The Santa Lucía River ( es, Río Santa Lucía) is a river in

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 ...

Course

The headwaters of the Santa Lucía River are in the

Lavalleja Lavalleja () is a department of Uruguay. Its capital is Minas. It is located in the southeast of the country, bordered to the north by the department of Treinta y Tres to the east with Rocha, to the south with Canelones and Maldonado, and to ...

department. For a large part of its course it forms the limit between the departments of

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and San José on one bank and Canelones and

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 other. Its outlet is 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 ...

, forming a small delta, in which

Tiger Island El Tigre is an island located in the Gulf of Fonseca, a body of water on the Pacific coast of Central America. The island is a conical basaltic stratovolcano and the southernmost volcano in Honduras. It belongs to Valle department. Together ...

is located.

Significance as a watercourse

It is the principal watercourse of southern

. It is the primary source of drinking water for

and other localities in the south of the country.

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Rivers of Uruguay Río de la Plata Rivers of Montevideo Department Rivers of San José Department Rivers of Canelones Department Rivers of Florida Department Rivers of Lavalleja Department {{Uruguay-river-stub

Course

Significance as a watercourse

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