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URUGUAYANA

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 808 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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URUGUAYANA , a See also:

city and See also:river See also:port of the See also:state of Rio Grande do Sul, See also:Brazil, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Uruguay river, 348 ft. above See also:sea-level (at the R. R. station) and about 36o m. in a See also:direct See also:line W. of See also:Porto Alegre. Pop. (1900) 13,638. A railway connects with Quarahim (47 m.) on the Uruguayan frontier, and thence by a Uruguayan line with See also:Montevideo by way of Paysandfi. The same line extends N. 62 m. to the See also:naval station of Itaquy. A See also:cross-See also:country line was under construction in 1909 to Cacequy, which is in direct communication with Porto Alegre and the city of Rio Grande. The upper Uruguay is navigable from the Quarahim to the See also:town of Sao Tome, and small river steamers ply regularly between Ceibo, on the See also:Argentine See also: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 See also:low See also:hill rising gently from the See also:riverside and its low houses are surrounded by See also:orange groves.

There are large military See also:

barracks near the See also:shore, a See also:theatre and a See also:custom-See also:house. The surrounding country is chiefly See also:pastoral, but there is a small See also:area under vineyards, and in addition to grapes some other fruits are produced. Uruguayana was captured by a Paraguayan force under See also:General Estigarribia on the 5th of See also:August 1865, and was recaptured without a fight by the allied forces under General Bartolome See also:Mitre on the 18th of See also:September. The Paraguayan occupation left the town partially in ruins, and it remained in a decadent See also:condition until near the end of the See also:century, when reviving See also:industries in the state and a renewal of railway construction promoted its commercial activity and growth.

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