URUGUAYANA

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URUGUAYANA , a city and river port of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on the left bank of the

Uruguay

URUGUAY (officially the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, and
long
- LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
- LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )
locally called the Banda Oriental, meaning the land on the eastern side of the river Uruguay, from which the country takes its name)

river, 348 ft. above sea-level (at the R. R. station) and about 36o m. in a direct line W. of

Porto

PORTO

Alegre. Pop. (1900) 13,638. A railway connects with Quarahim (47 m.) on the Uruguayan frontier, and thence by a Uruguayan line with

Montevideo

MONTEVIDEO, SAN FELIPE Y SANTIAGO DE

by way of Paysandfi. The same line extends N. 62 m. to the naval station of Itaquy. A

cross

CROSS

-country line was under construction in 1909 to Cacequy, which is in direct communication with

Porto

PORTO

Alegre and the city of Rio Grande. The upper

Uruguay

URUGUAY (officially the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, and
long
- LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
- LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )
locally called the Banda Oriental, meaning the land on the eastern side of the river Uruguay, from which the country takes its name)

is navigable from the Quarahim to the town of Sao Tome, and small river steamers ply regularly between Ceibo, on the Argentine side, and the latter. Opposite Uruguayana is the Argentine town of Restauracion, or Paso los Libres. The river is 2 M. wide at this point, and 154 ft. above sea-level. Uruguayana is prettily situated on a low hill rising gently from the riverside and its low houses are surrounded by orange groves. There are large military barracks near the shore, a theatre and a custom-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

. The surrounding country is chiefly

pastoral

PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

, but there is a small area under vineyards, and in addition to grapes some other fruits are produced. Uruguayana was captured by a Paraguayan force under General Estigarribia on the 5th of August 1865, and was recaptured without a fight by the allied forces under General Bartolome Mitre on the 18th of September. The Paraguayan occupation left the town partially in ruins, and it remained in a decadent

condition

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

until near the end of the century, when reviving

industries

INDUSTRIES

in the state and a renewal of railway construction promoted its commercial activity and growth.

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