Santa Catalina is a village in the
Soriano Department
Soriano () is a department of Uruguay. Its capital is Mercedes. It is located on the west of the country, south of Río Negro Department, north of Colonia Department and west of Flores Department. Its western border is the Río Uruguay, sepa ...
of western
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 2, about northwest of
Cardona and southeast of
José Enrique Rodó
José Enrique Camilo Rodó Piñeyro (15 July 1871 – 1 May 1917) was a Uruguayan essayist.
He cultivated an epistolary relationship with important Hispanic thinkers of that time, Leopoldo Alas (Clarín) in Spain, José de la Riva-Agüero in ...
. The railroad track Montevideo - Mercedes passes through the town.
History
On 19 December 1940, the status of the populated nucleus here was elevated to "Pueblo" (village) by the Act of Ley Nº 9.985. Previously, it had been the head of the judicial section "Arroyo el Medio".
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Population
In 2011 Santa Catalina had a population of 998.
References
External links
INE map of Santa Catalina
Populated places in the Soriano Department
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