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Salto Uruguay

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March 21st 2013
We arrived in Salto, Uruguay after a 5 hour bus ride from Parana to Concordia followed by a change of bus to cross the border into Uruguay which only took an hour including passport control. The bus goes over the hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay river which provides 65% of Saltos electricity. We decided to book a stay on a thermal spa ranch about 30km outside of Salto at Estancia San Nicanor. It ... read more

South America » Uruguay » North » Salto

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A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand i... ... read more