Hipólito Rodríguez Caorsi (July 10, 1939 in

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 ...

– December 15, 2012) was a

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and

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.Obituary of Dr. Rodríguez Caorsi
In September 1992 he was appointed as a member of the

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, a post in which he remained until 2002. He died in 2012, and is buried at

Cementerio del Norte, Montevideo Cementerio del Norte is the largest cemetery in Montevideo, Uruguay, and also the largest green park area of the city. It is located in the ''barrio'' of Casavalle in the northern-central part of the city, about 7 kilometres from the centre. T ...

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