Showing posts with label Paysandú. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paysandú. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

PAYSANDÚ: welcome to Uruguay

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With 175.000 sq Km and 3.5 million habitants Uruguay is not only the smallest but the less populated country in this trip. The population lives mostly along the litoral, with Montevideo, the capital, counting 1.9 million. 
The economy is basically agriculture and cattle based, with a cattle size estimated in 9 million heads. A joke I heard here: if cows would become smarter we would be in trouble; that why we eat them so much. They really do. Paysandú (80.000 people) is the fourth largest city and was my entry point to Uruguay.