Canelones will be the host city of the tournament, and the Rink will be enclosed the Sergio Matto stadium.
Jorge Ángelo Paleso Carbajal (born July 24, 1983 in Santa Lucía), commonly known as Ángelo Paleso, is a Uruguayan footballer, who currently plays for Sud América.
In the 1960s he was a concessionaire for General Motors in Pan de Azúcar, San Carlos and Maldonado, and was a director on the board of a company producing Opel-based pick-up trucks in Pan de Azucar under the name of "Marina".
Carlos Peruena (born March 13, 1955 in Florida) was a Uruguayan football defender who played for the Uruguay national team in Copa América 1975.
Edison Francisco Gómez Bentancour (born November 14, 1990 in Mercedes, Soriano), commonly known as Edison Gómez, is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a striker for Panserraikos F.C. in the Greek Football League.
He also qualified for the 100 m backstroke by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 56.36 from the South American Championships in Maldonado, Uruguay.
Between 1857 and 1950, 6,611,000 European immigrants arrived in Argentina, making it the country with the second biggest immigration wave in the world, only second to the United States with 27 millions, and ahead of such other areas of new settlement such as Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay; and permanently changing the ethnography of Argentina.
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Italians form a majority of the population of Argentina and neighbouring Uruguay as up to two-third have some Italian background; among the Latin American countries, only Brazil has more people of Italian descent (28 million, approximately 15 percent of Brazil's total population).
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Italians became firmly established throughout Argentina, but the greatest concentrations are in the City of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires Province, Santa Fe Province, Entre Rios Province, Córdoba Province, Tucumán Province, La Pampa Province and, in the nearby country of Uruguay.
Florencio Sánchez came from a large family; he had eleven siblings and his parents moved his family to the city of Treinta y Tres and later to Minas, where he began his studies at an elementary school.
Francisco Antonino Vidal (1825–1889) was born in San Carlos, Uruguay, in Maldonado Department, and was a senator and two-time president of Uruguay.
Gastón Brugman Duarte (born 7 September 1992 in Rosario), is a Uruguayan football striker who currently plays for Italian Serie B side Pescara.
Gonzalo "Chori" Castro Irizábal (born 14 September 1984 in Trinidad, Flores Department) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for Real Sociedad in Spain, as a winger.
Born in Mercedes, Eugui began playing football with Bristol de Mercedes.
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Héctor Hugo Eugui Simoncelli (born February 18, 1947 in Mercedes, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan football manager and former player.
Born in San Carlos, Menosse played youth football with local CA Libertad, making his senior debuts in 2007–08 season.
Hipódromo is a barrio (neighbourhood or district) of Melo, the capital of Cerro Largo Department of eastern Uruguay.
Joaquín Luis Miguel Suárez de Rondelo (August 18, 1781 in Canelones – December 26, 1868 in Montevideo) was a Uruguayan political figure.
Joe Émerson Bizera Bastos (born 17 May 1980 in Artigas) is a Uruguayan football player, who plays for Peñarol Montevideo.
Jorge Daniel Casanova (born July 26, 1976 in Sauce, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Bella Vista of the Primera Division in Uruguay.
Juan Carlos de Lima (born 1962 in Florida, Uruguay) is a former Uruguayan footballer who has played at club level in Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Ecuador.
Leonardo Javier Pais Corbo (born 7 July 1994 in Minas) is an Uruguayan footballer who plays for Defensor Sporting as a midfielder.
He had a curacy at Maldonado, Uruguay during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, and returned to Buenos Aires in time to take part in the May Revolution of 1810.
Ruben Martín Colombo Rivero (born 12 April 1985 in Mercedes, Soriano) is an Uruguayan footballer who plays as a striker for A.S.D. Città di Marino Calcio in the Serie D.
Maximiliano Matías Calzada Fuentes (born 21 April 1990 in Santa Lucía) is a Uruguayan footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Nacional of the Uruguayan Primera División.
The name "Playa Portezuelo", is sometimes given to describe all the long streach of the beach up to Punta Negra.
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Punta Ballena borders the resort Chihuahua to the west, it includes the Casapueblo citadel, the promontory of Punta Ballena, and the beach Playa Las Grutas to the east of it.
Román Marcelo Cuello Arizmendi (born April 4, 1977 in Santa Lucía, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Club Atlético Boston River of the Uruguayan Segunda División.
Ruben Wálter Paz Márquez (born August 8, 1959 in Artigas) is a former Uruguayan football midfield player, who retired in 2006 at the age of 47.
Santiago Javier Ostolaza Sosa (born July 10, 1962 in Dolores, Soriano) is an Uruguayan former football midfielder and current manager.
Sebastián Vázquez (born November 4, 1980 in San Ramón, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan football midfielder who currently plays for Rentistas.
Uruguay: A May 2007 Factum/El Espectador survey asked Uruguayans about a law under debate in their country's Senate, which would legalize abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, finding that 61% support the law, 27% oppose the law, and 12% are unsure about it.
The title may contain a spelling error: it is unclear whether saurez is an attempt at spelling soirée, the French word for an evening party, or whether it refers to "Suárez", a wine-producing small town and region in Canelones, Uruguay.
Its main campus is located in Montevideo (in 6 locations in the city) and 2 other campuses in Maldonado and Salto.
Born in Florida, Gassire began playing football with the youth teams of C.A. Peñarol.
William Adrián Castro Rosso (born 22 May 1962 in Mercedes) is a former Uruguayan footballer.
William Ferreira Martínez (born on February 25, 1983 in Artigas) is a Uruguayan football striker.
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At the inaugural FIFA World Cup in his home nation of Uruguay in 1930, Suppici dropped goalkeeper Andrés Mazali, who had won a gold medal in the 1928 Olympic final, from the national team after he was caught breaking curfew and failing to arrive at the team hotel in time in Montevideo prior to the tournament.
According to Guinness World Records, the biggest alfajor in the world, measuring almost two meters in diameter and 80 centimeters in height and weighing 464 kilograms, was made on 11 December 2010 in Minas, Lavalleja Department, Uruguay.
On August 25, 1897 Arredondo assassinated Idiarte in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo as he emerged from a church service.
Cebollati river is a Uruguayan river that rises in Cuchilla Grande (Big Ridge), flows southwest to northeast and forms a border between Treinta y Tres and Rocha.
On May 11, 2008 he was released from Wuhan Guanggu and spent the second half of 2008 with Defensor Sporting of Uruguay.
Born in the small town of Dom Pedrito in Rio Grande do Sul on the border with Uruguay, Coutinho moved to Rio de Janeiro when he was four years old.
Many cities in Latin America, such as Buenos Aires, Argentina; Zacatecas and Guanajuato, in Mexico; Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and Montevideo, Uruguay, richly influenced by many European architectural features, are well known for their many cobblestone streets, which are still operational and in good condition.
Cristian Martín Palacios Ferreira (born September 2, 1990 in Salto, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Centro Deportivo Olmedo in the Ecuadorian Serie A.
Dendropsophus nanus, a frog species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay
In 2007, as Interior Minister, Tourné oversaw security for the visit to Uruguay of US President George W. Bush, to whom a significant hostility among many of Ms. Tourné's Frente Amplio colleagues, raised in a tradition which magnifies Che Guevara and his Cuban fellow revolutionaries, was widely noted.
By way of contributing to Uruguayan regional cultural identity, Echeverría is the author of the anthem 'Flores Hymn' (Spanish: 'Himno a Flores').
He completed a funereal monument for the Giudice of the City of Montevideo, Uruguay.
After playing for the Portland, where Hague was nominated for rookie of the year, Hague went to Uruguay to play for Danubio F.C. It was decided that Soccer did not deserve David and he quit instead.
Estadio Municipal Doctor Mario Sobrero is a multi-use stadium in Rocha, Uruguay.
On 19 July 2011, Galatasaray officially announced the signing of Fernando Muslera from Lazio on a 5-year contract while he was on duty in the Copa América with Uruguay.
The freckled catshark, Scyliorhinus haeckelii, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the continental shelf and upper slope from the western Atlantic from western Venezuela, Suriname, Brazil, and Uruguay between latitudes 11° N and 32° S.
Gerardo Cono Pelusso Boyrie (born February 25, 1954 in Florida), is a Uruguayan football manager.
In 2002, after Uruguay was hit by the Argentine economic crisis, an off-the-record conversation between president Batlle and a journalist from Bloomberg Argentina was recorded by a hidden camera from that channel.
Juan Ramón Curbelo Garis (born 2 May 1979 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Cerro.
Just a few miles from the seaside locality are important tourist spots like La Pedrera, Valizas, Cabo Polonio, Punta del Diablo, the Fortaleza de Santa Teresa, La Coronilla, the Fuerte de San Miguel and the city of Chuy.
Lagomar is a residential neighbourhood and resort of Ciudad de la Costa in Canelones, Uruguay.
Among the notable cases he has handled are:Lane v. Owens, in which he ruled that the State of Colorado could not permissibly compel recitation of the pledge of allegiance; Golan v. Gonzales, in which he held that the copyright provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act did not violate the United States Constitution; and the litigation arising out of the Columbine High School massacre.
Marcelo Antonio Macías Oliveri (born September 12, 1975 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan football goalkeeper.
Margarita Xirgu, also Margarida Xirgu (18 June 1888, Molins de Rei, (Catalonia, Spain) – 25 April 1969, Montevideo, (Uruguay)) was a Catalan stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America.
In September 2013, he left Uruguay for Italian side Bari and just a four-month later, returned back to play for Defensor Sporting.
From the Melo station a 128 kilometres long 525 kV powerline, of which 65 km are situated in Uruguay, runs to a newly built 525 kV/230 kV substation close to the Candiota power station, which contains some harmonic filters.
Miguel Angel Bossio Bastianini (born February 10, 1960 in Montevideo) is a retired football midfielder from Uruguay, who obtained a total number of thirty international caps for his national team.
Miss Atlántico Internacional 2008 (or Miss Atlantic International 2008), the 22nd edition of the Miss Atlantic International beauty pageant, was held in Punta del Este, Uruguay on Saturday, January 26, at 22:00 hours and was delivered by Teledoce Televisora color, live and direct satellite television and Latin America, are now setting out for the broadcast across the globe.
1980 Mundialito, international football tournament held in 1980 in Uruguay
From 1913 to 1914, about 2,000 followers under the leadership of Lubkov immigrated to Uruguay and established a farming town San Javier, Uruguay.
Parides bunichus damocrates (Guenée, 1872) (Argentina, Uruguay) Much paler; the head and palpi are black, and the submarginal spots on the upper surface of the hindwing are not bright red.
Parque Carrasco is a residential neighbourhood and resort of Ciudad de la Costa in Canelones, Uruguay.
With the support of Juan Antonio Lavalleja and the members of the White Party, he crossed the Uruguay river in order to attack Rivera, but the latter defeated him at the Battle of Cagancha, on 29 December 1839, in San José Department, Uruguay near the Cagancha creek.
Carrera started his career at LDU Quito at the age of 15 in 1960, where he stayed until transferred to Peñarol of Uruguay in 1968.
The Punta del Este Sevens is an annual international rugby sevens tournament held in Uruguay, held at the resort of the same name in Maldonado Department.
He was one of the few tangueros to play in a cafe in Avenida de Mayo in Buenos Aires and he was the first person to play the tango La Cumparsita in the cafe La Giralda in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Rudi Pablo Lausarot Bobenrieth (born 3 April 1975 in Young) is a Uruguayan 10 m Air Rifle sport shooter.
San José de Carrasco is a residential neighbourhood and resort of Ciudad de la Costa in Canelones, Uruguay.
Santana do Livramento has an airport but scheduled flights to the Brazilian city usually use Pres. Gral. Óscar D. Gestido International Airport in neighboring Rivera, Uruguay.
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It is located along the border with the city of Rivera, Uruguay, which helps form an international city of 200,000 inhabitants.
Using two special codes, the player will have access to the special/hidden teams which didn't take part in the 1994 World Cup: England, Wales, Uruguay, Denmark and France.
John Smith was first mate on the Columbia, later renamed Arraganta, when it sailed from Baltimore, Maryland under a letter of marque issued by the Uruguayan revolutionary José Gervasio Artigas.
He traveled to Montevideo, Uruguay where he remained until 1949 when he was allowed back into Buenos Aires for a time.
He played for teams in Uruguay (Club Nacional de Football, Club Atletico River Plate, Montevideo Wanderers, Plaza Colonia), Argentinia (San Lorenzo de Almagro, Club Atlético Independiente, Estudiantes de La Plata), Barcelona Sporting Club in Ecuador and finally Matsunichi in China.
Venancio Ariel Ramos Villanueva (born June 20, 1959 in Artigas) is a retired football striker from Uruguay, who was nicknamed "Chicharra" during his professional career.
Caprile began his career in Uruguay playing for Cerro and played for several seasons in the Primera División Uruguaya, before moving to clubs in Honduras and Guatemala.
Reaside coached a number of teams in South America, including Nacional of Uruguay, Newell's Old Boys of Argentina, and Asturias and Guadalajara of Mexico.