Argentine Uruguayans are people born in

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

who live 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 ...

. In 2010, there were over 10,000 Argentines living in Uruguayan territory.

Overview

Many Argentine-born persons reside in Uruguay, for a number of reasons. Both countries share the same

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, culture and ethnicity and their populations bear striking similarities; the historical origins of both nations is common (part of the

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); both countries are members of

MERCOSUR The Southern Common Market, commonly known by Spanish abbreviation Mercosur, and Portuguese Mercosul, is a South American trade bloc established by the Treaty of Asunción in 1991 and Protocol of Ouro Preto in 1994. Its full members are Argentina ...

, there is no need for special migration documents, and circulation is relatively easy. Uruguay is a small, quiet country, with wide beaches on the

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, so many Argentines choose Uruguay as their usual holiday destination, some of them even as permanent residence; Argentine people come to Uruguay in search of a better quality of life. The Uruguayan resort

Punta del Este Punta del Este () is a seaside city and peninsula on the Atlantic Coast in the Maldonado Department of southeastern Uruguay. Starting as a small town, Punta del Este later became internationally known as a resort for the Latin and North American j ...

is famous as "the biggest Argentine seaside resort". The 2011 Uruguayan census revealed 26,782 people who declared Argentina as their country of birth. In 2013, there were almost 6,000 Argentine citizens registered in the Uruguayan social security. Argentines in Uruguay have their own institutions, such as the Uruguayan-Argentine Institute, a bilingual school in

. In 2022, It was confirmed Colonia was going to make a

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in Colonia called 'Colonia Ala Este' to bring more

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

immigrants due to the bad economy in

doubling their population making their goal reach to about 60,000 people in total in Colonia. With an initial investment of more than US$ 100 million, it was planned to build a sustainable city open to the community to generate a hub for the knowledge economy industry on a 500-hectare site, which includes forests and seven kilometers of coastline. with beaches such as Calabrés and Fernando.

Notable people

;past *

Torcuato de Alvear Torcuato de Alvear y Saenz de la Quintanilla ( Montevideo, 1822 – Buenos Aires, 1890) was a 19th-century Argentine conservative politician. He was the son of soldier and statesman Carlos María de Alvear and father of Marcelo Torcuato de Alvea ...

(1822-1890), politician, son and father of presidents of Argentina *

Virginia Bolten Virginia Bolten (26 December 1870 – 1960) was an Argentine journalist as well as an anarchist and feminist activist of German descent. A gifted orator, she is considered as a pioneer in the struggle for women's rights in Argentina. She was de ...

(1870-1960), activist * Manuel Arturo Claps (1920-1999), writer, member of the

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Esteban Echeverría José Esteban Antonio Echeverría (2 September 1805 – 19 January 1851) was an Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and liberal activist who played a significant role in the development of Argentine literature, not only throug ...

(1805-1851), poet, writer, and political activist *

Matilde Ibáñez Tálice Matilde Ibáñez Tálice (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3 March 1907 – Montevideo, 4 September 2002) was a First Lady of Uruguay from 1947 until 1951 as the wife of former President Luis Batlle Berres. Ibáñez is also the mother of Jorge Batlle Ibáñ ...

(1907-2002), First Lady of Uruguay as wife of President

Luis Batlle Berres Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres (26 November 1897 – 15 July 1964) was a Uruguayan political figure. Background Batlle Berres was a journalist and prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party. He was selected — in hindsight, with far ...

, and mother of President

Jorge Batlle Ibáñez Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez (; ''Batlle'' locally or ; 25 October 1927 – 24 October 2016) was a Uruguayan politician and lawyer, and a member of the Colorado Party. He served as the President of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Jorge Batlle ...

Tristán Narvaja Tristán Narvaja (March 17, 1819 – February 19, 1877) was an Argentine and Uruguayan judge, professor, theologian, and politician. Biography Narvaja was born on March 17, 1819, in Córdoba, Argentina, to father Pedro Narvaja Dávila and moth ...

(1819-1877), legal scholar, compiler of the

Uruguayan Civil Code The Civil Code of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, Código Civil de la República Oriental del Uruguay) is a systematic collection of Uruguayan laws designed to comprehensively deal with the core areas of private law such as for dealing wit ...

José Rondeau José Casimiro Rondeau Pereyra (March 4, 1773 – November 18, 1844) was a general and politician in Argentina and Uruguay in the early 19th century. Life and Politics He was born in Buenos Aires but soon after his birth, the family moved t ...

(1773-1844), general, Provisional Governor and Captain General of Uruguay (1828) *

Alberto Zum Felde Alberto Zum Felde ( Bahía Blanca, 30 May 1887, 1888 or 1889Red Académica UruguayaAlberto Zum Felde – Montevideo, 6 May 1976) was a Uruguayan historian, critic and essayist. As shown by Arturo Ardao, Zum Felde is very relevant among the c ...

(1887-1976), historian, essayist and critic ;present * Thelma Biral, actress, studied with

Margarita Xirgu Margarita Xirgu Subirá (18 June 1888, Molins de Rei, Barcelona, Spain – 25 April 1969, Montevideo, Uruguay), also Margarida Xirgu, was a Spanish stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America. A friend of ...

and started her theatre career in Montevideo *

Julio Bocca Julio Adrián Lojo Bocca (born March 6, 1967) is an Argentine ballet dancer. Bocca spent twenty years as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. From 2010 to 2018 he served as artistic director of the National Ballet of Uruguay, administ ...

, ballet dancer, current director of SODRE National Ballet * Martín Bonjour, footballer * Emiliano Brancciari, musician * Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González, bishop emeritus of Melo *

Gustavo Cordera Gustavo Edgardo Cordera (born September 15, 1961 in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine rock musician, best known as the ex frontman of the band Bersuit Vergarabat. Biography Cordera's musical career began in 1988, when he was studying co ...

, musician, frontman of the band

Bersuit Vergarabat Bersuit Vergarabat is an Argentine rock band that formed formally in 1987. History The previous name of the band (from 1987 to May 1989) was ''Henry y la Palangana''. By the end of 1989, the band had changed name several times, adopting nonse ...

Cacho de la Cruz Arturo de la Cruz Feliciani, better known for his stage name Cacho de la Cruz (Buenos Aires, 8 May 1937) is an Argentine-born television presenter, humorist and entertainer who developed almost all his career in Uruguay. Son of Moroccan and Ital ...

, television presenter * Carlos María Domínguez, journalist *

Marcos Galperin Marcos Eduardo Galperin (born October 31, 1971) is an Argentine billionaire businessman, who is best known as the co‑founder, Chairman, President and CEO of MercadoLibre. With an estimated net worth of 6.1 billion dollars, as of April 2021, he ...

, businessman, founder and CEO of

MercadoLibre MercadoLibre, Inc. (literally "free market" in Spanish, and known as Mercado Livre in Portuguese) is an Argentine company headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, incorporated in the United States that operates online marketplaces dedicated to e- ...

Macarena Gelman María Macarena Gelman García (born 1 November 1976, in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan activist and politician. Biography Born in captivity to an Argentine mother, María Claudia García Irureta Goyena, her father was Marcelo Ariel Gelman Schuberof ...

, politician, granddaughter of poet

Juan Gelman Juan Gelman (3 May 1930 – 14 January 2014) was an Argentine poet. He published more than twenty books of poetry between 1956 and his death in early 2014. He was a naturalized citizen of Mexico, country where he arrived as a political exile of th ...

* Gabriel Migliónico, footballer * Mónica Navarro, singer and actress * Daniel Pereira, footballer

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