La Paz is a village in the
Colonia Department of southwestern
Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of 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 the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...
.
Geography
The village is located on Route 52, south of
Route 1. It is about southwest of
Colonia Valdense
Colonia Valdense is a small city located in southwestern Uruguay, within the Colonia Department. It is home to around 3,200 people.
Geography
It lies along Route 1, west of Montevideo and about west of its intersection with Route 51.
Histor ...
and southwest of
Nueva Helvecia
Nueva Helvecia (Spanish for "New Helvetia"; formerly known as Colonia Suiza) is a city in Colonia Department of Uruguay.
It is west of Montevideo, the capital and largest city of Uruguay, and a few kilometres from the coast where the Atlantic Oce ...
.
History
This village was established in 1858 as a
Waldensian colony.
Population
In 2011 La Paz had a population of 603.
Source: ''Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay''
Places of worship
*
Waldensian Evangelical Church
The Waldensian Evangelical Church (''Chiesa Evangelica Valdese'', CEV) is a Protestant denomination active in Italy and Switzerland that was independent until it united with the Methodist Evangelical Church in Italy in the Union of Methodist and ...
(
Waldensians
The Waldensians, also known as Waldenses (), Vallenses, Valdesi, or Vaudois, are adherents of a church tradition that began as an ascetic movement within Western Christianity before the Reformation. Originally known as the Poor of Lyon in the l ...
)
[Colonia Valdense](_blank)
*
Holy Cross Chapel (
Roman Catholic
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
)
References
External links
INE map of La Paz
Populated places in the Colonia Department
{{Colonia-geo-stub