Mones Quintela

Mones Quintela
Town
Mones Quintela

Location in Uruguay

Coordinates: 30°22′24″S 57°39′50″W / 30.37333°S 57.66389°W / -30.37333; -57.66389Coordinates: 30°22′24″S 57°39′50″W / 30.37333°S 57.66389°W / -30.37333; -57.66389
Country  Uruguay
Department Artigas Department
Population (2011)
 • Total 531
Time zone UTC -3
Postal code 55100
Dial plan +598 4778 (+4 digits)

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

Location

The town is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) 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. ↑ National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (1 January 1954). Blue book. p. 51. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
  2. ↑ "Censos 2011 Artigas (needs flash plugin)". INE. 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  3. ↑ "1963–1996 Statistics / M" (DOC). Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay. 2004. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
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