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    Introduction


    A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand its hold throughout the government. Civilian rule was not restored until 1985. Uruguay's political and labor conditions are among the freest on the continent.


    Location


    Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Brazil


    Geographic coordinates


    33 00 S, 56 00 W


    Area


    total: 176,220 sq km land: 173,620 sq km water: 2,600 sq km


    Area - comparative


    slightly smaller than the state of Washington


    Land boundaries


    total: 1,564 km border countries: Argentina 579 km, Brazil 985 km


    Coastline


    660 km


    Maritime claims


    territorial sea: 12 NM continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation contiguous zone: 24 NM exclusive economic zone: 200 NM


    Climate


    warm temperate; freezing temperatures almost unknown


    Terrain


    mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland


    Elevation extremes


    lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Cerro Catedral 514 m


    Natural resources


    arable land, hydropower, minor minerals, fisheries


    Land use


    arable land: 7.21% permanent crops: 0.27% other: 92.52% (1998 est.)


    Irrigated land


    1,800 sq km (1998 est.)


    Natural hazards


    seasonally high winds (the pampero is a chilly and occasional violent wind which blows north from the Argentine pampas), droughts, floods; because of the absence of mountains, which act as weather barriers, all locations are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes from weather fronts


    Environment - current issues


    water pollution from meat packing/tannery industry; inadequate solid/hazardous waste disposal


    Environment - international agreements


    party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation


    Geography - note


    second-smallest South American country (after Suriname); most of the low-lying landscape (three-quarters of the country) is grassland, ideal for cattle and sheep raising


    Population


    3,399,237 (July 2004 est.)


    Capital


    Montevideo


    Phone Code


    +598


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