URUGUAY

URUGUAY GOV'T

• Official name: Uruguay
• Capital: Montevideo
• How many people approximently
• Live there: 3,316,328

MAJOR GEOGRAPHICAL ELMENTS

• Mountains
• Surrounded by water
• Beaches
• Flat land

CURRENCY

• Uruguay's currency is called:
• Uruguayan peso
• There highest dollar bill is
• $5,000

MAJOR ATTRACTIONS/FUN THINGS

• Major attractions- national
• Museum of visual arts
• Fun things- futbol (soccer),
• The beach, and the opera show

MAIN RELIGIONS

• Roman Catholicism;
• some Judaism;
• Afro-Brazilian churches;
• and evangelical Protestantism

INDEPENDENCE

• They first founded there independence
• In August, 25th, 1825
• They one there primary independence
• From Spain in 1811

CURRENT LEADER

• There current leader right now
• Is: Jose Mujica

CURRENT GOVERNMENT

• The current government in
• Uruguay is an Constitutional
• And Republic government

FOOD/CUSTOMS/TRADITIONS

• Types of Food: Asado, Chivito,
• And Morcilla Dulce
• One of the major traditions is the:
• Uruguayan Carnival

FAMOUS PEOPLE

• luis suarez- soccer player
• Edinson Cavani- soccer player
• FERNANDO MUSLERA- soccer player

CLIMATE

• The climate at Uruguay is
• Mostly humid subtropical

URUGUAY'S FLAG

• The sun "sun of May" means
• Freedom and liberty.
• Nine stripes- means the nine
• provinces of Uruguay.

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• What the flag would look
• Like

MOST NEWSWORTHY THING

• A law passed in the country's lower house of Congress
• and expected to pass in the Senate later this year would
• make Uruguay the first country in the world to license and enforce
• rules for the production, distribution and sale of marijuana for adults.