SALTO

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SALTO , a town and river port of

Uruguay

URUGUAY (officially the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, and long locally called the Banda Oriental, meaning the land on the eastern side of the river Uruguay, from which the country takes its name)

and

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of a department of the same name, on the

Uruguay

URUGUAY (officially the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, and long locally called the Banda Oriental, meaning the land on the eastern side of the river Uruguay, from which the country takes its name)

river 6o m. above Paysandfi. Pop. (1900, estimate) 12,000. It has railway con-
nexion with

Montevideo

MONTEVIDEO, SAN FELIPE Y SANTIAGO DE

via Paysandu and Rio Negro (394 m.),
and with Santa Rosa, on the Brazilian frontier (113 M.).
It is also connected with

Montevideo

MONTEVIDEO, SAN FELIPE Y SANTIAGO DE

and Buenos Aires by river steamers, Salto being at the head of high water navigation for large vessels. There are reefs and rocks in the river between Paysandfi and Salto that make navigation dangerous except at high water. Above Salto the river is obstructed by reefs all the way up to the Brazilian frontier, about 95 m., and is navigable for light-draft vessels only at high water. Farther up, the river is freely navigable to Santo Tome (Argentina)a distance of about 170 M. Travellers wishing to ascend the river above Salto usually

cross

CROSS

to Concordia, Entre Rios, and go up by railway to Ceibo, near Monte Caseros, from which point small steamers ascend to Uruguayana, Itaqui, and other river ports. The streets of Salto are well paved and lighted with electricity, and there are some good public buildings. The town has two meat-curing establishments (saladeros) and is the shipping port for north-western Uruguay and, to some extent, for western Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Behind Salto lies a rich, undulating grazing country, whose large herds

supply

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

its

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

exports.
The department of Saltoarea, 4866 sq. m., pop. (1900) 40,589, (1907, estimate) 53,154-is an undulating, well-watered region occupying the north-west

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

of Uruguay. Its

industries

INDUSTRIES

are almost exclusively

pastoral

PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

About one-third of its population are foreigners, chiefly Brazilians.

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