Uruguay Country Guide | Guide to Uruguay

Country Guide Uruguay

Capital: Montevideo

Population: 3,463,000

Currency: Uruguayan peso (UYU)

Religions: Roman Catholic 66% (less than half of the adult population attends church regularly), Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, nonprofessing or other 31%

Government: constitutional republic

Languages: Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier)

Climate: warm temperate; freezing temperatures almost unknown

Phone Code: 598

Festivals in Uruguay

Carnival in Montevideo [video]

Fiesta Gaucha [video]

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