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Uruguay is located in South America.

the languages that are spoken in Uruguay are Paraguayan Spanish, Venezuelan Spanish, Argentinian Spanish and Suriname Dutch.

There are 3.423 million that live in Uruguay on 74,655 sq miles of land.

The Flag of Uruguay is a very beautiful flag because it has a sun with a very happy face in the top left corner and it has baby blue and white stripes.

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Uruguay is reducing 20% of their port tariffs for cruise vessels and large yachts. They are doing this in hopes of having a more sustainable and environmentally friendly tourism industry in Uruguay.

“We are counting on the design and development of strategies which can promote an effective, sustainable and environmental friendly growth of the tourism activity”, said Uruguay Tourism minister Eduardo Sanguinetti.

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Some of the music and dance traditions in Uruguay include Candombe, Tango, and Gaucho. The Candombe dance is a dance with African roots which some believe is a foundation of tango.

An important festival that happens in Uruguay is called, Creole Week. Creole Week takes place in Rural del Prado, in Montevideo and features rodeos, horseback riding, and traditional music and dance. This festival celebrates the country's agricultural tradition, which blends African slave traditions with Portuguese and Spanish colonial traditions.

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In 2023, 3.8 million tourists visited Uruguay, the majority where Argentinians and Brazilians there where also many Chileans, Paraguayans, Americans and Europeans of various nationalities. This was a major increase from 2007, because in 2007 there were only 1.8 million tourists. Domestic tourist expenditures account for around 60% of the nation's tourist activity. Uruguay is one of the many Latin American countries that receives the most tourists in relation to its population. For Uruguay, Argentinian tourism represents 56% of the international tourism, and 70% of the tourism in the summer months. Tourists visit Uruguay for the beach vacation and for rural tourism.

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In Uruguay the most popular things that are consumed are beef, chicken, pork and lamb often barbecued as a traditional asado.

Asados are often eaten on weekends when there are special occasions such as birthdays, big family gatherings and or a birth, asados usually take around 2 hours to prepare and cook.

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In Uruguay they have many types of dances but the 4 most traditional are:

Candombe, Payada, Milonga and Tango.

Candombe is a historical dance that is related to the arrival of the African slaves; they kept the traditional dance and continued it in Uruguay, usually this dance is done in the streets like a parade. This dance also features two different drums chico, repique and piano(a soft playing drum).

Payada is a poetic musical dance that was formed by gauchos (Men that worked in the country side of Uruguay and Argentina also known as cowboys), their way of life paid great importance to their culture of music, dance and poetry. It is one of the first traditional style dance, from which milonga and tango were later created. This dance takes place in the payada(which is the main square of the town) which then two payadores would preform a verbal duel, with guitars, they would both then sing verses that established a poetic dialogue with each other.

The Milonga dance incorporated many elements of the payada dance but with African rhythms, quite simuler to cnadombe, this would all later integrate into tango, the styles of guitar and the themes of the songs would cneter around the life of a guachos. The main difference between Uruguayan and Argentinian milonga is that the Argentinian doesn’t incorporate African rhythms so blatanly, as it didn’t have any influence from the Uruguayan candombe.

Tango is a music and dance style that originated in the port cities of Montevideo and Buenos Aires.Its musical origins is a entierly new fusion and mix of African (candombe), Latin American (milonga), and European influences. The lyrics of these songs are usually about love, ther also include a lot of slang that was created in the working class. Nowadays, tango is iconic to the entireraty of Uruguay, not just the working class like it used to be, and can be danced in special tango clubs and bars, and seen in shows.

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The most populer sport in Uruguay is Football Uruguay won an Olympic gold medal in 1924, and another one in 1928, which were considered the most important tournaments in football, before the FIFA World Cup began in 1930, this is why there are the four stars on the Uruguayan jersey. The first World Cup, (which Uruguay won), was held the year 1930 in Montavito. The Estadio Centenario is the countries main football stadium , this stadiums main purpose was that is was built for the World Cup. Uruguay has many football players but theirt most populer are Luis Suárez and Diego Godin. Another populer Uruguayan player is Sebastian Abreu also known as "El Loco" , became an iconic figure in Uruguay, after chipping a goal during the penalty shootout, against Ghana during the 2010 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals.

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Doing this mini research project i have found out a lot about Uruguay and its culture but i think i enjoyed learning about the dance the most. The traditional dance in Uruguay is very interesting and colorful, the dances that are in uruguay have traveled the world and are much more interesting than the us dances