词条 | Mones Quintela | ||||||||
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|official_name = Mones Quintela |other_name = |settlement_type = Town |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |pushpin_map = Uruguay |pushpin_label_position = bottom |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uruguay |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flag|Uruguay}} |subdivision_type1 = Department |subdivision_name1 = Artigas Department |leader_title = |leader_name = |established_title = |established_date = |area_total_km2 = |population_as_of = 2011 |population_total = 531 |population_density_km2 = |timezone = UTC -3 |coordinates = {{coord|30|22|24|S|57|39|50|W|region:UY-AR|display=inline,title}} |elevation_m = |postal_code_type = Postal code |postal_code = 55100 |area_code_type = Dial plan |area_code = +598 4778 (+4 digits) |website = }} Mones Quintela is a small town in the Artigas Department of northern Uruguay. LocationThe town is located about {{convert|20|km}} south of Bella Unión, on the shores of the Uruguay River and the stream Arroyo Itacumbú, just northeast of Cainsa. It is connected to the Route 3 by a local road. Origin of name and historyThe town takes its name from Alfredo Mones Quintela, an agricultural engineer, once a director of the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative in the 1950s.[1] The CALPICO sugar plant supported the vast majority of the population for a few decades, and was converted into a cooperative irrigation for vegetable and fruit crops and industrial plant is now used as a deposit for rice. On 5 and 6 November 2010, Mones Quintela held the first festival of sugarcane in Uruguay and commemorated the 25th anniversary of the denomination of Mones Quintela as a town. PopulationIn 2011 Mones Quintela had a population of 531.[2]
Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay[3] References1. ^{{cite book|author=National Council of Farmer Cooperatives|title=Blue book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CogoAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=31 May 2011|date=1 January 1954|page=51}} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.gub.uy/censos2011/resultadosfinales/artigas.html|title=Censos 2011 Artigas (needs flash plugin)|date=2012 |publisher=INE |accessdate=25 August 2012}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.gub.uy/biblioteca/toponimico/TOPOletraM.doc |title=1963–1996 Statistics / M |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay |date=2004 |format=DOC |accessdate=4 July 2011}} External links
1 : Populated places in the Artigas Department |
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