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List of contemporary writers from northern Uruguay includes writers identified with the regions of northern Uruguay. The area is also characteristic of some of their writings.
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List of contemporary writers from northern Uruguay includes writers identified with the regions of northern Uruguay. The area is also characteristic of some of their writings.
The culture of Uruguay is focused on urban Montevideo and largely secular.[ citation needed ] However, a number of contemporary writers have worked and focused on the north of the country.
These include:
Carlos Gardel was a French-born Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was one of the most influential interpreters of world popular music in the first half of the 20th century. Gardel is the most famous popular tango singer of all time and is recognized throughout the world. He was notable for his baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics. Together with lyricist and long-time collaborator Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote several classic tangos.
Uruguay consists of 19 departments (departamentos). Each department has a legislature called a Departmental Board. The Intendente is the department's chief executive.
Tacuarembó is the capital city of the Tacuarembó Department in north-central Uruguay.
Rivera Department is a department of the northern region of Uruguay. It has an area of 9,370 km2 (3,620 sq mi) and a population of 103,493. Its capital is the city of Rivera. It borders Brazil to the north and east, Cerro Largo Department to the southeast, Tacuarembó Department to the south and west and Salto Department to the northwest.
Tacuarembó is the largest department of Uruguay and it is part of its northern region. Its capital is Tacuarembó. It borders Rivera Department to its north and east, the departments of Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro to its west and has the river Río Negro flowing along its south border, separating it from the departments of Durazno and Cerro Largo.
Tacuarembó Fútbol Club, usually known simply as Tacuarembó, is a Uruguayan football club based in Tacuarembó.
Paso de los Toros is a city of the Tacuarembó Department in Uruguay.
The Diocese of Tacuarembó is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Uruguay. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Montevideo.
Circe Maia,, is a Uruguayan poet, essayist, translator, and teacher.
Tomás de Mattos Hernández was a Uruguayan writer and librarian. Being from Tacuarembó, de Mattos was one of the relatively few contemporary Uruguayan writers from the north of the country.
The geology of Uruguay combines areas of Precambrian-aged shield units with a region of volcanic rock erupted during the Cretaceous and copious sedimentary facies the oldest of which date from the Devonian. Big events that have shaped the geology of Uruguay include the Transamazonian orogeny, the breakup of Rodinia and the opening of the South Atlantic.
Ansina is a town in the Tacuarembó Department of northern-central Uruguay.
Curtina is a village in the Tacuarembó Department of northern-central Uruguay.
Paso Bonilla is a village or populated centre in the Tacuarembó Department of northern-central Uruguay.
Paso del Cerro is a village or populated centre in the Tacuarembó Department of northern-central Uruguay.
San Gregorio de Polanco is a small city in the Tacuarembó Department of northern-central Uruguay.
Tacuarembó Airport is an airport serving Tacuarembó, the capital of Tacuarembó Department in Uruguay. The airport is in the countryside 5 kilometres (3 mi) east of the city.
Tacuarembemys is an extinct genus of continental turtle from South America. It contains a single species, T. kusterae. The genus was described based on the external mold of a carapace and associated shell bone fragments found near the city of Tacuarembó, Uruguay. This fossil was found on the Tacuarembó Formation, whose estimated age ranges from late Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous.
The Tacuarembó Formation is a Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) geologic formation of the eponymous department in northern Uruguay. The fluvial to lacustrine sandstones, siltstones and mudstones preserve ichnofossils, turtles, crocodylomorphs, fish and invertebrates.