status=dead}} The plaza is also the site of the offices of the President of Uruguay (both the Estévez Palace and the Executive Tower). The Artigas Mausoleum is located at the center of the plaza. Statues include that of José Gervasio Artigas, a hero of Uruguay's independence movement; an honor guard keeps vigil at the Mausoleum.{{Cite web |title=Sights in Montevideo |url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/uruguay/montevideo/sights |access-date=16 November 2010 |publisher=Lonely Planet |archive-date=30 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430184547/http://www.lonelyplanet.com/uruguay/montevideo/sights |url-status=live }}

Palacio Salvo, at the intersection of 18 de Julio Avenue and Plaza Independencia, was designed by the architect Mario Palanti and completed in 1925. Palanti, an Italian immigrant living in Buenos Aires, used a similar design for his Palacio Barolo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Palacio Salvo stands {{convert|100|m|ft|sp=us}} high, including its antenna. It is built on the former site of the Confitería La Giralda, renowned for being where Gerardo Matos Rodríguez wrote his tango "La Cumparsita" (1917.){{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110430014946/http://www.jaimegorenstein.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1099&Itemid=1090 Buscando la Verdad – La Cumparcita]}} at {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20181102220625/http://jaimegorenstein.com/ jaimegorenstein.com]}} Palacio Salvo was originally intended to function as a hotel but is now a mixture of offices and private residences.{{Cite book |last=Mimi Bohm |title=Buenos Aires, Art Nouveau |publisher=Ediciones Xavier Verstraeten |year=2005 |location=Buenos Aires}}

Also of major note in Ciudad Vieja is the Plaza de la Constitución (or Plaza Matriz). During the first decades of Uruguayan independence this square was the main hub of city life. On the square are the Cabildo—the seat of colonial government—and the Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral. The cathedral is the burial place of Fructuoso Rivera, Juan Antonio Lavalleja and Venancio Flores. Another notable square is Plaza Zabala with the equestrian statue of Bruno Mauricio de Zabala. On its south side, Palacio Taranco, once residence of the Ortiz Taranco brothers, is now the Museum of Decorative Arts. A few blocks northwest of Plaza Zabala is the Mercado del Puerto, another major tourist destination.

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Parque BatlleFinzer, p. 98 (formerly: Parque de los Aliados,{{Cite web |title=El Parque Batlle |url=http://www.detubarrio.com/noticias/El-Parque-Batlle.php?not=14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430184357/http://www.detubarrio.com/noticias/El-Parque-Batlle.php?not=14 |archive-date=30 April 2011 |access-date=14 November 2010 |website=detubarrio.com |language=es}} translation: "Park of the Allies") is a major public central park, located south of Avenida Italia and north of Avenue Rivera. Along with Parque Prado and Parque Rodó it is one of three large parks that dominate Montevideo.Finzer, p. 11 The park and surrounding area constitute one of the 62 neighborhoods (barrios) of the city. The barrio of Parque Batlle is one of seven coastal barrios, the others being Buceo, Carrasco, Malvin, Pocitos, Punta Carretas, and Punta Gorda.{{Cite book |last=Couriel |first=Jack |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Uq7GKtzfoEC&pg=PA77 |title=De cercanías a lejanías. Fragmentación sociourbana del Gran Montevideo |publisher=Ediciones Trilce |year=2010 |isbn=978-9974-32-539-5 |page=77 |language=es |access-date=14 November 2015 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141502/https://books.google.com/books?id=1Uq7GKtzfoEC&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} The barrio of Parque Battle includes four former districts: Belgrano, Italiano, Villa Dolores and Batlle Park itself and borders the neighborhoods of La Blanqueada, Tres Cruces, Pocitos and Buceo. It has a high population density and most of its households are of medium-high- or high-income.{{Cite book |last=World Bank |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5pCnEesgTEC&pg=PA225 |title=The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities: Markets and Perception |publisher=World Bank Publications |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8213-7837-3 |page=225 |access-date=14 November 2015 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141538/https://books.google.com/books?id=W5pCnEesgTEC&pg=PA225#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} Villa Dolores, a sub-district of Parque Batlle, took its name from the original villa of Don Alejo Rossell y Rius and of Doña Dolores Pereira de Rossel. On their grounds, they started a private collection of animals that became a zoological garden and was passed to the city in 1919;{{Cite web |date=19 January 2010 |title=Zoologico Villa Dolores |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/zoo-villa-dolores/zoologico-villa-dolores |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426044824/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/zoo-villa-dolores/zoologico-villa-dolores |archive-date=26 April 2011 |access-date=16 November 2010 |website=montevideo.gub.uy |language=es}} in 1955 the Planetarium of Montevideo was built within its premises.{{Cite web |title=Planetario |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/planetario/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217013314/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/planetario/ |archive-date=17 December 2010 |access-date=16 November 2010 |website=montevideo.gub.uy |language=es}}

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Parque Batlle is named in honor of José Batlle y Ordóñez, President of Uruguay from 1911 to 1915. The park was originally proposed by an Act of March 1907, which also projected wide boulevards and avenues.{{Cite web |title=Parque Batlle |url=http://www.parquebatlle.tk/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071104125557/http://www.parquebatlle.tk/ |archive-date=4 November 2007 |access-date=14 November 2010 |publisher=Parque Batlle |language=es}} French landscape architect, Carlos Thays, began the plantings in 1911. In 1918, the park was named Parque de los Aliados, following the victory of the Allies of World War I. On 5 May 1930, after significant expansion, it was again renamed as Parque Batlle y Ordóñez, in memory of the prominent politician and president, who had died in 1929. The park was designated a National Historic Monument Park in 1975.{{Cite web |last=Prensa, Comunicación y Relaciones Públicas |title=Parque Batlle |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/parques-y-plazas/parque-batlle |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426044155/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/parques-y-plazas/parque-batlle |archive-date=26 April 2011 |access-date=14 November 2010 |website=Government of Montevideo |language=es}} {{As of|2010}}, the park covers an area of {{convert|60|ha|acre}} and is considered the "lung" of the Montevideo city due to the large variety of trees planted here.Parque Batlle, Retrieved 15 November 2010{{Better source needed|date=November 2015|reason=WP:CIRCULAR}}

The Estadio Centenario, the national football stadium, opened in 1930 for the first World Cup, and later hosted several other sporting grounds of note (see Sports).

In 1934, sculptor José Belloni's "La Carreta", a bronze monument on granite base,{{Cite web |date=18 November 2009 |title=Monumento a La Carreta en el Parque Batlle |url=http://www.turismoenuruguay.com.uy/articulos/articulos_masinfo.php?id=61&secc=articulos&cr=&path=0.549.550 |access-date=14 November 2010 |website=turismoenuruguay.com.uy |language=es |archive-date=27 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427084137/http://www.turismoenuruguay.com.uy/articulos/articulos_masinfo.php?id=61&secc=articulos&cr=&path=0.549.550 |url-status=dead }} was installed on Avenida Lorenzo Merola near Estadio Centenario. One of several statues in the park, it depicts yoked oxen pulling a loaded wagon.{{Cite book |last=Box |first=Ben |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FU0O28CP63IC&pg=PP33 |title=The South American handbook |publisher=Footprint Travel Guides |year=2003 |isbn=1-903471-70-2 |volume=80 |page=1260 |access-date=14 November 2015 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141512/https://books.google.com/books?id=FU0O28CP63IC&pg=PP33 |url-status=live }} It was designated a national monument in 1976. Another statue on the same side of the park is a bronze copy of the Discobolus of Myron.

On the west side of Parque Batlle, on Artigas Boulevard, the 1938 Obelisk of Montevideo is a monument dedicated to those who created the first Constitution. The work of sculptor José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín (1891–1975), it is a three-sided granite obelisk, {{convert|40|m|ft|sp=us}} tall, with bronze statues on its three sides, representing "Law", "Liberty", and "Force", respectively. It has been a National Heritage Site since 1976.{{Cite web |date=21 November 2009 |title=Obelisco a los Constituyentes |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/arquitectura/estatuas-y-monumentos/obelisco-los-constituyentes |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426044019/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/arquitectura/estatuas-y-monumentos/obelisco-los-constituyentes |archive-date=26 April 2011 |access-date=14 November 2010 |website=montevideo.gub.uy |language=es}}

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Established in 1873, the largest of Montevideo's six main public parks is the {{convert|1.06|km2|acre|adj=on}} Parque Prado.{{Cite book |last=International Bureau of the American Republics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vdQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA947 |title=Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics |publisher=The Bureau |year=1908 |volume=27 |page=947 |access-date=14 November 2015 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141501/https://books.google.com/books?id=vdQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA947#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} Located in the northern part of the city, the Miguelete Creek flows through the park and the neighborhood and of the same name. It is surrounded by the avenues Agraciada, Obes Lucas, Joaquín Suárez, Luis Alberto de Herrera and by the streets Castro and José María Reyes.

The most frequented areas of the park are the Rosedal, a public rose garden with pergolas, the Botanical Garden, the area around the Hotel del Prado, as well as the Rural del Prado, a seasonal cattle and farm animal fairground. The Rosedal contains four pergolas, eight domes, and a fountain; its 12,000 roses were imported from France in 1910.{{Cite web |date=14 June 2010 |title=Rosedal |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/parques-y-plazas/rosedal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426044540/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/parques-y-plazas/rosedal |archive-date=26 April 2011 |access-date=18 November 2010 |publisher=Government of Montevideo}} There are several jogging paths along the Miguelete river.

The Presidential Residence is located behind the Botanical Gardens. Established in 1930, Juan Manuel Blanes Museum is situated in the Palladian villa, a National Heritage Site since 1975, and includes a Japanese garden.{{Cite web |date=6 September 2010 |title=Museo Blanes |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/museos-y-salas/museo-blanes |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426044450/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/museos-y-salas/museo-blanes |archive-date=26 April 2011 |access-date=18 November 2010 |publisher=Government of Montevideo}} The Professor Atilio Lombardo Museum and Botanical Gardens were established in 1902. The National Institute of Physical Climatology and its observatory are also in the Prado.{{Cite book |last=Mesa |first=Rosa Quintero |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z5XfAAAAMAAJ&q=Prado+montevideo |title=Uruguay |publisher=Xerox University Microfilms |year=1973 |isbn=0-8357-0079-8 |edition=Snippet view |page=139 |access-date=22 October 2020 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141541/https://books.google.com/books?id=z5XfAAAAMAAJ&q=Prado+montevideo |url-status=live }}

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Parque Rodó is both a barrio (neighborhood) of Montevideo and a park which lies mostly outside the limits of the neighborhood itself and belongs to Punta Carretas. The name "Rodó" commemorates José Enrique Rodó, an important Uruguayan writer whose monument is in the southern side of the main park. The park was conceived as a French-style city park.{{Cite web |title=Pocitos Punta Carretas |url=http://www.uruguaynow.com/pocitos_punta_carretas.php |access-date=21 November 2010 |publisher=Uruguay Now |archive-date=1 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501052518/http://www.uruguaynow.com/pocitos_punta_carretas.php |url-status=live }} Apart from the main park area which is delimited by Sarmiento Avenue to the south, Parque Rodó includes an amusement park; the Estadio Luis Franzini, belonging to Defensor Sporting; the front lawn of the Faculty of Engineering and a strip west of the Club de Golf de Punta Carretas that includes the Canteras ("quarry") del Parque Rodó, the Teatro de Verano ("summer theatre") and the Lago ("lake") del Parque Rodó.{{Cite web |title=Parque Rodó – Google Maps |url=https://www.google.es/maps/place/Parque+Rod%C3%B3,+Montevideo,+Departamento+de+Montevideo,+Uruguay/@-34.9142554,-56.1723553,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x959f81a4e4e649a1:0xeeee2dc3874fb014!8m2!3d-34.9127992!4d-56.1651513 |access-date=20 September 2019 |publisher=Google Maps |archive-date=20 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920082125/https://www.google.es/maps/place/Parque%2BRod%25C3%25B3,%2BMontevideo,%2BDepartamento%2Bde%2BMontevideo,%2BUruguay/@-34.9142554,-56.1723553,16z/data%3D!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x959f81a4e4e649a1:0xeeee2dc3874fb014!8m2!3d-34.9127992!4d-56.1651513 |url-status=live }}

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On the east side of the main park area is the National Museum of Visual Arts. On this side, a street market takes place every Sunday. On the north side is an artificial lake with a little castle housing a municipal library for children. An area to its west is used as an open-air exhibition of photography. West of the park, across the coastal avenue Rambla Presidente Wilson, stretches Ramirez Beach. Directly west of the main park area, and belonging to Parque Rodó barrio, there is the former Parque Hotel, now called Edifício Mercosur, the seat of the parliament of the member countries of the Mercosur.{{Cite web |title=Visitas al Parlamento |url=http://www.parlamentodelmercosur.org/innovaportal/v/158/1/secretaria/visitas_al_parlamento.html?rightmenuid=154 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513183859/http://www.parlamentodelmercosur.org/innovaportal/v/158/1/secretaria/visitas_al_parlamento.html?rightmenuid=154 |archive-date=13 May 2011 |access-date=21 November 2010 |publisher=Parlamento del Mercosur}} During the guerilla war the Tupamaros frequently attacked buildings in this area, including the old hotel.Buchert, Beverly J., The Tupamaros: anomalies of guerrilla war, University of Kansas, 1979

The first set of subsidiary forts was planned by the Portuguese at Montevideo in 1701 to establish a front-line base to stop frequent insurrections by the Spaniards emanating from Buenos Aires. These fortifications were planned within the River Plate estuary at Colonia del Sacramento. However, this plan came to fruition only in November 1723, when Captain Manuel Henriques de Noronha reached the shores of Montevideo with soldiers, guns and colonists on his warship Nossa Senhora de Oliveara. They built a small square fortification. However, under siege from forces from Buenos Aires, the Portuguese withdrew from Montevideo Bay in January 1724, after signing an agreement with the Spaniards.{{Cite book |last=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q1a4j2HNmjUC&pg=PA817 |title=Historic cities of the Americas: an illustrated encyclopedia, Volume 1 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2005 |isbn=1-57607-027-1 |page=817 |access-date=17 November 2010 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141502/https://books.google.com/books?id=q1a4j2HNmjUC&pg=PA817 |url-status=live }}

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Fortaleza del Cerro overlooks the bay of Montevideo. An observation post at this location was first built by the Spanish in the late 18th century. In 1802, a beacon replaced the observation post; construction of the fortress began in 1809 and was completed in 1839. It has been involved in many historical developments and has been repeatedly taken over by various sides. In 1907, the old beacon was replaced with a stronger electric one. It has been a National Monument since 1931{{Cite web |title=Cerro – Municipio A |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/datos-%C3%BAtiles/barrios/cerro-municipio |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426045044/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/datos-%C3%BAtiles/barrios/cerro-municipio |archive-date=26 April 2011 |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=Intendencia de Montevideo}} and has housed a military museum since 1916. Today it is one of the tourist attractions of Montevideo.

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Punta Brava Lighthouse (Faro Punta Brava), also known as Punta Carretas Lighthouse, was erected in 1876. The lighthouse is {{convert|21|m|ft|sp=us}} high and its light reaches {{convert|15|mi|km|order=flip|abbr=on}} away, with a flash every ten seconds.{{Cite web |title=Our Neighbourhood |url=http://www.hotelcaladivolpe.com.uy/img/pdf/cala_vecindario_fr.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430223823/http://www.hotelcaladivolpe.com.uy/img/pdf/cala_vecindario_fr.pdf |archive-date=30 April 2011 |access-date=19 November 2010 |publisher=Hotel Caladivolpe}} In 1962, the lighthouse became electric. The lighthouse is important for guiding boats into the Banco Inglés Buceo Port or the entrance of the Santa Lucía River.

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The Rambla is an avenue that goes along the entire coastline of Montevideo. The literal meaning of the Spanish word rambla is "avenue" or "watercourse", but in the Americas it is mostly used as "coastal avenue", and since all the southern departments of Uruguay border either the Río de la Plata or the Atlantic Ocean, they all have ramblas as well. As an integral part of Montevidean identity, the Rambla has been included by Uruguay in the Indicative List of World Heritage sites,{{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/delegates/uruguay/noticial.html#actualiza|title=UNESCO: Rambla of Montevideo candidacy}} though it has not received this status. Previously, the entire Rambla was called Rambla Naciones Unidas ("United Nations"), but in recent times different names have been given to specific parts of it.

The Rambla is a very important site for recreation and leisure in Montevideo. Every day, a large number of people go there to take long strolls, jog, bicycle, roller skate, fish and even—in a special area—skateboard. Its {{convert|27|km|adj=on|sp=us}} length makes it one of the longest esplanades in the world.{{Cite web |title=Rambla |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/costa/rambla |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101026233515/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/costa/rambla |archive-date=26 October 2010 |access-date=12 December 2010 |publisher=Intendencia de Montevideo}}

Montevideo is noted for its beaches, which are particularly important because 60% of the population spends the summer in the city. Its best-known beaches are Ramírez, Pocitos, Carrasco, Buceo and Malvín. Further east and west are other beaches including the Colorada, Punta Espinillo, Punta Yeguas, Zabala and Santa Catarina.

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There are five large cemeteries in Montevideo, all administered by the "Fúnebre y Necrópolis" annex of the Intendencia of Montevideo.{{Cite web |title=Fúnebre y Necrópolis | Intendencia de Montevideo |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/dependencias/1087 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805084235/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/dependencias/1087 |archive-date=5 August 2011 |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Montevideo.gub.uy}}

The largest cemetery is the Cementerio del Norte, located in the northern-central part of the city. The Central Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio central), located in Barrio Sur in the southern area of the city, is one of Uruguay's main cemeteries. It was one of the first cemeteries (in contrast to church graveyards) in the country, founded in 1835 at a time when burials were still carried out by the Catholic Church. It is the burial place of many of the most famous Uruguayans, such as Eduardo Acevedo, Delmira Agustini, Luis Batlle Berres, José Batlle y Ordóñez, Juan Manuel Blanes, François Ducasse, father of Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse),[http://www.elpais.com.uy/Suple/DS/09/02/22/sds_400223.asp Arte oculto en el cementerio] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830091521/http://www.elpais.com.uy/Suple/DS/09/02/22/sds_400223.asp |date=30 August 2010 }} – elpais.com.uy {{in lang|es}} Luis Alberto de Herrera, Benito Nardone, José Enrique Rodó, and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín.

The other large cemeteries are the Cementerio del Buceo, Cementerio del Cerro, and Cementerio Paso Molino.

The British Cemetery Montevideo (Cementerio Británico) is another of the oldest cemeteries in Uruguay, located in the Buceo neighborhood. Many noblemen and eminent persons are buried there. The cemetery originated when the Englishman Thomas Samuel Hood purchased a plot of land in the name of the English residents in 1828. However, in 1884 the government compensated the British by moving the cemetery to Buceo to accommodate city growth. A section of the cemetery, known as British Cemetery Montevideo Soldiers and Sailors, contains the graves of quite a number of sailors of different nationalities, although the majority are of British descent. One United States Marine, Henry de Costa, is buried here.[http://montevideo.usembassy.gov/usaweb/paginas/55-00EN.shtml Lone U.S. Marine in British Cemetery honoured on U.S. Marine Corps birthday] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527200342/http://montevideo.usembassy.gov/usaweb/paginas/55-00EN.shtml |date=27 May 2010 }}

In 1860, Montevideo had 57,913 inhabitants including a number of people of African origin who had been brought as slaves and had gained their freedom around the middle of the century. By 1880, the population had quadrupled, mainly because of the great European immigration. In 1908, its population had grown massively to 309,331 inhabitants.{{Cite web |last=Javier Meneses Silva |title=Datos en el cuerpo de todo el artículo |url=http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302094006/http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |archive-date=2 March 2009 |access-date=15 November 2010 |publisher=Tacuy.com.uy |language=es}} In the course of the 20th century the city continued to receive large numbers of European immigrants, especially Spanish and Italian, followed by Portuguese Brazilians, French, Germans, English, Irish, Swiss, Austrians, Poles, Dutch, Greek, Hungarians, Russians, Croats, Lebanese, Armenians, and Jews of various origins.{{Cite web |title=Emigración en Uruguay |date=23 November 2004 |url=http://html.rincondelvago.com/emigracion-en-uruguay.html |access-date=25 November 2010 |publisher=El Rincón del Vago |archive-date=9 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101209142548/http://html.rincondelvago.com/emigracion-en-uruguay.html |url-status=dead }} The last wave of immigrants occurred between 1945 and 1955.

According to the census survey carried out between 15 June and 31 July 2004, Montevideo had a population of 1,325,968 persons, compared to Uruguay's total population of 3,241,003. The female population was 707,697 (53.4%) while the male population accounted for 618,271 (46.6%). The population had declined since the previous census carried out in 1996, with an average annual growth rate of −1.5 per thousand. The continual decline has been documented since the census period of 1975–1985, which showed a rate of −5.6 per thousand. The decrease is due in large part to lowered fertility, partly offset by mortality, and to a smaller degree in migration. The birth rate declined by 19% from 1996 (17 per thousand) to 2004 (13.8 per thousand). Similarly, the total fertility rate (TFR) declined from 2.24 in 1996 to 1.79 in 2004. However, mortality continued to fall with life expectancy at birth for both sexes increasing by 1.73 years.{{Cite web |title=Census Phase I, 2004 |url=http://www.ine.gub.uy/fase1new/montevideo/montevideo_pres.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.ine.gub.uy/fase1new/montevideo/montevideo_pres.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |publisher=Government of Uruguay |pages=4, 11, 13, 17, 22, 23}}

In the census of 2011, Montevideo had a population of 1,319,108.

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay{{Cite web |year=2012 |title=Statistics of urban localities (1963–2004) |url=http://www.ine.gub.uy/biblioteca/toponimico/Categorizaci%F3n%20localidades%20urbanas%20orden%20alfab%E9tico.pdf |access-date=7 September 2012 |publisher=INE |archive-date=13 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113143716/http://www.ine.gub.uy/biblioteca/toponimico/Categorizaci%F3n%20localidades%20urbanas%20orden%20alfab%E9tico.pdf |url-status=dead }}

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The Intendancy of Montevideo was first created by a legal act of 18 December 1908.[http://www.ccee.edu.uy/ensenian/catderpu/material/departamentales.PDF Propiedad de las Chacras del Ejido de Bella Union] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427042410/http://www.ccee.edu.uy/ensenian/catderpu/material/departamentales.PDF |date=27 April 2011 }}, Asociación de Escribanos del Uruguay Informe de la Comisión de Derecho Público {{in lang|es}} The municipality's first mayor (1909–1911) was Daniel Muñoz. Municipalities were abolished by the Uruguayan Constitution of 1918, effectively restored during the 1933 military coup of Gabriel Terra, and formally restored by the 1934 Constitution. The 1952 Constitution again decided to abolish the municipalities; it came into effect in February 1955. Municipalities were replaced by departmental councils, which consisted of a collegiate executive board with 7 members from Montevideo and 5 from the interior region. However, municipalities were revived under the 1967 Constitution and have operated continuously since that time.

Since 1990, Montevideo has been partially decentralized into 18 areas; administration and services for each area is provided by its Zonal Community Center (Centro Comunal Zonal, CCZ), which is subordinate to the Intendancy of Montevideo.[http://www.chasque.net/vecinet/goblocal.htm Los Organos del Gobierno Local y el Presupuesto Participativo de Montevideo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101118094746/http://www.chasque.net/vecinet/goblocal.htm |date=18 November 2010 }}. Chasque.net. Retrieved on 20 November 2010.[http://municipalesps.com/documentos/descentenmdeo.htm La descentralización en Montevideo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513183858/http://municipalesps.com/documentos/descentenmdeo.htm |date=13 May 2011 }}. Municipalesps.com. Retrieved on 20 November 2010. The boundaries of the municipal districts of Montevideo were created on 12 July 1993, and successively amended on 19 October 1993, 6 June 1994 and 10 November 1994. In 2010, the city CCZ were abolished and eight municipalities were created instead.

The city government of Montevideo performs several functions, including maintaining communications with the public, promoting culture, organizing society, caring for the environment and regulating traffic. The city hall is the Palacio Municipal on 18 de Julio Avenue in the Centro area of Montevideo.[http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/institucional/tramites-y-servicios Trámites y servicios|Intendencia de Montevideo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426045333/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/institucional/tramites-y-servicios |date=26 April 2011 }}. Montevideo.gub.uy. Retrieved on 20 November 2010.

The legislative branch of government, the Junta Departamental, or the Congress of Montevideo, governs the Department of Montevideo. The Junta, composed of 31 unsalaried elected members, is responsible for such things as the freedom of the citizens, the regulation of cultural activities, the naming of streets and public places, and the placement of monuments; it also responds to proposals of the Intendant in various circumstances.{{Cite web|url=http://www.juntamvd.gub.uy/es/parlamento/index.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130421225825/http://www.juntamvd.gub.uy/es/parlamento/index.html |url-status=dead |title=El Parlamento de Montevideo|archive-date=21 April 2013}} Its seat is the architecturally remarkable Casa de Francisco Gómez in Ciudad Vieja.

A 2016 private ranking named Subnational Legislative Online Opening Index measured the data availability in official websites, scoring Montevideo as the second most open district nationally at 17.50 points.{{Cite web |title=Índice de Apertura en línea de Órganos Legislativos Subnacionales |url=https://uruguayatp.org/index.php/posts/53-indice-de-apertura-en-linea-de-organos-legislativos-subnacionales |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814135003/https://uruguayatp.org/index.php/posts/53-indice-de-apertura-en-linea-de-organos-legislativos-subnacionales |archive-date=14 August 2018 |access-date=28 January 2019}}

{{main|Intendant of Montevideo}}

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1. Daniel Muñoz (1909–1911)
2. Ramón V. Benzano (1911–1914)
3. Juan M. Aubriot (1914–1914)
4. Santiago Rivas (1914–1915)
5. Francisco Accinelli (1915–1919)
6. Alberto Dagnino (1933–1937)
7. Luis Alberto Zanzi (1937–1938)
8. Horacio Acosta y Lara (1938–1942)
9. Benigno Paiva (1942–1942)
10. Pedro Onetti (1942–1943)
11. Juan Pedro Fabini (1943–1947)
12. Andrés Martínez Trueba (1947–1948)
13. Álvaro Correa Moreno (1950–1951)
14. Germán Barbato (1951–1954)
15. Armando Malet (1954–1955)
16. Board members of the Concejo Departamental (1955–1967)
17. Glauco Segovia (1967–1967)
18. Carlos Bartolomé Herrera (1967–1969)
19. Oscar Víctor Rachetti (1969–1971)
20. E. Mario Peyrot (1971–1972)
21. Oscar Víctor Rachetti (1972–1983)
22. Juan Carlos Payssé (1983–1985)
23. Aquiles R. Lanza (1985–1985)
24. Julio Iglesias Álvarez (1985–1986)
25. Eduardo Fabini Jiménez (1989–1990)
26. Tabaré Vázquez (1990–1994)
27. Tabaré González (1994–1995)
28. Mariano Arana (1995–2000 / 2000–2005)
29. Adolfo Pérez Piera (2005)
30. Ricardo Ehrlich (2005–2010)
31. Hyara Rodríguez (2010)
32. Ana Olivera (2010–2015)
33. Daniel Martínez (2015–2019)
34. Christian di Candia (2019–2020)
35. Carolina Cosse (2020-incumbent)

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In recent years Montevideo nightlife has moved to Parque Rodó, where a large concentration of buildings cater for the recreational interests of young people during the night time. Under a presidential decree which went into effect on 1 March 2006, smoking is prohibited in any public place with roofing,{{Cite act|type=Presidential Decree|index=|date=5 September 2005|article=|legislature=|title=PROHIBICIÓN DE FUMAR EN OFICINAS PÚBLICAS. DEC. Nº 268/005|trans-title=PROHIBITION OF SMOKING IN PUBLIC OFFICES.|url=http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2005/09/ASUNTO%20142_23%2008%202005_00001.PDF|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2005/09/ASUNTO%20142_23%2008%202005_00001.PDF|archive-date=2022-10-09|url-status=live|language=Spanish}} {{Cite web |url=http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2005/09/ASUNTO%20142_23%2008%202005_00001.PDF |title=Archived copy |access-date=14 December 2020 |archive-date=29 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329144353/http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2005/09/ASUNTO%20142_23%2008%202005_00001.PDF |url-status=bot: unknown }} and there is a prohibition on the sale of alcohol in certain businesses from 21.00 to 9.00.{{Failed verification|date=December 2020|reason=Not mentioned within the presidential decree prohibiting smoking though this may exist elsewhere. Exact times mentioned differ between this page and the page on Spanish Wikipedia.}}

Montevideo has been part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the area of Literature since December 2015.{{Cite web |title=Montevideo {{!}} Creative Cities Network |url=https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/montevideo |access-date=3 October 2018 |website=en.unesco.org |language=en |archive-date=11 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511152531/https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/montevideo |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |title=Montevideo – Edinburgh City of Literature |language=en-GB |work=Edinburgh City of Literature |url=http://www.cityofliterature.com/cities-of-literature/cities-of-literature/montevideo/ |url-status=dead |access-date=3 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003235355/http://www.cityofliterature.com/cities-of-literature/cities-of-literature/montevideo/ |archive-date=3 October 2018}}

Montevideo has a very rich architectural heritage and a number of writers, artists, and musicians. Uruguayan tango is a unique form of dance that originated in the neighborhoods of Montevideo towards the end of the 1800s. Tango, candombe and murga are the three main styles of music in this city. The city is also the center of the cinema of Uruguay, which includes commercial, documentary and experimental films. There are two movie theater companies running seven cinemas,{{Cite web |title=Movie Center |url=http://www.moviecenter.com.uy/home/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923143752/http://www.moviecenter.com.uy/home/ |archive-date=23 September 2011 |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Movie Center}}{{Cite web |title=MVD CMS 5.1.2 |url=http://www.grupocine.com.uy/ |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Grupocine |archive-date=24 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924232719/http://www.grupocine.com.uy/ |url-status=live }} around ten independent ones{{Cite web |title=cines de montevideo cine uruguayo peliculas uruguayas |url=http://www.reservas.net/alojamiento_hoteles/montevideo_cines.htm |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Reservas.net |archive-date=17 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917203609/http://www.reservas.net/alojamiento_hoteles/montevideo_cines.htm |url-status=live }} and four art film cinemas in the city.{{Cite web |title=Cinemateca Uruguaya |url=http://www.cinemateca.org.uy/ |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Cinemateca.org.uy |archive-date=25 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925142455/http://www.cinemateca.org.uy/ |url-status=live }} The theater of Uruguay is admired inside and outside Uruguayan borders. The Solís Theatre is the most prominent theater in Uruguay and the oldest in South America.{{Cite book |last=Salgado, Susana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXag39roRosC&q=Solis+Theatre+oldest&pg=PA496 |title=The Teatro Solís: 150 years of opera, concert, and ballet in Montevideo |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-8195-6594-6 |access-date=22 October 2020 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141548/https://books.google.com/books?id=lXag39roRosC&q=Solis+Theatre+oldest&pg=PA496#v=onepage&q=Solis%20Theatre%20oldest&f=false |url-status=live }} There are several notable theatrical companies and thousands of professional actors and amateurs. Montevideo playwrights produce dozens of works each year; of major note are Mauricio Rosencof, {{interlanguage link|Ana Magnabosco|es}} and {{interlanguage link|Ricardo Prieto|es}}.

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The daily newspaper El País sponsors the Virtual Museum of Contemporary Uruguayan Art. The director and curator of the Museum presents exhibitions in "virtual spaces, supplemented by information, biographies, texts in English and Spanish".{{Cite web |title=Uruguay /Museums, Exhibition Centres |url=http://universes-in-universe.de/america/ury/mus/e-montevideo.htm |access-date=17 November 2010 |publisher=Universes in Universe |archive-date=24 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824073924/http://www.universes-in-universe.de/america/ury/mus/e-montevideo.htm |url-status=live }}

In the early 1970s (1973, to be particular) when the military junta took over power in Uruguay, art suffered in Montevideo. The art studios went into protest mode, with Rimer Cardillo, one of the country's leading artists, making the National Institute of Fine Arts, Montevideo a "hotbed of resistance". This resulted in the military junta coming down heavily on artists by closing the Fine Art Institute and carting away all the presses and other studio equipment. Consequently, the learning of fine arts was only in private studios run by people who had been let out of jail, in works of printing and on paper and also painting and sculpture. It resumed much later.{{Cite book |last=Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bOno-rgMuP8C&pg=PA11 |title=Rimer Cardillo: Impressions (and Other Images of Memory) 16 October – 12 December 2004 |publisher=SUNY Press |year=2004 |isbn=1-4384-3110-4 |pages=11–13 |access-date=17 November 2010 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141552/https://books.google.com/books?id=bOno-rgMuP8C&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}

The first public library in Montevideo was formed by the initial donation of the private library of Father José Manuel Pérez Castellano, who died in 1815. Its promoter, director and organizer was Father Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga, who also made a considerable donation along with donations from José Raimundo Guerra, as well as others from the Convent of San Francisco in Salta.{{Cite web |title=mec-historia |url=http://www.bibna.gub.uy/historia.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110428032254/http://www.bibna.gub.uy/historia.html |archive-date=28 April 2011 |access-date=12 December 2010 |publisher=Ministerio de Ecucacion y Cultura |language=es}} In 1816 its stock was 5,000 volumes.{{Cite journal |last=Appel |first=John Wilton |date=1994 |title=Francisco José de Caldas: A Scientist at Work in Nueva Granada |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1006650 |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |volume=84 |issue=5 |pages=1–154 |doi=10.2307/1006650 |jstor=1006650 |issn=0065-9746 |access-date=7 October 2022 |archive-date=7 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007161955/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1006650 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }} The building of the National Library of Uruguay (Biblioteca Pública de Uruguay) was designed by Luis Crespi in the Neoclassical style and occupies an area of {{convert|4000|sqm|sqft|sp=us}}. Construction began in 1926 and it was inaugurated in 1964. Its collection amounts to 900,000 volumes.{{Cite web |title=Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay |url=http://www.bibna.gub.uy/situacion_actual.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124140816/http://www.bibna.gub.uy/situacion_actual.html |archive-date=24 November 2009 |access-date=15 November 2010 |publisher=bibna.gub.uy |language=es}}{{Cite web |title=26 de mayo de 1816: fundación de la primera Biblioteca Pública |url=http://www.uruguayeduca.edu.uy/Portal.Base/Web/VerContenido.aspx?ID=202343 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501102249/http://www.uruguayeduca.edu.uy/Portal.Base/Web/VerContenido.aspx?ID=202343 |archive-date=1 May 2011 |access-date=12 December 2010 |publisher=Uruguay Educa |language=es}}

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The city has a long and rich literary tradition. Although Uruguayan literature is not limited to the authors of the capital (Horacio Quiroga was born in Salto and Mario Benedetti in Paso de los Toros, for instance), Montevideo has been and is the center of the editorial and creative activity of literature.

In 1900, the city had a remarkable group of writers, including José Enrique Rodó, Carlos Vaz Ferreira, Julio Herrera y Reissig, Delmira Agustini and Felisberto Hernández. Montevideo was then called the "Atenas del Plata" or the "Athens of the Rio de la Plata".{{Cite web |last=Javier Meneses Silva |title=Movimiento cultural |url=http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302094006/http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |archive-date=2 March 2009 |access-date=16 November 2010 |publisher=Tacuy.com.uy |language=es}}

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Among the outstanding authors of Montevideo of the second half of the 20th century are Juan Carlos Onetti, Antonio Larreta, Eduardo Galeano, Marosa di Giorgio and Cristina Peri Rossi.{{Cite web |title=El poder de la palabra |url=http://www.epdlp.com/paise.php?pais=Uruguay |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101025162441/http://www.epdlp.com/paise.php?pais=Uruguay |archive-date=25 October 2010 |access-date=16 November 2010 |publisher=epdlp.com |language=es}}

A new generation of writers has become known internationally in recent years. These include Eduardo Espina (essayist and poet), Fernando Butazzoni (novelist), {{interlanguage link|Rafael Courtoisie|es}} (poet) and Hugo Burel (short story writer and novelist).

In Montevideo, as throughout the Rio de Plata region, the most popular forms of music are tango, milonga and vals criollo. Many notable songs originated in Montevideo including "El Tango supremo", "La Cumparsita", "La Milonga", "La Puñalada" and "Desde el Alma", composed by notable Montevideo musicians such as Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Pintín Castellanos and Rosita Melo.{{Cite web |title=Montevideo, Uruguay |url=http://www.spanishcourses.info/cities/montevideo-uruguay-41-EN.htm |access-date=18 November 2010 |publisher=Spanish courses |archive-date=28 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128172814/http://spanishcourses.info/cities/montevideo-uruguay-41-EN.htm |url-status=live }} Tango is deeply ingrained in the cultural life of the city and is the theme for many of the bars and restaurants in the city. 20th. century composers like three-time Grammy nominated Miguel del Aguila have taken Uruguayan tango to international classical music audiences. Fun Fun' Bar, established in 1935, is one of the most important places for tango in Uruguay as is El Farolito, located in the old part of the city and Joventango, Café Las Musas, Garufa and Vieja Viola. The city is also home to the Montevideo Jazz Festival and has the Bancaria Jazz Club bar catering for jazz enthusiasts.

{{main|Cuisine of Montevideo}}

The center of traditional Uruguayan food and beverage in Montevideo is the Mercado del Puerto ("Port Market"). Beef is very important in Uruguayan cuisine and an essential part of many dishes. A torta frita is a pan-fried cake consumed in Montevideo and throughout Uruguay. It is generally circular, with a small cut in the center for cooking, and is made from wheat flour, yeast, water and sugar or salt.{{Cite web |title=Torta Frita Cuando Llueve |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/costumbres/torta-frita-cuando-llueve |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426044739/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/costumbres/torta-frita-cuando-llueve |archive-date=26 April 2011 |access-date=21 November 2010 |publisher=Montevideo.gub.uy}} Montevideo has a variety of restaurants, from traditional Uruguayan cuisine to Japanese cuisine.

{{Further|:Category:People from Montevideo}}

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• Fede Álvarez (Film director)
• Delmira Agustini (writer)
• Miguel del Aguila (composer)
• Julio Albino (footballer)
• Marcelina Almeida (writer)
• Victoria Alonsoperez (engineer)
• Odile Baron Supervielle (writer, journalist)
• Luis Batlle Berres (president of Uruguay)
• José Batlle y Ordóñez (president of Uruguay)
• Mario Benedetti (writer)
• Roy Berocay (journalist and author)
• Juan Manuel Blanes (artist)
• Baltasar Brum (Uruguayan statesman)
• Raúl Javiel Cabrera (painter)
• Graciela Cánepa (actress and television presenter)
• Rodrigo Casagrande (former footballer)
• Manuel Ceferino Oribe (Uruguayan politician)
• Gonzalo Curbelo (footballer)
• Eladio Dieste (civil engineer)
• Jorge Drexler (musician and actor)
• Esteban Echeverría (Argentine writer)
• Claudio Elías (footballer)
• Marcel Felder (tennis player)
• Julio Ferrón (footballer)
• Diego Forlán (footballer)
• Enzo Francescoli (footballer)
• Giuliana Luz Grabina (philosopher)
• José Gervasio Artigas (Uruguayan revolutionary)
• Andrea Ghidone (Vedette, model, dancer, actress)
• Felisberto Hernández (writer)
• Julio Herrera y Reissig (poet)
• Juana de Ibarbourou (poet)
• Pedro Ipuche Riva (classical composer)
• Jules Laforgue (French poet)
• Rolando Laguarda Trías (historian)
• Felipe Laurino (footballer)
• Lautréamont, Comte de. Isidore Ducasse (French poet)
• Rosita Melo (composer, poet, writer)
• Martin Mendez (bass player for Swedish metal outfit Opeth)
• Ricardo Moller (footballer)
• Paolo Montero (footballer)
• Amado Nervo (Mexican author)
• Juan Carlos Onetti (writer)
• Natalia Oreiro (actress, singer)
• Álvaro Recoba (footballer)
• Nando Parrado (writer)
• Maxi Pereira (footballer)
• Cristina Peri Rossi (writer)
• Pedro Piedrabuena (billiard player)
• Olga Piria (painter and goldsmith)
• Jorge Plachot (former footballer)
• Arturo C. Porzecanski (Wall Street economist)
• Teresa Porzecanski (anthropologist and writer)
• Rubén Rada (Musician)
• Andy Ram (Israeli tennis player)
• José Enrique Rodó (philosopher)
• Rubén Rodríguez (footballer)
• Mariano Rubbo (Uruguayan footballer)
• Gabe Saporta (musician and entrepreneur)
• Carlos Savio (footballer)
• Erwin Schrott (operatic bass-baritone)
• José Serebrier (conductor and composer)
• Jules Supervielle (French author)
• Joaquín Torres-García (painter)
• Obdulio Varela (footballer)
• Tabaré Vázquez (president of Uruguay)
• Santiago Vecino (illustrator and artist)
• Helen Velando (author)
• Margarita Xirgu (Spanish actress)
• China Zorrilla (actress)
• José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín (sculptor)
• Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (poet)
• Elena Zuasti (stage actress)

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{{main|List of museums in Montevideo}}

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The Centro Cultural de España, as well as Asturian and cultural centers, testify to Montevideo's considerable Spanish heritage. Montevideo also has important museums including Museo Torres García,{{Cite web |title=Museo Torres García |url=http://www.torresgarcia.org.uy/ |access-date=16 November 2010 |publisher=torresgarcia.org.uy |language=es |archive-date=19 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619040517/http://www.torresgarcia.org.uy/ |url-status=live }} {{interlanguage link|Museo José Gurvich|es|Museo Gurvich}}, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales and Museo Juan Manuel Blanes etc.

The Montevideo Cabildo was the seat of government during the colonial times of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. It is located in front of Constitution Square, in Ciudad Vieja. Built between 1804 and 1869 in Neoclassical style, with a series of Doric and Ionic columns, it became a National Heritage Site in 1975. In 1958, the Municipal Historic Museum and Archive was inaugurated here. It features three permanent city museum exhibitions, as well as temporary art exhibitions, cultural events, seminars, symposiums and forums.{{Cite web |date=24 January 2011 |title=Museo y Archivo Histórico Municipal – Cabildo | Intendencia de Montevideo |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/museos-y-salas/museo-y-archivo-historico-municipal-cabildo |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014115245/http://montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/museos-y-salas/museo-y-archivo-historico-municipal-cabildo |archive-date=14 October 2011 |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Montevideo.gub.uy}}

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The Palacio Taranco is located in front of the Plaza Zabala, in the heart of Ciudad Vieja. It was erected in the early 20th century as the residence of the Ortiz Taranco brothers on the ruins of Montevideo's first theater (of 1793), during a period in which the architectural style was influenced by French architecture. The palace was designed by French architects Charles Louis Girault and {{interlanguage link|Jules-Léon Chifflot|fr}} who also designed the Petit Palais and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. It passed to the city from the heirs of the Tarancos in 1943, along with its precious collection of Uruguayan furniture and draperies and was deemed by the city as an ideal place for a museum; in 1972 it became the Museum of Decorative Arts of Montevideo and in 1975 it became a National Heritage Site.{{Cite book |last1=Shawn Blore |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kmW-7wfC1TMC&q=montevideo+hotel&pg=PA688 |title=Frommer's South America |last2=Alexandra de Vries |last3=Eliot Greenspan |last4=Haas Mroue |last5=Michael Luongo |last6=Charlie O'Malley |last7=Kristina Schreck |last8=Neil E. Schlecht |publisher=Frommer's, John Wiley and Sons |year=2003 |isbn=0-471-77897-4 |edition=3 |pages=686–92 |access-date=22 October 2020 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141506/https://books.google.com/books?id=kmW-7wfC1TMC&q=montevideo+hotel&pg=PA688 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=25 August 2008 |title=Uruguay Cultural » Museo de Artes Decorativas Palacio Taranco |url=http://www.portaluruguaycultural.gub.uy/2009/08/museo-de-artes-decorativas-palacio-taranco-2/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907034325/http://www.portaluruguaycultural.gub.uy/2009/08/museo-de-artes-decorativas-palacio-taranco-2/ |archive-date=7 September 2009 |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Portaluruguaycultural.gub.uy}} The Decorative Arts Museum has an important collection of European paintings and decorative arts, ancient Greek and Roman art and Islamic ceramics of the 10th–18th century from the area of present-day Iran. The palace is often used as a meeting place by the Uruguayan government.

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The National History Museum of Montevideo is located in the historical residence of General Fructuoso Rivera. It exhibits artifacts related to the history of Uruguay. In a process begun in 1998, the National Museum of Natural History (1837) and the National Museum of Anthropology (1981), merged in 2001, becoming the National Museum of Natural History and Anthropology. In July 2009, the two institutions again became independent.{{Cite web |title=Museos Nacionales de Historia Natural y Antropología |url=http://www.mec.gub.uy/munhina/mnhna.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101103073715/http://www.mec.gub.uy//munhina//mnhna.htm |archive-date=3 November 2010 |access-date=18 November 2010 |website=mec.gub.uy}} The Historical Museum has annexed eight historical houses in the city, five of which are located in the Ciudad Vieja. One of them, on the same block with the main building, is the historic residence of Antonio Montero, which houses the Museo Romantico.{{Cite web |title=Bienvenidos al Museo Histórico Nacional – Ministerio de Educación y Cultura – Uruguay |url=http://www.mhn.gub.uy/ |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Mhn.gub.uy |archive-date=20 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920202341/http://www.mhn.gub.uy/ |url-status=live }} Also nearby is the Museo Casa de José Garibaldi where Giuseppe Garibaldi lived in the 1840s while participating in the Uruguayan Civil War.{{Cite web |title=Casa de José Garibaldi |url=https://app.mec.gub.uy/innovaportal/v/1178/8/mec/casa-de-jose-garibaldi |access-date=25 January 2022 |publisher=Mhn.gub.uy |archive-date=26 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126041345/https://app.mec.gub.uy/innovaportal/v/1178/8/mec/casa-de-jose-garibaldi |url-status=live }}

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The Museo Torres García is located in the Old Town, and exhibits Joaquín Torres García's unusual portraits of historical icons and cubist paintings akin to those of Picasso and Braque.{{Cite web |title=Montevideo, Uruguay |url=http://gosouthamerica.about.com/od/urumontevideo/a/Montevideo.htm |access-date=16 November 2010 |publisher=About.com:Gosouthamerica |archive-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226080645/https://www.tripsavvy.com/montevideo-visitors-guide-1637548 |url-status=dead }} The museum was established by Manolita Piña Torres, the widow of Torres Garcia, after his death in 1949. She also set up the García Torres Foundation, a private non-profit organization that organizes the paintings, drawings, original writings, archives, objects and furniture designed by the painter as well as the photographs, magazines and publications related to him.{{Cite web |title=El Museo Torres García |url=http://www.torresgarcia.org.uy/uc_118_1.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006154451/http://www.torresgarcia.org.uy/uc_118_1.html |archive-date=6 October 2010 |access-date=17 November 2010 |publisher=Museo Torres García |language=es}}

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There are several other important art museums in Montevideo. The Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo (CdF) is a museum, archive, and gallery for historic and contemporary photography with twelve outdoor exhibition spaces in various Montevideo neighborhoods as well as four galleries in its downtown headquarters. The National Museum of Visual Arts in Parque Rodó has Uruguay's largest collection of paintings. The Juan Manuel Blanes Museum was founded in 1930, the 100th anniversary of the first Constitution of Uruguay, significant with regard to the fact that Juan Manuel Blanes painted Uruguayan patriotic themes. In the back of the museum is a Japanese Garden with a pond where there are over a hundred carp.{{Cite web|url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/museos-y-salas/museo-blanes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426044450/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/museos-y-salas/museo-blanes|url-status=dead|title=Juan Manuel Blanes Municipal Museum of Arts|archivedate=26 April 2011}} The Museo de Historia del Arte, located in the Palacio Municipal, features replicas of ancient monuments and exhibits a varied collection of artifacts from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, Rome and Native American cultures including local finds of the pre-Columbian period.{{Cite web |date=28 December 2009 |title=Museo de Historia del Arte (MuHAr) | Intendencia de Montevideo |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/museos-y-salas/museo-de-historia-del-arte-muhar |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014081206/http://montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/museos-y-salas/museo-de-historia-del-arte-muhar |archive-date=14 October 2011 |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Montevideo.gub.uy}} The Museo Municipal Precolombino y Colonial, in the Ciudad Vieja, has preserved collections of the archeological finds from excavations carried out by Uruguayan archeologist Antonio Taddei. These antiquaries are exhibits of pre-Columbian art of Latin America, painting and sculpture from the 17th and 18th century mostly from Mexico, Peru and Brazil. The Museo de Arte Contempo has small exhibits of modern Uruguayan painting and sculpture.

There are also other types of museums in the city. The Museo del Gaucho y de la Moneda, located in the Centro, has distinctive displays of the historical culture of Uruguay's gauchos, their horse gear, silver work and mate (tea), gourds, and bombillas (drinking straws) in odd designs. The Museo Naval, is located on the eastern waterfront in Buceo and offers exhibits depicting the maritime history of Uruguay. The Museo del Automóvil, belonging to the Automobile Club of Uruguay, has a rich collection of vintage cars which includes a 1910 Hupmobile.{{Cite web |title=Home |url=http://www.acu.com.uy/museo/ |access-date=12 March 2013 |publisher=Acu.com.uy |archive-date=13 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413000317/http://www.acu.com.uy/museo/ |url-status=live }} The Museo y Parque Fernando García in Carrasco, a transport and automobile museum, includes old horse carriages and some early automobiles.{{Cite web |date=27 April 2010 |title=Museo y Parque Fernando García | Intendencia de Montevideo |trans-title=Fernando García Museum and Park {{!}} Montevideo City Hall |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/museos-y-salas/museo-y-parque-fernando-garcia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014022322/http://montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/cultura/museos-y-salas/museo-y-parque-fernando-garcia |archive-date=14 October 2011 |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Montevideo.gub.uy}} The Castillo Pittamiglio, with an unusual façade, highlights the eccentric legacy of Humberto Pittamiglio, local alchemist and architect.

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As the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo is home to a number of festivals and carnivals including a Gaucho festival when people ride through the streets on horseback in traditional gaucho gear. The major annual festival is the annual Montevideo Carnival which is part of the national festival of Carnival Week, celebrated throughout Uruguay, with central activities in the capital, Montevideo. Officially, the public holiday lasts for two days on Carnival Monday and Shrove Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday, but due to the prominence of the festival, most shops and businesses close for the entire week.{{Cite web |title=Montevideo Carnaval |url=http://www.carnaval.com/uruguay/ |access-date=19 November 2010 |publisher=Carnaval.com |archive-date=9 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409180257/http://www.carnaval.com/uruguay/ |url-status=live }}

During carnival there are many open-air stage performances and competitions and the streets and houses are vibrantly decorated. "Tablados" or popular scenes, both fixed and movable, are erected in the whole city. Notable displays include "Desfile de las Llamadas" ("Parade of the Calls"), which is a grand united parade held on the south part of downtown, where it used to be a common ritual back in the early 20th century. Due to the scale of the festival, preparation begins as early as December with an election of the "zonal beauty queens" to appear in the carnival.

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Estadio Centenario, the national football stadium in Parque Batlle, was opened in 1930 for the first World Cup, as well as to commemorate the centennial of Uruguay's first constitution. In this World Cup, Uruguay won the title game against Argentina by 4 goals to 2.{{Cite book |last=Burford |first=Tim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9eZ9-u6OqKwC&pg=PA36 |title=Uruguay |publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-84162-316-0 |pages=35–36 |access-date=14 November 2015 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141506/https://books.google.com/books?id=9eZ9-u6OqKwC&pg=PA36#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} The stadium has 70,000 seats. It is listed by FIFA as one of the football world's classic stadiums, along with Maracanã, Wembley Stadium, San Siro, Estadio Azteca, and Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/stadiums/stadium=34866/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219224339/http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/stadiums/stadium=34866/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 February 2008|title=FIFA.com}} A museum located within the football stadium has exhibits of memorabilia from Uruguay's 1930 and 1950 World Cup championships. Museum tickets give access to the stadium, stands, locker rooms and playing field.

Between 1935 and 1938, the athletics track and the municipal velodrome were completed within Parque Batlle. The Tabaré Athletic Club is occasionally made over as a carnival theater using impermanent materials.{{Cite book |last=Remedi |first=Gustavo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hr4VCx7x3mMC&pg=PA95 |title=Carnival theatre: Uruguay's popular performers and national culture |publisher=U of Minnesota Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-8166-3455-6 |page=95 |access-date=14 November 2015 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141518/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hr4VCx7x3mMC&pg=PA95 |url-status=live }}Finzer, p. 103

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Today the vast majority of teams in the Primera División and Segunda División come from Montevideo, including Nacional, Peñarol, Central Español, Cerrito, Cerro, Danubio, Defensor Sporting, Atlético Fénix, Liverpool, Wanderers, Racing, River Plate, Club Atlético Torque, Boston River and Rampla Juniors.

Besides Estadio Centenario, other stadiums include Gran Parque Central, Estadio Campeón del Siglo, Belvedere, Complejo Rentistas, Jardines del Hipódromo, José Pedro Damiani, "La Bombonera", Luis Franzini, Luis Tróccoli and the park stadiums of Abraham Paladino, Alfredo Víctor Viera, Omar Saroldi, José Nasazzi, Osvaldo Roberto, Maracaná and Palermo.

The city has a tradition as host of major international basketball tournaments including the official 1967 FIBA World Cup and the 1988 1997 and 2017 editions of the official Americas Basketball Championship.

The Uruguayan Basketball League is headquartered in Montevideo and most of its teams are from the city, including Defensor Sporting, Biguá, Atlético Aguada, Goes, Malvín, {{interlanguage link|Unión Atlética|es|Club Unión Atlética}}, and Trouville. Montevideo is also a center of rugby; equestrianism, which regained importance in Montevideo after the Maroñas Racecourse reopened; golf, with the Club de Punta Carretas; and yachting, with the Puerto del Buceo, an ideal place to moor yachts. The Golf Club of Punta Carretas was founded in 1894 covers all the area encircled by the west side of Bulevar Artigas, the Rambla (Montevideo's promenade) and the Parque Rodó (Fun Fair).

The religion with most followers in Montevideo is Roman Catholicism and has been so since the foundation of the city. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo was created as the Apostolic Vicariate of Montevideo in 1830. The vicariate was promoted to the Diocese of Montevideo on 13 July 1878.{{CathEncy|wstitle=Archdiocese of Montevideo}} Pope Leo XIII elevated it to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on 14 April 1897. The new archdiocese became the Metropolitan of the suffragan sees of Canelones, Florida, Maldonado–Punta del Este, Melo, Mercedes, Minas, Salto, San José de Mayo, Tacuarembó.

Montevideo is the only archdiocese in Uruguay and, as its Ordinary, the archbishop is also Primate of the Catholic Church in Uruguay. The archdiocese's mother church and thus seat of its archbishop is Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción y San Felipe y Santiago. Church and state are officially separated since 1916 in Uruguay. {{As of|2010}}, the Archbishop of Montevideo is Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, SDB, since his appointment on 11 February 2014.{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bstbe|Archbishop Daniel Sturla, SDB|11 February 2014}}

Other religious faiths in Montevideo are Protestantism, Umbanda, Judaism, and there are many people who define themselves as Atheists and Agnostics, while others profess "believing in God but without religion".{{Cite web |title=Extended National Household Survey, 2006: Religion |url=http://www.ine.gub.uy/enha2006/flash/Flash%206_Religion.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927091848/http://www.ine.gub.uy/enha2006/flash/Flash%206_Religion.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2013 |publisher=National Institute of Statistics |language=es}}

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{{Main|Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral}}

The Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral is the main Roman Catholic church of Montevideo. It is located in Ciudad Vieja, immediately across Constitution Square from the Cabildo. In 1740 a brick church was built on the site. In 1790, the foundation was laid for the current neoclassical structure. The church was consecrated in 1804. Bicentennial celebrations were held in 2004.

In 1897, Pope Leo XIII elevated the church to Metropolitan Cathedral status. Important ceremonies are conducted under the direction of the Archbishop of Montevideo. Weddings and choral concerts are held here and the parish priest conducts the routine functions of the cathedral. In the 19th century, its precincts were also used as a burial place of famous people who died in the city. For decades, the prison and the nearby Punta Carretas parish church were the only major buildings in the neighborhood.

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Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón ("Our Lady of the Sacred Heart"), also known as Iglesia Punta Carretas ("Punta Carretas Church"), was built between 1917 and 1927 in the Romanesque Revival style. The church was originally part of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, but is presently in the parish of the Ecclesiastic Curia. Its location is at the corner of Solano García and José Ellauri. It has a nave and aisles. The roof has many vaults. During the construction of the Punta Carretas Shopping complex, major cracks developed in the structure of the church as a result of differential foundation settlement.{{Cite web |title=Iglesia de Sagrado Corazón by anaines |url=http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/South_America/Uruguay/South/Montevideo/Montevideo/photo741444.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220024623/http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/South_America/Uruguay/South/Montevideo/Montevideo/photo741444.htm |archive-date=20 February 2012 |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=Trekearth}}

Main Article: Economy of Uruguay

As the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo is the economic and political center of the country. Most of the largest and wealthiest businesses in Uruguay have their headquarters in the city. Since the 1990s the city has undergone rapid economic development and modernization, including two of Uruguay's most important buildings—the World Trade Center Montevideo (1998),{{Cite web |title=Montevideo |url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?cityID=1040 |access-date=19 November 2010 |publisher=Skyscraper Page |archive-date=9 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110209201134/http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?cityID=1040 |url-status=live }} and Telecommunications Tower (2000), the headquarters of Uruguay's government-owned telecommunications company ANTEL, increasing the city's integration into the global marketplace.{{Cite web |title=Complejo Torre |url=http://www.antel.com.uy/ANTEL/Institucional/complejo-torre/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127051245/http://www.antel.com.uy/ANTEL/Institucional/complejo-torre |archive-date=27 November 2010 |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=ANTEL}}

The Port of Montevideo, in the northern part of Ciudad Vieja, is one of the major ports of South America and plays a very important role in the city's economy.{{Cite web |title=Puertos de Montevideo |url=http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/URY_Puerto_de_Montevideo_112.php |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=World Port Source |archive-date=16 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716122247/http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/URY_Puerto_de_Montevideo_112.php |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Puertos Comerciales del Uruguay – Montevideo |url=http://www.anp.com.uy/montevideo/default.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221033000/http://www.anp.com.uy/montevideo/default.asp |archive-date=21 December 2010 |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=Administracion Nacional de Puertos}} The port has been growing rapidly and consistently at an average annual rate of 14 percent due to an increase in foreign trade. The city has received a US$20 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to modernize the port, increase its size and efficiency, and enable lower maritime and river transportation costs.{{Cite web |title=Uruguay grts IDB financing to modernize the port of Montevideo |url=http://www.iadb.org/news-releases/2009-12/english/uruguay-gets-idb-financing-to-modernize-port-of-montevideo-6045.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130112215445/http://www.iadb.org/news-releases/2009-12/english/uruguay-gets-idb-financing-to-modernize-port-of-montevideo-6045.html |archive-date=12 January 2013 |access-date=19 November 2010 |publisher=Inter-American Development Bank}}

The most important state-owned companies headquartered in Montevideo are: AFE (railways),{{Cite web |title=AFE |url=http://www.afe.com.uy// |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501121433/http://www.afe.com.uy// |archive-date=1 May 2011 |access-date=24 November 2010 |publisher=AFE}} ANCAP (Energy),{{Cite web |title=ANCAP |url=http://www.ancap.com.uy/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904215142/https://www.ancap.com.uy/ |archive-date=4 September 2019 |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=ANCAP}} Administracion Nacional de Puertos (Ports), ANTEL (telecommunications),{{Cite web |title=ANTEL, la empresa de comunicación de los uruguayos |trans-title=ANTEL, the communications company of Uruguayans |url=http://www.antel.com.uy/antel/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120629045809/http://www.antel.com.uy/antel/ |archive-date=29 June 2012 |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=ANTEL}} BHU (savings and loan),{{Cite web |title=Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay |url=http://www.bhu.com.uy/ |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=BHU |archive-date=19 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119181149/http://www.bhu.com.uy/ |url-status=live }} BROU (bank),{{Cite web |title=BROU – Home |url=http://www.brou.com.uy/web/guest/home |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=BROU |archive-date=19 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119052942/http://brou.com.uy/web/guest/home |url-status=dead }} BSE (insurance),{{Cite web |title=Banco de Seguros del Estado |url=http://www.bse.com.uy/inicio/ |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=BSE |archive-date=4 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104094644/http://www.bse.com.uy/Inicio |url-status=dead }} OSE (water & sewage),{{Cite web |title=OSE – Obras Sanitarias del Estado |url=http://www.ose.com.uy/ |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=OSE |archive-date=19 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119052944/http://www.ose.com.uy/ |url-status=live }} UTE (electricity).{{Cite web |title=UTE : La energía de todos |url=http://www.ute.com.uy/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127044110/http://www.ute.com.uy/index.html |archive-date=27 November 2010 |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=UTE}} These companies operate under public law, using a legal entity defined in the Uruguayan Constitution called Ente Autonomo ("autonomous entity"). The government also owns part of other companies operating under private law, such as those owned wholly or partially by the CND (National Development Corporation).

Banking has traditionally been one of the strongest service export sectors in Uruguay: the country was once dubbed "the Switzerland of America",{{Cite web |date=9 October 2007 |title=Uruguay is Worth a Visit |url=http://www.leeabbamonte.com/south-america/uruguay-is-worth-a-visit.html |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=BootsnAll Travel Network |archive-date=14 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114225918/http://www.leeabbamonte.com/south-america/uruguay-is-worth-a-visit.html |url-status=live }} mainly for its banking sector and stability, although that stability has been threatened in the 21st century by the recent global economic climate.{{Cite web |title=Crisis spreads to the 'Switzerland of America'! |url=http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/index.php/latin-america/653-crisis-spreads-to-the-switzerland-of-america--frfi-169-oct--nov-2002.html |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=Revolutionary Communist Group |archive-date=26 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426042219/http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/index.php/latin-america/653-crisis-spreads-to-the-switzerland-of-america--frfi-169-oct--nov-2002.html |url-status=live }} The largest bank in Uruguay is Banco Republica (BROU), based in Montevideo.{{Cite web |title=BROU sitemap |url=http://www.bancorepublica.com.uy/web/guest/institucional/sitemap |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=BROU |archive-date=27 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127181059/http://bancorepublica.com.uy/web/guest/institucional/sitemap |url-status=dead }} 9 private banks, most of them branches of international banks, operate in the country (Banco Santander, BBVA, ABN AMRO, Citibank, among others). There are also a myriad of brokers and financial-services bureaus, among them Ficus Capital, Galfin Sociedad de Bolsa, Europa Sociedad de Bolsa, Darío Cukier, GBU, Hordeñana & Asociados Sociedad de Bolsa, etc.

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Tourism accounts for much of Uruguay's economy. Tourism in Montevideo is centered in the Ciudad Vieja area, which includes the city's oldest buildings, several museums, art galleries, and nightclubs, with Sarandí Street and the Mercado del Puerto being the most frequented venues of the old city.{{Cite web |title=La nueva Ciudad Vieja |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/circuitos-turisticos/la-nueva-ciudad-vieja |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426044401/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/circuitos-turisticos/la-nueva-ciudad-vieja |archive-date=26 April 2011 |access-date=26 November 2010 |publisher=Intendencia de Montevideo}} On the edge of Ciudad Vieja, Plaza Independencia is surrounded by many sights, including the Solís Theatre and the Palacio Salvo; the plaza also constitutes one end of 18 de Julio Avenue, the city's most important tourist destination outside of Ciudad Vieja. Apart from being a shopping street, the avenue is noted for its Art Deco buildings,{{Cite web |title=Art déco |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/circuitos-turisticos/art-deco |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019063207/http://montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/circuitos-turisticos/art-deco |archive-date=19 October 2011 |access-date=26 November 2010 |publisher=Intendencia de Montevideo}} three important public squares, the Gaucho Museum, the Palacio Municipal and many other sights. The avenue leads to the Obelisk of Montevideo; beyond that is Parque Batlle, which along with the Parque Prado is another important tourist destination.{{Cite web |title=El Prado |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/circuitos-turisticos/el-prado |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910200143/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/circuitos-turisticos/el-prado |archive-date=10 September 2014 |access-date=26 November 2010 |publisher=Intendencia de Montevideo}} Along the coast, the Fortaleza del Cerro, the Rambla (the coastal avenue), {{convert|13|km|sp=us}} of sandy beaches,{{Cite web |title=Costa |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/costa |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101025072929/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/costa |archive-date=25 October 2010 |access-date=26 November 2010 |publisher=Intendencia de Montevideo}} and Punta Gorda attract many tourists, as do the Barrio Sur and Palermo barrios.{{Cite web |title=Barrios Sur y Palermo |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/circuitos-turisticos/barrios-sur-y-palermo |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727161551/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/paseos/circuitos-turisticos/barrios-sur-y-palermo |archive-date=27 July 2011 |access-date=26 November 2010 |publisher=Intendencia de Montevideo}}

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The Ministry of Tourism offers a two-and-a-half-hour city tour{{Cite web |title=Montevideo City Tour |url=http://www.turismo.gub.uy/circ-montevideo/city-tour-montevideo |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101025074953/http://www.turismo.gub.uy/circ-montevideo/city-tour-montevideo |archive-date=25 October 2010 |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Uruguay}} and the Montevideo Tourist Guide Association offers guided tours in English, Italian, Portuguese and German.{{Cite web |title=Datos útiles / Tours |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/datos-utiles/tours |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101029144630/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad/datos-utiles/tours |archive-date=29 October 2010 |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=Intendencia de Montevideo}} Apart from these, many private companies offer organized city tours.

Most tourists to the city come from Argentina, Brazil and Europe, with the number of visitors from elsewhere in Latin America and from the United States growing every year, thanks to an increasing number of international airline arrivals at Carrasco International Airport as well as cruises and ferries that arrive into the port of Montevideo.

Montevideo is the heartland of retailing in Uruguay. The city has become the principal center of business and real estate, including many expensive buildings and modern towers for residences and offices, surrounded by extensive green spaces. In 1985, the first shopping center in Rio de la Plata, Montevideo Shopping was built.{{Cite book |last=Remo Pedreschi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jK4QyY4vIHgC&q=Montevideo+Shopping++1985&pg=PA106 |title=The engineer's contribution to contemporary architecture |publisher=Thomas Telford |year=2000 |isbn=0-7277-2772-9 |pages=106–112 |access-date=22 October 2020 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141509/https://books.google.com/books?id=jK4QyY4vIHgC&q=Montevideo+Shopping++1985&pg=PA106#v=snippet&q=Montevideo%20Shopping%20%201985&f=false |url-status=live }} In 1994, with the building of three more shopping complexes such as the Shopping Tres Cruces, Portones Shopping, and Punta Carretas Shopping, the business map of the city changed dramatically. The creation of shopping complexes brought a major change in the habits of the people of Montevideo. Global firms such as McDonald's and Burger King etc. are firmly established in Montevideo. In 2013 Nuevocentro Shopping, a shopping mall located in the Jacinto Vera neighborhood, was inaugurated.{{Cite web |date=24 October 2013 |title=Abrió sus puertas Nuevocentro shopping, el compacto gigante más moderno de Montevideo |url=https://www.lr21.com.uy/economia/1137867-abrio-sus-puertas-nuevocentro-shopping-el-compacto-gigante-mas-moderno-de-montevideo |access-date=30 July 2020 |website=LARED21 |language=es |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924102534/https://www.lr21.com.uy/economia/1137867-abrio-sus-puertas-nuevocentro-shopping-el-compacto-gigante-mas-moderno-de-montevideo |url-status=live }}

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Apart from the big shopping complexes, the main retailing venues of the city are: most of 18 de Julio Avenue in the Centro and Cordón barrios, a length of Agraciada Avenue in the Paso de Molino area of Belvedere, a length of Arenal Grande St. and the

Out of the 100 radio stations found in Uruguay, 40 of them are in Montevideo. The city has a vibrant artistic and literary community. The press enjoyed full freedom until the advent of the Civic-military dictatorship (1973–1985); this freedom returned on 1 March 1985, as part of the restoration of democracy.

Some of the important newspapers published in the city are: Brecha, La República, El Observador,{{Cite web |date=29 April 2011 |title=El Observador |url=http://www.observa.com.uy/ |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Observa.com.uy |archive-date=26 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426015436/http://www.observa.com.uy/ |url-status=live }} El País, Gaceta Comercial and La Diaria.{{Cite book |last1=Geoff Crowther |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9L-lrQcQeMQC&q=Media |title=South America on a shoestring |last2=Rob Rachowiecki |last3=Krzysztof Dydyński |publisher=Lonely Planet Publications |year=1990 |isbn=0-86442-055-2 |pages=746–747 |author-link=Geoff Crowther |access-date=17 November 2010 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141511/https://books.google.com/books?id=9L-lrQcQeMQC&q=Media |url-status=live }} El Día was the most prestigious paper in Uruguay, founded in 1886 by José Batlle, who would later go on to become President of Uruguay. The paper ceased production in the early 1990s.Encyclopædia Britannica All television stations have their headquarters in Montevideo, for example: Saeta Channel 10, Teledoce, Channel 4 and National Television (Channel 5)

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The city and its metropolitan area have a bus transportation network, the Sistema Mets acronym. It covers urban and interurban services within the Metropolitan Area and is administered by the municipal government together with the Ministry of Transport and Public Works. The Baltasar Brum Terminal located in Ciudad Vieja, is the main urban bus station.{{Cite web|last=Observador|first=El|title=Terminal Río Branco no da abasto y estudian dónde estacionar ómnibus que esperan por salir|url=https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/terminal-rio-branco-no-da-abasto-y-estudian-donde-estacionar-omnibus-que-esperan-por-salir-20216221180|access-date=12 December 2021|website=El Observador|archive-date=12 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212015238/https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/terminal-rio-branco-no-da-abasto-y-estudian-donde-estacionar-omnibus-que-esperan-por-salir-20216221180|url-status=live}} However, there are numerous interchanges and terminals distributed in both the city and the metropolitan area.

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The livery of most Montevideo taxis features white on the sides, along with a yellow band, as well as yellow on the top of the car. To determine the rate they use a taximeter, which will determine the price depending on the distance traveled. All taxis accept cash, although it is also common that a passenger can pay with a credit card.{{Cite web |title=Taxis |url=https://www.descubrimontevideo.uy/en/taxis |access-date=6 September 2022 |website=www.descubrimontevideo.uy |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

The State Railways Administration of Uruguay (AFE) operates three commuter rail lines, namely the Empalme Olmos, San Jose and Florida. These lines operate to major suburban areas of Canelones, San José and Florida. Within the Montevideo city limits, local trains stop at Lorenzo Carnelli, Yatai (Step Mill), Sayago, Colón (line to San Jose and Florida), Peñarol and Manga (line Empalme Olmos) stations. The historic 19th century General Artigas Central Station located in the barrio Aguada, six blocks from the central business district, was abandoned 1 March 2003 and remains closed.{{Cite web |title=Observa Ciudadano :: Montevideo – Uruguay |url=http://www.observa.com.uy/osecciones/ociudadano/calientenota.aspx?id=63259 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928015022/http://www.observa.com.uy/osecciones/ociudadano/calientenota.aspx?id=63259 |archive-date=28 September 2011 |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Observa.com.uy}}{{Cite web |date=11 February 2009 |title=Consultor ferroviario europeo visitará la Estación Central General Artigas |url=http://www.sociedaduruguaya.org/2009/02/consultor-ferroviario-europeo-visitara-la-estacion-central-general-artigas.html |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Sociedad Uruguaya |archive-date=28 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728041322/http://www.sociedaduruguaya.org/2009/02/consultor-ferroviario-europeo-visitara-la-estacion-central-general-artigas.html |url-status=live }} A new station, {{convert|500|m|sp=us}} north of the old one and part of the Telecommunications Tower modern complex, has taken over the rail traffic.{{Cite web |title=Passenger Group defending Montevideo Central Station |url=http://lfu1.tripod.com/index-8.html |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Lfu1.tripod.com |archive-date=20 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820004120/http://lfu1.tripod.com/index-8.html |url-status=live }}

The train service is currently suspended for works related to the modernization of the railway system until mid-2023 when the work will end.{{Update inline|date=July 2024}}

The Tres Cruces bus station is the main bus terminal in Uruguay, serving long-distance buses that travel into Montevideo, from other parts of the country and abroad. Inaugurated in 1994, it serves more than 12 million passengers per year.{{Cite web |title=Tres Cruces "se echa encima" US$ 38 millones (3 por pasajero). Te contamos cómo se acomodan las marcas en el shopping |trans-title=Tres Cruces "takes on" US\$38 million (3 per passenger). We tell you how the brands are positioning themselves in the shopping center. |url=https://infonegocios.biz/plus/tres-cruces-se-echa-encima-us-38-millones-3-por-pasajero-te-contamos-como-se-acomodan-las-marcas-en-el-shopping |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212015237/https://infonegocios.biz/plus/tres-cruces-se-echa-encima-us-38-millones-3-por-pasajero-te-contamos-como-se-acomodan-las-marcas-en-el-shopping |archive-date=12 December 2021 |access-date=12 December 2021 |website=infonegocios.biz}}{{Cite web|date=11 May 2012|title=Tres cruces Memoria y balance Ejercicio finalizado el 30 de abril de 2011|url=http://www.trescruces.com.uy/pdf/memoria-2011.pdf|access-date=12 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511003114/http://www.trescruces.com.uy/pdf/memoria-2011.pdf|archive-date=11 May 2012}}

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Companies operating at Tres Cruces bus station: Agencia central, Bruno, Copsa, Cromin, Cynsa, Copay, Cot, Cut, Corporacion, Cita, Cauvi, Colonia Express, El Condor, El Norteño, Ega, Expreso Chago, Expreso Minuano, Intertur, Nossar, Nuñez, Rutas del sol, TTL, Turil, Turismar, etc.

Montevideo is served by the Carrasco International Airport {{Airport codes|MVD|SUMU}}, which is located in the north of Ciudad de la Costa, in Canelones Department, {{convert|12|mi|km|order=flip|abbr=on}} from the city center. It handles over 1,5 million passengers per year,{{Cite book |last1=Blore |first1=Shawn |url=https://archive.org/details/frommerssoutham000blor/page/672 |title=Frommer's South America |last2=Shane Christensen |last3=Alexandra de Vries |last4=Eliot Greenspan |last5=Haas Mroue |last6=Neil E. Schlecht |last7=Kristina Schreck |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7645-5625-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/frommerssoutham000blor/page/672 672–673]}}[http://www.aic.com.uy/ Carrasco International Airport] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830015215/http://www.aic.com.uy/ |date=30 August 2009 }} and has been cited as one of the most efficient and traveler-friendly airports in Latin America.{{Cite web|date=23 July 2019|title=Aeropuerto de Carrasco premiado como uno de los cinco mejores de América Latina|url=https://www.lr21.com.uy/cultura/1406265-aeropuerto-de-carrasco-premiado-como-uno-de-los-cinco-mejores-de-america-latina|access-date=12 December 2021|website=LARED21|language=es|archive-date=12 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212015246/https://www.lr21.com.uy/cultura/1406265-aeropuerto-de-carrasco-premiado-como-uno-de-los-cinco-mejores-de-america-latina|url-status=live}}

Ángel S. Adami Airport is a private airport operated by minor charter companies and in which there is also a flight school.{{Cite web|title=Ministerio de Defensa inauguró obras en el aeropuerto de Melilla|url=https://www.gub.uy/presidencia/comunicacion/noticias/ministerio-defensa-inauguro-obras-aeropuerto-melilla|access-date=12 December 2021|website=Uruguay Presidencia|language=es|archive-date=12 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212015237/https://www.gub.uy/presidencia/comunicacion/noticias/ministerio-defensa-inauguro-obras-aeropuerto-melilla|url-status=live}}

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Montevideo is also served by a ferry system operated by the company Buquebus that connects the port with Buenos Aires. More than 2.2 million people per year travel between Argentina and Uruguay with Buquebus. One of these ships is a catamaran, which can reach a top speed of about {{convert|80|km/h|abbr=on}}.{{Cite web |title=Buquebus |url=http://www.buquebus.com/cache/HomeARG.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621063259/http://www.buquebus.com/cache/HomeARG.html |archive-date=21 June 2009 |access-date=9 August 2009 |publisher=Buquebus}}File:stk 1340.jpgThe port on Montevideo Bay is one of the reasons the city was founded. It gives natural protection to ships, although two jetties now further protect the harbor entrance from waves. This natural port is competitive with the other great port of Río de la Plata, Buenos Aires.{{Cite web |title=Infraestructura Física – Proyecto Nueva Terminal de Contenedores del Puerto de Montevideo. |trans-title=Physical Infrastructure – New Container Terminal Project of the Port of Montevideo. |url=http://www.anp.com.uy/montevideo/infraestructura/mvd_infraestructura.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216022436/http://www.anp.com.uy/montevideo/infraestructura/mvd_infraestructura.asp |archive-date=16 December 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |publisher=Puerto de Montevideo |language=es}}

The main engineering work on the port occurred between the years 1870 and 1930. These six decades saw the construction of the port's first wooden pier, several warehouses in La Aguada, the north and south Rambla, a river port, a new pier, the dredged river basin and the La Teja Refinery. A major storm in 1923 necessitated repairs to many of the city's engineering works. Since the second half of the 20th century, until the 21st century, physical changes had ceased, and since that time the area had degraded due to national economic stagnation.

The port's proximity has contributed to the installation of various industries in the area surrounding the bay, particularly import/export businesses and other business related to port and naval activity. The density of industrial development in the area surrounding the port has kept its popularity as a residential area relatively low despite its centrality. The main environmental problems are subaquatic sedimentation and air and water contamination.

Every year more than one hundred cruises arrive, bringing tourists to Montevideo by public or private tours.{{Cite web |title=Cruise tours at Montevideo |url=http://www.indooruruguay.com/en/tour/private-cruise-tours-montevideo-punta-del-este |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524185751/http://www.indooruruguay.com/en/tour/private-cruise-tours-montevideo-punta-del-este |archive-date=24 May 2013 |access-date=22 July 2012}}

The city has bicycle circuits in Ciudad Vieja, Artigas Boulevard and Centro as well as with good facilities for cyclists such as bike paths and bike racks throughout the city.{{Cite web|title=Conoce el Circuito de Bicicletas de Montevideo|url=https://www.turismoenmontevideo.com/conoce-el-circuito-de-bicicletas-de-montevideo/|access-date=12 December 2021|website=Guía de turismo en Montevideo|date=20 October 2015|language=es|archive-date=12 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212015236/https://www.turismoenmontevideo.com/conoce-el-circuito-de-bicicletas-de-montevideo/|url-status=live}} In 2013 the "South Bicicircuito" was also inaugurated, which connects several of the dependent faculties of the University of the Republic.{{Cite web|title=Se inaugura el Bicicircuito Sur|url=https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/Se-inaugura-el-Bicicircuito-Sur-uc211415|access-date=12 December 2021|website=Montevideo Portal|language=es|archive-date=12 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212015241/https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/Se-inaugura-el-Bicicircuito-Sur-uc211415|url-status=live}} There are more than 100 bike stations in the city.{{Cite web |date=11 June 2020 |title=Montevideo extiende su red vial para bicicletas |trans-title=Montevideo expands its road network for bicycles |url=https://montevideo.gub.uy/noticias/movilidad-y-transporte/montevideo-extiende-su-red-vial-para-bicicletas |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212015247/https://montevideo.gub.uy/noticias/movilidad-y-transporte/montevideo-extiende-su-red-vial-para-bicicletas |archive-date=12 December 2021 |access-date=12 December 2021 |website=Intendencia de Montevideo. |language=es}} In 2014, a bicycle sharing system called Movete was launched.{{Cite web |last=ElPais |date=7 August 2019 |title=IMM licita 60 estaciones para 600 bicicletas en Montevideo |trans-title=IMM puts out a tender for 60 stations for 600 bicycles in Montevideo |url=https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/sociedad/imm-licita-estaciones-bicicletas-montevideo.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205044706/https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/sociedad/imm-licita-estaciones-bicicletas-montevideo.html |archive-date=5 December 2019 |access-date=12 December 2021 |website=Diario EL PAIS Uruguay |language=spanish}}

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The University of the Republic is the country's largest and most important university, with a student body of 81,774, according to the census of 2007.{{Cite web |title=Universidades Uruguayas |url=http://www.uruguayy.com/uruguay-uruguay/universidades-uruguayas/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201041348/http://www.uruguayy.com/uruguay-uruguay/universidades-uruguayas/ |archive-date=1 December 2010 |access-date=22 November 2010 |publisher=Y20 Network}} It was founded on 18 July 1849 in Montevideo, where most of its buildings and facilities are still located. Its Rector is Dr. Rodrigo Arocena. The university houses 14 faculties (departments) and various institutes and schools. Many eminent Uruguayans have graduated from this university, including Carlos Vaz Ferreira, José Luis Massera, Gabriel Paternain, Mario Wschebor, Roman Fresnedo Siri, Carlos Ott and Eladio Dieste

The process of founding the country's public university began on 11 June 1833 with the passage of a law proposed by Senator Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga. It called for the creation of nine academic departments; the President of the Republic would pass a decree formally creating the departments once the majority of them were in operation. In 1836, the House of General Studies was formed, housing the departments of Latin, philosophy, mathematics, theology and jurisprudence. On 27 May 1838, Manuel Oribe passed a decree establishing the Greater University of the Republic.{{Cite web |title=Portal de la UdelaR – Historia |url=http://www.universidad.edu.uy/renderPage/index/pageId/98#heading_761 |access-date=22 November 2010 |publisher=UdelaR |archive-date=28 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328031527/http://www.universidad.edu.uy/renderPage/index/pageId/98#heading_761 |url-status=live }} That decree had few practical effects, given the institutional instability of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay at that time.

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The largest private university in Uruguay,{{Cite web |title=Presentación institucional |url=https://www.ort.edu.uy/la-universidad/presentacion-institucional |access-date=22 November 2010 |publisher=Universidad ORT Uruguay |archive-date=21 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821234111/http://www.ort.edu.uy/index.php?id=AAAJ |url-status=live }} is also located in Montevideo. ORT Uruguay was first established as a non-profit organization in 1942, and was officially certified as a private university in September 1996, becoming the first private educational institution in the country to achieve that status.{{cite web |title=La universidad |url=https://www.ort.edu.uy/the-story-of-ort-in-uruguay#:~:text=Joseph%20Harmatz%2C%20Director%20General%20of,Widening%20the%20educational%20scope |website=Universidad ORT |publisher=Universidad ORT Uruguay |access-date=23 March 2025}} It is a member of World ORT, an international educational network founded in 1880 by the Jewish community in Saint Petersburg, Russia.{{Cite web |title=World ORT education charity supporting Jewish and International causes. |url=http://www.ort.org/asp/default.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051029042030/http://www.ort.org/asp/default.asp |archive-date=29 October 2005 |access-date=22 November 2010 |publisher=World ORT}}

The university has about 8,000 students, distributed among 5 faculties and institutes, mainly geared towards the sciences and technology/engineering. Its rector {{As of|2010|lc=y}} is Dr. Jorge A. Grünberg.

Another private university in Uruguay is the University of Montevideo (Spanish: Universidad de Montevideo, short: UM). It opened in 1986 and obtained the right to be legally named a university in 1997. With its seven schools the UM has facilities all over Montevideo. The Universidad de Montevideo also holds more than 250 partnerships with other universities in 47 countries. Since 2019 is the university ranked in the Top 500 in the world by the QS World University Rankings (QSWUR).{{Cite web |title=UM International {{!}} UM |url=https://www.um.edu.uy/international |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=www.um.edu.uy}}

The Montevideo Crandon Institute is an American School of missionary origin and the main Methodist educational institution in Uruguay. Founded in 1879 and supported by the Women's Society of the Methodist Church of the United States, it is one of the most traditional and emblematic institutions in the city inculcating John Wesley's values. Its alumni include presidents, senators, ambassadors and Nobel Prize winners{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}, along with musicians, scientists, and others. The Montevideo Crandon Institute boasts of being the first academic institution in South America where a home economics course was taught.{{Cite web |title=Instituto Crandon |url=http://www.crandon.edu.uy/portal/hgxpp001.aspx?80 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220133911/http://www.crandon.edu.uy/portal/hgxpp001.aspx?80 |archive-date=20 December 2007 |access-date=28 November 2010 |publisher=Instituto Crandon}}{{Cite journal |last=Fitzgerald |first=D. T. |year=1955 |title=American Schools in Latin America |journal=The Phi Delta Kappan |volume=36 |issue=9 |pages=337–341 |jstor=20341657}}

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The Christian Brothers of Ireland Stella Maris College is a private, co-educational, not-for-profit Catholic school located in the wealthy residential southeastern neighborhood of Carrasco. Established in 1955, it is regarded as one of the best high schools in the country, blending a rigorous curriculum with strong extracurricular activities.{{Cite web |title=Colegio Stella Maris – Historia |url=http://www.stellamaris.edu.uy/ContentAction.do?action=loadContent&contId=1003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225180401/http://www.stellamaris.edu.uy/ContentAction.do?action=loadContent&contId=1003 |archive-date=25 December 2008 |access-date=22 November 2010 |publisher=Colegio Stella Maris}} The school's headmaster, history professor Juan Pedro Toni, is a member of the Stella Maris Board of Governors and the school is a member of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). Its long list of distinguished former pupils includes economists, engineers, architects, lawyers, politicians and even F1 champions. The school has also played an important part in the development of rugby union in Uruguay, with the creation of Old Christians Club, the school's alumni club.

Also in Carrasco is The British Schools of Montevideo, one of the oldest educational institutions in the country, founded in 1908 with "the object of giving children a complete education, both intellectual and moral, based upon the ideas and principles of the best schools in The British Isles".{{Cite web |title=History of the School |url=http://portal.british.edu.uy/web/en/about-us/history-of-the-school.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312131423/http://portal.british.edu.uy/web/en/about-us/history-of-the-school.html |archive-date=12 March 2017 |access-date=4 January 2017}} The School is governed by the Board of Governors, elected by the British Schools Society in Uruguay, whose honorary president is the British Ambassador to Uruguay. Prominent alumni include president Luis Lacalle Pou and former government ministers Pedro Bordaberry and Gabriel Gurméndez Armand-Ugon.

Located in Cordon, St.Brendan's school, previously named St.Catherine's is a non-profit civil association, which has a solid institutional culture with a clear vision of the future. It is known for being one of the best schools in the country, joining students from the wealthiest parts of Montevideo, such as, Punta Carretas, Pocitos, Malvin and Carrasco.

St. Brendan's School is a bilingual, non-denominational school that promotes a pedagogical constructivist approach focused on the child as a whole. In this approach, understanding is built from the connections children make between their own prior knowledge and the learning experiences, thus developing critical thinking skills. It is also the only school in the country implementing the three International Baccalaureate Programmes. These are:

• Diploma Program – Pre-University course for students aged 16 to 19. The Diploma Program is a two-year curriculum.
• MYP -Middle Years Program. For students aged 12 to 16.
• PYP – Primary Years Program. For students aged 3 to 12.

Other educational institutions of note include Colegio Ingles, John XXIII Institute, Lycée Français de Montevideo, Ivy Thomas, German School of Montevideo and Colegio Preuniversitario Ciudad de San Felipe.{{Cite web |title=Colegio y Liceo San Felipe | Preuniversitario Ciudad de San Felipe |url=http://www.sanfelipe.edu.uy/ |access-date=16 September 2011 |publisher=Sanfelipe.edu.uy |archive-date=3 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003162846/http://www.sanfelipe.edu.uy/? |url-status=live }}

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In Montevideo, as elsewhere in the country, there are both public and private health services. In both sectors, medical services are provided by polyclinics and hospitals or sanatorios. The term hospital is used here for both outpatient and inpatient facilities, while sanatorio is used for private short- and long-term facilities for the treatment of illnesses.

Hospital de Clínicas "Dr. Manuel Quintela" is a University Hospital attached to the University of the Republic, and is located on Avenida Italia. It functions as an adult general polyclinic and hospital. The building was designed by architect Carlos Surraco in 1928–1929 and has a surface area of {{convert|110000|sqm|sqft|sp=us}} on 23 floors. The hospital was inaugurated 21 September 1953. For many years it was led by Dr. Hugo Villar, who was a considerable influence on the institution.

Hospital Maciel is one of the oldest hospitals in Uruguay and stands on the block bounded by the streets Maciel, 25 de Mayo, Guaraní and Washington, with the main entrance at 25 de Mayo, 172. The land was originally donated in Spanish colonial times by philanthropist Francisco Antonio Maciel, who teamed up with Mateo Vidal to establish a hospital and charity. The first building was constructed between 1781 and 1788 and later expanded upon. The present building stems from the 1825 plans of José Toribio (son of {{interlanguage link|Tomás Toribio|es}}) and later Bernardo Poncini (wing on the Guaraní street, 1859), Eduardo Canstatt (corner of Guaraní and 25 de Mayo) and Julián Masquelez (1889). The hospital has a chapel built in Greek style by Miguel Estévez in 1798.

Hospital Pereira Rossell was founded in 1908 and was built on land donated in late 1900 by Alexis Rossell y Rius and Dolores Pereira de Rossell.{{Cite web|url=https://www.correo.com.uy/sel/index.asp?codpag=detProd&smen=filatelia&idp=633&s=1|title=Productos y Servicios – Correo Uruguayo|website=www.correo.com.uy|access-date=13 September 2021|archive-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508165243/https://www.correo.com.uy/sel/index.asp?codpag=detProd&smen=filatelia&idp=633&s=1|url-status=live}} It was the city's first pediatric hospital, and shortly afterwards the addition of an obstetric and gynecological clinic in 1915 made it the first maternity hospital as well. Later, the hospital received a donation from Dr. Enrique Pouey for a radiotherapy unit.

Hospital Vilardebó is the only psychiatric hospital in Montevideo. Named after the physician and naturalist {{interlanguage link|Teodoro Vilardebó|es|Teodoro Vilardebó Matuliche}}, it opened 21 May 1880.Beatriz Pasturino y col. [http://www.mednet.org.uy/~spu/revista/dic2004/03_estudio.pdf Estudio sobre suicidios consumados. Población usuaria del Hospital Vilardebó] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430193155/http://www.mednet.org.uy/~spu/revista/dic2004/03_estudio.pdf |date=30 April 2011 }} (en español). Rev. Psiquiatr. Urug. 2004;68(2):147–161. Last access 25 January 2010. The hospital was originally one of the best of Latin America and in 1915 grew to 1,500 inpatients. Today the hospital is very deteriorated, with broken walls and floors, lack of medicines, beds, and rooms for the personnel.{{Cite web |last=Radio Centenario 1250 AM |title=Leonardo Danovich denuncia grave situación que atraviesa el Hospital Vilardebó |url=http://www.radio36.com.uy/entrevistas/2008/04/140408_danovich.html |access-date=19 November 2010 |language=es |archive-date=18 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818123918/http://www.radio36.com.uy/entrevistas/2008/04/140408_danovich.html |url-status=live }} It has an emergency service, outpatient, clinic and inpatient rooms and employs approximately 610 staff, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, administrators, guards, among others.{{Cite journal |last=Ricardo Acuña |year=2004 |title=Servicio de Emergencia del Hospital Vilardebó |url=http://www.mednet.org.uy/~spu/revista/dic2004/06_servicio.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=Rev Psiquiatr Urug |language=es |volume=68 |issue=2 |pages=194–207 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430193216/http://www.mednet.org.uy/~spu/revista/dic2004/06_servicio.pdf |archive-date=30 April 2011 |access-date=19 November 2010}} The average patient age is 30 years; more than half of the patients arrive by court order; 42% suffer from schizophrenia, 18% from depression and mania,{{Cite web |last=Presidencia, República Oriental del Uruguay |title=Autoridades practican modificaciones en el Vilardebó |trans-title=Authorities make changes at Vilardebó |url=http://www.ired.gub.uy/contenido/2007/02/2007020511.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106131308/http://www.ired.gub.uy/contenido/2007/02/2007020511.htm |archive-date=6 January 2010 |access-date=19 November 2010 |language=es}} and there are also a high percentage of drug addicted patients.

Other public polyclinics and hospitals of note include the Hospital Saint Bois, founded 18 November 1928, which consists of a General Hospital and Eye Hospital; the Pasteur Hospital in La Unión neighborhood; the Hospital Español, which was founded in 1886, passed to the private sector in the 20th century, closed in 2004 and was restored and re-inaugurated in 2007 as the municipal Juan Jose Crottogini Polyclinic;{{Cite web |date=12 December 2008 |title=Inauguración de nuevo CTI alivia falta de camas intensivas en ASSE |trans-title=Inauguration of new ICU alleviates lack of intensive care beds in ASSE|url=http://www.larepublica.com.uy/comunidad/344701-inauguracion-de-nuevo-cti-alivia-falta-de-camas-intensivas-en-asse |access-date=14 December 2010 |newspaper=La República |location=Montevideo |publisher=La Republica 21 |archive-date=30 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430224741/http://www.larepublica.com.uy/comunidad/344701-inauguracion-de-nuevo-cti-alivia-falta-de-camas-intensivas-en-asse |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Policlínica Municipal Dr. Juan Jose Crottogini |url=http://guiaderecursos.mides.gub.uy/mides/text.jsp?contentid=4501&site=1&channel=mides |access-date=14 December 2010 |publisher=Ministerio de Desarrollo Social |archive-date=30 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430033820/http://guiaderecursos.mides.gub.uy/mides/text.jsp?contentid=4501&site=1&channel=mides |url-status=live }} the National Cancer Institute; and the National Institute of Trauma and Orthopedics.

Private healthcare is offered by many private health insurance companies, each of which has one or more polyclinics and owns or is associated with one or more hospitals. Private medical facilities of note include the Hospital Británico, the Italian Hospital of Montevideo, Mutualista CASMU's Sanatoria I, II, III and IV, the Evangelical Hospital, {{interlanguage link|Médica Uruguaya|es}}, Sanatorio de la Asociación Española, Sanatorios del Círculo Católico, Sanatorio Casa de Galicia and Sanatorio GREMCA.

{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in South America}}

Montevideo is twinned with:

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• {{flagdeco|CHI}} Arica, Chile{{Cite web |last=Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo |title=Proyecto de Acta de Hermanamiento entre las ciudades de Arica y Montevideo |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/sites/default/files/documentos-rrii/Arica.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6J6evP1ST?url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/sites/default/files/documentos-rrii/Arica.pdf |archive-date=24 August 2013 |access-date=24 July 2013 |language=es}}
• {{flagicon|PAR}} Asunción, Paraguay{{Cite web|url=https://www.asuncion.gov.py/intendencia/asuncion-montevideo-hermanadas-mediante-firma-una-carta-entendimiento|title=Asunción y Montevideo hermanadas mediante firma de una Carta de Entendimiento|date=10 August 2017|website=Municipalidad de Asunción|access-date=13 December 2020|archive-date=2 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302031621/https://www.asuncion.gov.py/intendencia/asuncion-montevideo-hermanadas-mediante-firma-una-carta-entendimiento|url-status=live}}
• {{flagdeco|ESP}} Barcelona, Spain{{Cite web |title=Barcelona internacional – Ciutats agermanades |url=http://w3.bcn.es/XMLServeis/XMLHomeLinkPl/0,4022,229724149_257215678_1,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805171253/http://w3.bcn.es/XMLServeis/XMLHomeLinkPl/0,4022,229724149_257215678_1,00.html |archive-date=5 August 2009 |access-date=13 July 2009 |website=bcn.es |language=es}}
• {{flagdeco|ARG}} Berisso, Argentina{{Cite web |title=Relaciones internacionales |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/institucional/relaciones-internacionales/integracion-regional |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111108082107/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/institucional/relaciones-internacionales/integracion-regional |archive-date=8 November 2011 |access-date=12 December 2011 |publisher=Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo |language=es}}
• {{flagdeco|NIC}} Bluefields, Nicaragua
• {{flagdeco|BRA}} Brasília, Brazil
• {{flagdeco|ESP}} Cádiz, Spain
• {{flagdeco|COL}} Cali, Colombia
• {{flagdeco|ESP}} Ceuta, Spain
• {{flagdeco|BOL}} Cochabamba, Bolivia
• {{flagdeco|ARG}} Córdoba, Argentina
• {{flagdeco|BOL}} Coroico, Bolivia
• {{flagdeco|VEN}} Cumaná, Venezuela
• {{flagdeco|BRA}} Curitiba, Brazil[http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Lei_Municipal_de_Curitiba_7438_de_1990 Lei Municipal de Curitiba 7438 de 1990] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508152845/http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Lei_Municipal_de_Curitiba_7438_de_1990 |date=8 May 2013 }} WikiSource {{in lang|pt}}
• {{flagdeco|SADR}} El Aaiun, Western Sahara
• {{flagdeco|ECU}} Esmeraldas, Ecuador
• {{flagdeco|ARG}} Hurlingham, Argentina
• {{flagdeco|ARG}} La Plata, Argentina
• {{flagdeco|VEN}} Libertador, Venezuela
• {{flagdeco|POR}} Lisbon, Portugal{{Cite web |title=Sítio da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa: Relações Internacionais |url=http://www.cm-lisboa.pt/municipio/relacoes-internacionais |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031202617/http://www.cm-lisboa.pt/municipio/relacoes-internacionais |archive-date=31 October 2013}}
• {{flagdeco|ARG}} Mar del Plata, Argentina
• {{flagdeco|ITA}} Marsico Nuovo, Basilicata, Italy
• {{flagdeco|ESP}} Melilla, Spain{{Cite web |title=Melilla se hermana con Montevideo |url=http://www.infomelilla.com/noticias/index.php?accion=1&id=7899 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226134115/http://www.infomelilla.com/noticias/index.php?accion=1&id=7899 |archive-date=26 December 2008 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=Noticia de InfoMelilla |publisher=infomelilla.com |language=es}}
• {{flagdeco|CAN}} Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• {{flagdeco|USA}} Montevideo, Minnesota, United States< (relationship began in 1905){{cite web |url=https://montevideomn.govoffice2.com/index.asp?SEC=3C2922D7-C051-418A-A05C-F495CFAEB7C1&pri=0 |title=Sister City- Montevideo, Uruguay - City of Montevideo, MN |format= |accessdate= |archive-date=21 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921022001/https://montevideomn.govoffice2.com/index.asp?SEC=3C2922D7-C051-418A-A05C-F495CFAEB7C1&pri=0 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Tribune |first=Jean Hopfensperger Star |title=Two Montevideos share more than just a name |url=https://www.startribune.com/two-montevideos-share-more-than-just-a-name/124576423/ |access-date=2023-03-01 |website=Star Tribune |date=27 June 2011 |archive-date=17 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230217013411/https://www.startribune.com/two-montevideos-share-more-than-just-a-name/124576423/ |url-status=live }}
• {{flagdeco|FRA}} Paris, France{{Cite web |last=Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo |title=Montevideo y París firman acuerdo de hermanamiento |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/noticias/montevideo-y-paris-firman-acuerdo-de-hermanamiento |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111003043/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/noticias/montevideo-y-paris-firman-acuerdo-de-hermanamiento |archive-date=11 January 2014 |access-date=10 January 2014 }}
• {{flagdeco|HAI}} Port-au-Prince, Haiti
• {{flagdeco|PRC}} Qingdao, Shandong, China{{Cite web|url=http://en.people.cn/200404/16/eng20040416_140601.shtml|title=People's Daily Online – Montevideo, Chinese Qingdao become sister cities|website=en.people.cn|access-date=13 September 2021|archive-date=13 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913180038/http://en.people.cn/200404/16/eng20040416_140601.shtml|url-status=live}}
• {{flagdeco|CAN}} Quebec City, Canada{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}
• {{flagdeco|ARG}} Rosario, Argentina{{Cite web |title=Town Twinning Agreements |url=http://www.rosario.gov.ar/mr/mri/www/city-city-program/town-twinning-agreements |access-date=14 October 2014 |publisher=Municipalidad de Rosario – Buenos Aires 711 |archive-date=19 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319103223/http://www.rosario.gov.ar/mr/mri/www/city-city-program/town-twinning-agreements |url-status=dead }}
• {{flagdeco|RUS}} Saint Petersburg, Russia{{Cite web |title=St. Petersburg in figures > International and Interregional Ties |url=http://eng.gov.spb.ru/figures/ities |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090224073839/http://eng.gov.spb.ru/figures/ities |archive-date=24 February 2009 |access-date=30 April 2010 |publisher=Eng.gov.spb.ru}}
• {{flagdeco|BOL}} Santa Cruz, Bolivia
• {{flagdeco|BRA}} São Paulo, Brazil{{Cite web |title=Pesquisa de Legislação Municipal – No 14471 |trans-title=Research Municipal Legislation – No 14471 |url=http://www3.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/cadlem/secretarias/negocios_juridicos/cadlem/integra.asp?alt=11072007L%20144710000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018123138/http://www3.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/cadlem/secretarias/negocios_juridicos/cadlem/integra.asp?alt=11072007L%20144710000 |archive-date=18 October 2011 |access-date=23 August 2013 |website=Prefeitura da Cidade de São Paulo [Municipality of the City of São Paulo] |language=pt}}[http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Lei_Municipal_de_S%C3%A3o_Paulo_14471_de_2007 Lei Municipal de São Paulo 14471 de 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928023927/http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Lei_Municipal_de_S%C3%A3o_Paulo_14471_de_2007 |date=28 September 2013 }} WikiSource {{in lang|pt}}
• {{flagdeco|ITA}} Satriano di Lucania, Basilicata, Italy{{Cite web |date=15 December 2014 |title=Montevideo se hermanó con Satriano |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/institucional/noticias/montevideo-se-hermano-con-satriano |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708050303/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/institucional/noticias/montevideo-se-hermano-con-satriano |archive-date=8 July 2018 |access-date=7 July 2018}}
• {{flagdeco|PRC}} Shenzhen, Guangdong, China{{Cite web |date=22 March 2008 |title=外事志--深圳市人民政府外事办公室 |script-title=zh:友好城市 |trans-title=Friendly cities |url=http://www.szfao.gov.cn/zwgk/wsz/201103/t20110322_1645217.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719025116/http://www.szfao.gov.cn/zwgk/wsz/201103/t20110322_1645217.htm |archive-date=19 July 2014 |access-date=7 August 2013 |publisher=Shenzhen Foreign Affairs Office |language=zh-hans}}{{Cite web |date=20 January 2011 |title=友城概要--深圳市人民政府外事办公室 |script-title=zh:国际友好城市一览表 |trans-title=International Friendship Cities List |url=http://www.szfao.gov.cn/ygwl/yxyc/ycgy/201101/t20110120_1631663.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113092638/http://www.szfao.gov.cn/ygwl/yxyc/ycgy/201101/t20110120_1631663.htm |archive-date=13 November 2013 |access-date=7 August 2013 |publisher=Shenzhen Foreign Affairs Office |language=zh-hans}}{{Cite web |date=13 September 2011 |title=友好交流--深圳市人民政府外事办公室 |script-title=zh:友好交流 |trans-title=Friendly exchanges |url=http://www.szfao.gov.cn/ygwl/yxyc/yhjl/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112101846/http://www.szfao.gov.cn/ygwl/yxyc/yhjl/ |archive-date=12 November 2014 |access-date=7 August 2013 |publisher=Shenzhen Foreign Affairs Office |language=zh-hans}}
• {{flagdeco|CRC}} Talamanca, Costa Rica
• {{flagdeco|PER}} Tambo de Mora, Peru
• {{flagdeco|PRC}} Tianjin, China{{Cite web|url=http://spanish.peopledaily.com.cn/200104/11/sp20010411_46532.html|title=El alcalde de Montevideo regala la "llave de la ciudad" al Presidente Jiang Zemin|website=spanish.peopledaily.com.cn|access-date=24 July 2013|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308062759/http://spanish.peopledaily.com.cn/200104/11/sp20010411_46532.html|url-status=live}}
• {{flagdeco|ITA}} Tito, Basilicata, Italy
• {{flagdeco|COL}} Tumaco, Colombia
• {{flagdeco|KOR}} Ulsan, South Korea{{Cite web |title=Hermanamiento con Ulsan {{!}} Intendencia de Montevideo |url=http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/noticias/hermanamiento-con-ulsan |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029212033/http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/noticias/hermanamiento-con-ulsan |archive-date=29 October 2013 |access-date=30 April 2014}}
• {{flagdeco|POL}} Wrocław, Poland
• {{flagdeco|PRC}} Wuhu, Anhui, China

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Montevideo is part of the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities{{Cite web |date=12 October 1982 |title=Declaración de Hermanamiento múltiple y solidario de todas las Capitales de Iberoamérica (12-10-82) |trans-title=Declaration of Multiple and Solidary Twinning of All the Capitals of Ibero-America (10-12-82) |url=http://www.munimadrid.es/UnidadWeb/Contenidos/EspecialInformativo/RelacInternac/RRII/HermanamientosyAcuerdos/Files/hermanamiento_UCCI.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510114810/http://www.munimadrid.es/UnidadWeb/Contenidos/EspecialInformativo/RelacInternac/RRII/HermanamientosyAcuerdos/Files/hermanamiento_UCCI.pdf |archive-date=10 May 2013 |access-date=12 March 2015}} since 12 October 1982.

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{{See also|Timeline of Montevideo#Bibliography|l1=Bibliography of the history of Montevideo}}

• Albes, Edward. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L4bUAAAAMAAJ Montevideo, the city of roses] (US Government Printing Office, 1922).
• {{Cite book |last=Finzer |first=R David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9Up1rOz8mQC&pg=PA98 |title=The Southron's Guide to Living in Uruguay |publisher=The Southron |isbn=982-9801-31-4}}

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