https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2 Made with an aura of mystery en-us 2019-03-06 15:18:12 UTC 2025-10-03 15:28:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pictureland.png lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338423755 Uruguay claims to be the birthplace of tango.]]> 2019-03-06 15:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338423755 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338424683 Uruguay’s motto is Libertad o Muerte, meaning Liberty or Death.

]]> 2019-03-06 15:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338424683 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338425441 In 2009, Uruguay became the first country in the world to provide every schoolchild with a free laptop and Wi-Fi access.]]> 2019-03-06 15:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338425441 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338425872 Over half of the country’s 3.3 million people live in the capital, Montevideo]]> 2019-03-06 15:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338425872 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338426698 Uruguay is the only country in Latin America which is entirely outside of the tropics.]]> 2019-03-06 15:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338426698 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338427993 José Mujica, President of Uruguay between 2010 and 2015, donates 90% of his income to charity.]]> 2019-03-06 15:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338427993 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338429269 2019-03-06 15:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338429269 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338429544 2019-03-06 15:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338429544 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338430699 I popular food in Uruguay is milanesas. Milanesas is meat covered with egg and breadcrumbs which are fried.]]> 2019-03-06 15:33:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338430699 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338431815 Population: 3,469,551
Life Expectancy: 77.49 years
Literacy Rates: 98.52 percent ]]> 2019-03-06 15:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338431815 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338433595 The first settlement on present-day Uruguay was founded by Spanish Jesuits in 1624 at Villa Soriano on the Río Negro, where they tried to establish a Misiones Orientales system for the Charruas. They  became independent of Portugal in 1822.]]> 2019-03-06 15:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338433595 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338434744 Uruguay's climate is very hot. The lowest temerature only goes down to the high 70s, and the hightest is above 100 degrees faren.]]> 2019-03-06 15:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/338434744 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/339336730 Uruguay's landscape if full of rolling hills, beaches, rivers, and estuaries. one of the main bodies of water is Rincon del Bonete Lake, along with the Uruguay River.]]> 2019-03-08 15:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/339336730 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/339339007 Uruguay's government is a presidential representative democratic republic, The president being Tabaré Vázquez. He is the head of the government, as well as a multiform party system.]]> 2019-03-08 15:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/339339007 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/339340373 SPanish is the main language spoken in Uruguay, the second most common language is Uruguayan Portuguese, and the third is Portuñol, or a mix of Spanish and Portuguese.]]> 2019-03-08 15:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/339340373 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/339342059 58.2% of Uruguayans defined themselves as Christian, 40.8% of the population professes no religion, and 0.5% as Jewish, 0.1% Buddhist.]]> 2019-03-08 15:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/339342059 lpollman53 https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/339347425 2019-03-08 15:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lpollman53/6ykipoqzo6f2/wish/339347425