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词条 Mones Quintela
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  1. Location

  2. Origin of name and history

  3. Population

  4. References

  5. External links

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Mones Quintela is a small town in the Artigas Department of northern Uruguay.

Location

The 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 history

The 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.

Population

In 2011 Mones Quintela had a population of 531.[2]

Year Population
1996 616
2004 601
2011 531

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay[3]

References

1. ^{{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

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20121010043131/http://www.ine.gub.uy/mapas/censos2011/para%20colgar%20en%20web/pdf/02_UYAR/Localidades/A3H_02833%20Mones%20Quintela.pdf INE map of Mones Quintela]
{{Artigas Department}}{{artigas-geo-stub}}

1 : Populated places in the Artigas Department

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