Sauce is a small city and municipality in the

Canelones Department The Departamento de Canelones (; ) is one of the 19 Uruguayan departments. With an area of and 608,956 inhabitants at the 2023 Census, it is located in the south of Uruguay. Its capital is Canelones. Ciudad de la Costa is the largest city by ...

of southern

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Geography

Location

The city is located on Km. 36 of Route 6 and its intersection with Routes 67, 86 and 107. It is part of the wider metropolitan area of

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. The stream Arroyo Sauce flows along the east and the south limits of the city, and also through the park Parque Artigas.

History

It was founded on 12 October 1851. On 29 September 1915 it was declared a "pueblo" (town) by the Act of Ley Nº 5.336, and on 15 May 1925, its status was elevated to "villa" (village) by the Act of Ley Nº 7.837. On 18 June 1973 its status was further elevated to "ciudad" (city) by the Act of Ley Nº 14.138.

Population

According to the 2011 census, Sauce had a population of 6,132. In 2010, the ''Intendencia de Canelones'' had estimated a population of 12,041 for the municipality during the elections. MunCanSauce

Source: ''Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay''

Places of worship

* Parish Church of the Holy Family (

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)

Notable people

* Emiliano Albín, footballer

Archaeology

Uruguayan researchers working at the Arroyo del Vizcaíno site near Sauce found evidence suggesting that humans were in the area as far back as 30,000 years ago. This was discovered through the analysis of the ancient Lestodon sloth bones. Deep slash markings on some of the bones were discovered; they indicate the use of human stone tools.Richard A. Fariña et al, ''Arroyo del Vizcaíno, Uruguay: a fossil-rich 30-ka-old megafaunal locality with cut-marked bones'', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Published 20 November 2013,

References

External links

INE map of SauceArroyo del Vizcaíno - What we found
arroyodelvizcaino.org Populated places in the Canelones Department Pre-Clovis archaeological sites in the Americas {{Canelones-geo-stub