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Gentle and Beautiful - Uruguay's Geography

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Sunday, 13 April 2008
The Rio Uruguay Uruguay has a surface area of approximately 68'000 square miles (176.212 km²) and is located in the southern region, in the warmest sub-zone. It is bordered on the north and northeast by Brazil; on the west and south by Argentina, across the Uruguay River (Rio Uruguay) and the *Rio de la Plata* - the Silver River - and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean. The land is gently undulating. Its almost flat plains - of the Rio Uruguay , the Rio Plata and the Atlantic coast - give way to marshlands and estuaries. Its orographic system and extension of the southern Brazilian foothills, are characterized by elevations called cuchillas, whose altitudes fluctuate between 650 and 1'600 feet (200 m to 500 m) above the sea level. The coast offers a chain of sandy beaches that extend to a perimeter of almost 435 miles (700 km): 280 miles (450 km) over the Rio de la Plata and 155 miles (250 km) over the Atlantic Ocean, from Punta Gorda in the department of Colonia, to the mouth of the Chuy stream (bordering Brazil) in the department of Rocha. Uruguay has 704 miles (1133 km) of navigable rivers, approximately 500 miles (804 km) of which correspond to the Rio de la Plata and Rio Uruguay.
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