Barra de Carrasco is a residential neighbourhood and resort of

Ciudad de la Costa Ciudad de la Costa is a city in Canelones Department of Uruguay, on the banks of the Río de la Plata between the streams Arroyo Carrasco and Arroyo Pando. It is considered an extension of the metropolitan area of Montevideo which it borders to th ...

in Canelones,

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. Its name means "mouth of the Carrasco Creek".

Location

It is located adjacent to Carrasco, an eastern neighbourhood (barrio) of

Montevideo Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...

, on the

Río de la Plata The Río de la Plata (, "river of silver"), also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean and fo ...

coast. It covers an area of roughly .

Population

In 2011, Barra de Carrasco had population was 5,410. Source: ''Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay''

Street map

References

External links

INE map of Colonia Nicolich, Paso Carrasco, Carrasco Int.Airport, and parts of the municipality of Ciudad de la Costa (incl. Barra de Carrasco)
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