Sunset in the Uruguay River

Map of the Uruguay River

The Uruguay River (in Spanish, Río Uruguay, pronounced [uɾuˈɣwaj]) is a river in South America. It flows from north to south and makes boundary with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (separating some of the Argentine provinces of the Mesopotamia from the other two countries). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x900, 242 KB) Español: Atardecer en el río Uruguay, provincia de Misiones, Argentina. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x900, 242 KB) Español: Atardecer en el río Uruguay, provincia de Misiones, Argentina. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (866x1302, 33 KB) Summary River Uruguay in South America Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Uruguay River ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (866x1302, 33 KB) Summary River Uruguay in South America Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Uruguay River ... IPA may refer to: The International Phonetic Alphabet or India Pale Ale ... The Murray River in Australia. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... La Mesopotamia, Región Mesopotámica or Litoral (Littoral) is the humid and verdant area of north-east Argentina, comprising the provinces of Misiones, Entre Ríos and Corrientes. ...

The river measures about 1,500 km in length and starts in the Serra do Mar (Brazil), at 28°09′S 40°0′W, where the Canoas River and the Pelotas River are joined, at about 2,050 m above mean sea level. In this stage the river goes through uneven, broken terrain, forming rapids and falls. Its course through Rio Grande do Sul is not navigable. The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... ... Rio Grande do Sul (pron. ...

Together with the Paraná River, the Uruguay forms the Río de la Plata estuary. It is navigable from around Salto Chico. Its main tributary is the Negro River, which is born in Uruguay and goes 500 km until its confluence with the Uruguay, which is located 100 km north from the Uruguay's confluence with the Río de la Plata, in Punta Gorda (Colonia Department, Uruguay). This article is about the second-longest river in South America: For the shorter river in Goiás, central Brazil, see Paranã River The sun rising over the Paraná River, from the north-east of Rosario, Argentina. ... Río de la Plata in relation to Uruguay and Argentina A satellite view of the estuary The Río de la Plata (from Spanish: River of Silver), also known by the English name River Plate, as in the Battle of the River Plate, or sometimes [La] Plata River, is... Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing numerous ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits and services. ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... A confluence is the merger or meeting of two or more objects (or subjects) that seem to inseparably bind their respective forces or attributes into a point of junction. ...

The river is crossed by three international bridges between Argentina and Uruguay. From north to south, these are: the Salto Grande Bridge, the General Artigas Bridge and the Libertador General San Martín Bridge. The Salto Grande Bridge is a road and railroad bridge that crosses the Uruguay River and joins Argentina and Uruguay. ... The General Artigas Bridge is a road bridge that crosses the Uruguay River and joins Argentina and Uruguay. ... The Libertador General San Martín Bridge is a road bridge that crosses the Uruguay River and joins Argentina and Uruguay. ...

The basin of the Uruguay River has an area of 370,000 km². Its main economic use is the generation of hydroelectricity (see Salto Grande Dam). A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... Hydroelectricity is electricity obtained from hydropower. ... A view of the Salto Grande reservoir. ...

Origin of the name

The name of the river comes from the Spanish settlers' interpretation of the word the locals used to designate it. The original name, Urugua'ý, in Guaraní, means "river of the painted birds". Guaraní (local name: avañeẽ ) is an Amerindian language of South America that belongs to the Tupí-Guaraní subfamily. ...

The cellulose plant conflict

Main article: Cellulose plant conflict between Argentina and Uruguay

Since April 2005, Argentina and Uruguay are experiencing a conflict over the Uruguay River. Two foreign companies are building cellulose processing plants at Fray Bentos, Uruguay, opposite Gualeguaychú, Argentina, and residents of the latter as well as many others have protested, claiming that the plants will pollute the river shared by the two countries. At the turn of the year the conflict escalated into a diplomatic crisis. Since December 2005 the international bridges linking the Argentine province of Entre Ríos with Uruguay have been intermitently blockaded by Argentine protestors, causing major disruptions in commercial traffic and tourism. The cellulose plant conflict between Argentina and Uruguay is an ongoing conflict between private people, organizations and the governments of these two South American countries rooted at the construction of cellulose processing plants on the Uruguay River. ... Cellulose (C6H10O5)n is a long-chain polymer polysaccharide carbohydrate, of beta-glucose. ... Map of Uruguay, showing Fray Bentos as well as Montevideo Fray Bentos is a town in west Uruguay, close to the border with Argentina, and about 160 km (100 mi) due north of Buenos Aires. ... Gualeguaychú is a city in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina, on the left bank of the Gualeguaychú River (a tributary of the Uruguay River). ... Entre Ríos is a province of Argentina, it lays and borders north of Buenos Aires Province, south of Corrientes Province, east of Santa Fe Province, and west of Uruguay. ...

See also

• List of rivers of the Americas

This list of rivers of the Americas includes all the major rivers of the Americas. ...

References

• Salto Grande Hydroelectric System (in Spanish)
• Trivia about Uruguay (in Spanish)
• From Uruguay Blog about everything uruguayan (in english)