Rivera is the capital of the department of Rivera in Uruguay with a population of about 64,000. Rivera is located exactly on the border with Brazil, and with the Brazillian city of Santana do Livramento, right across the border line, just a street away, it forms an international city of 200.000 inhabitants. In 1943, the Plaza Internacional (on the photo) was built, celebrating this peaceful relationship, and perhaps being the only international square in the whole world. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 961 KB) Summary Obelisco de la Plaza Internacional, en la Frontera de la Paz, ciudades de Livramento (Brasil) y Rivera (Uruguay). ... Uruguay consists of 19 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) (capitals in parentheses): Artigas (Artigas). ... Rivera is a department of Uruguay. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ...
The border community is unusual as inhabitants from both Livramento (Brazil) and Rivera (Uruguay) are free to move anywhere throughout the twin city community. It is easy to get lost in the suburbs and not know if one is in Brazil or Uruguay. Customs and checkpoints are located outside the cities.
Rivera was the elder of twin boys, but his brother died at the age of two.
Rivera soon showed himself to be a precociously gifted artist and began to study in the evenings at the Academy of San Carlos at the age of ten.
Rivera's first attempt was painted in encaustic, but he soon mastered traditional fresco technique, and shed stiff European allegories in favour of a new and popular style, where the influence of the Aztecs mingled with that of Cubism and Rousseau.
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