Uruguay The Uruguayan peso is about $0.30 to the USD right now! That means 500 pesos would be worth about $166 and 100 pesos would be $33.

Uruguay está en Sudamérica (América del Sur). uruguayo(a)

La capital de Uruguay es Montevideo. Yo fui a Uruguay por tres días en 2009 con mi amiga Allison. El Congreso de Uruguay (left). I don’t know what the building in the middle is! :( A view of the city from the beach

El (yerba) mate y la parrillada La parrillada is a large platter of assorted grilled meats - morcilla (blood sausage), chinchulín (intestine), riñon (kidney), chuletas (steak chops), y más. El (yerba) mate is a bitter tea-like drink that is hugely popular in Uruguay and Argentina. Many people carry around a thermos, a guampa (the gourd-like cup, or just “mate”) and una bombilla (straw) and have it all day long.

Alive - Miracle in the Andes In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team was in a plane crash in the Andes mountains. Sixteen out of 45 people survived after cold, injury, and an avalanche took the others’ lives. Story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 Nando Parrado speaks Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union team, their friends, family and associates, that crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972, in an incident known as the Andes flight disaster and, in South America, as the Miracle in the Andes (El Milagro de los Andes). More than a quarter of the passengers died in the crash and several others quickly succumbed to cold and injury. Of the 27 who were alive a few days after the accident, another eight were killed by an avalanche that swept over their shelter in the wreckage. The last 16 survivors were rescued on 23 December 1972, more than two months after the crash. The survivors had little food and no source of heat in the harsh conditions at over 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) altitude. Faced with starvation and radio news reports that the search for them had been abandoned, the survivors fed on the dead passengers who had been preserved in the snow. Rescuers did not learn of the survivors until 72 days after the crash when passengers Nando Parrado andRoberto Canessa, after a 10-day trek across the Andes, found Chilean arriero Sergio Catalán,[1] who gave them food and then alerted the authorities to the existence of the other survivors.

El fútbol... y Luis Suárez Video Uruguay’s national selection made it to the Round of 16 in the 2014 World Cup, further than they had made it in a long time. However, their forward Luis Suárez (their star player), was ejected for biting an Italian player and banned from playing for four months, the longest ban in World Cup history. This was the third time he had bitten an opponent!

Criolla week in Montevideo Gauchos= South American Cowboys Traditional food, handmade goods, and South American cowboys riding wild horses at a festival of rural gaucho traditions in Montevideo Uruguayan gaucho traditional life Criolla week in Montevideo Gauchos= South American Cowboys

Recuerda: Uruguay La capital de Uruguay es Montevideo. El (yerba) mate is a popular tea-like drink, and una parrillada is a platter of assorted grilled meats. The Uruguayan rugby team’s plane crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972; this was the basis of the 1993 film Alive. Criolla week celebrates traditional “gaucho” (cowboy) culture Photos are from Punta del Este, Uruguay - “La mano en la arena” sculpture is a popular tourist site.