Casabó is a neighbourhood 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 ...
,
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
.
Geography
The neighbourhood of Casabó is located in the southwestern part of Montevideo, between the districts of Santa Catalina to the west,
Villa del Cerro
Villa del Cerro is a ''barrio'' (neighbourhood or district) of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Location
This barrio shares borders with Casabó to the west, La Paloma to the north, the Pantanoso Creek to the northeast, the Bay of Montevideo to the east and t ...
to the east, Villa Esperanza to the north and 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 ...
to the south.
Casabó is the western extension of the Villa del Cerro and it includes the
Fortaleza del Cerro
The Fortaleza del Cerro, also known as Fortaleza General Artigas, is a fortress situated in Montevideo, Uruguay overlooking the Bay of Montevideo. It belongs to the ''barrio'' of Casabó, at the west of Villa del Cerro. It holds a dominant positio ...
, the
Parque Dr. Carlos Vaz Ferreira and the ruins of the cold storage factory ''Frigorífico Swift'', the shut down ''Frigorífico Nacional'', the Club de Golf del Cerro and an area of the Navy. To the west of Casabó is the barrio of Santa Catalina, situated next to the beach and the public park of Punta Yeguas.
Places of worship
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Parish Church of St. Alberto Hurtado, Sierra Leona 144 (
Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
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)
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Parish Church of the Curé of Ars and St Helena, Av. Antártida Uruguaya 6100 (Roman Catholic)
References
See also
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Barrios of Montevideo
The city of Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, is divided into 62 ''barrios'' (neighborhoods or districts), each with its own identity, demographic characteristics and activities appropriate to the socio-cultural level of its inhabitants. The outer ...
Barrios of Montevideo
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