According to COUNTRYAAH, The border with Argentina is marked by the Uruguay River. The official name of the state, República Oriental del Uruguay, is due to the fact that in colonial times this region corresponded to the Banda Oriental of the Spanish viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. A rich, democratic nation, known for its highly advanced social legislation, it was formerly referred to as “Switzerland of South America”. The good relationship between surface and population, small in number, was the basis of the extraordinary economic growth, centered on its greatest wealth, livestock, and a consequent social well-being. This solid prosperity, which failed both for internal reasons (a production disadvantage due to the same reasons that had made it a thriving country) and for external causes (the crises of the neighboring states which occurred in the 1960s), has taken over a development measured, thanks also to economic cooperation and integration with the markets of the rest of the continent.
Morphology
Uruguay has a very simple morphology being made up of coastal plains and areas intensely flattened by erosion, which has given them a gently undulating appearance: the average altitude is in fact around 100 m, while the modest mountain ranges, which do not they exceed 500 m in height (501 m reaches an isolated eminence in the south of the country), they cover just 3% of the total area. The territory represents the extreme southern section of the highlands forming part of the great Precambrian shield of Brazil. The rocks (mainly gneiss and granite), intensely metamorphosed and fractured, emerge in the open in the southern part of the country, reaching as far as the coasts of the Río de la Plata, where the (known locally as barrancos); in northern Uruguay, on the other hand, they are generally covered by powerful sedimentary series of sandstones, argillites and limestone from the Devonian (Paleozoic) to Triassic (Mesozoic) ages: they are also remarkably peneplanate and fractured and in several places erosive denudation phenomena have caused uncovered the crystalline substrate. There are numerous basaltic lava expansions, which occurred in the Cenozoic, in the context of the intense orogenetic activity of that era. Neozoic deposits, both continental and marine, cover the coastal strips and the lower areas of the valley bottoms. The relief is essentially divided into two main alignments that cross the country from NE to SW, the hilly ridges of the Cuchilla de Haedo, to the NW, and of the Cuchilla Grande, to the SE, delimiting the wide basin of the Río Negro; from them they branch out in various lower directions and gentle undulations, which are extinguished with rocky protrusions and barrancos on the Río de la Plata and with flat surfaces, edged with cords of sandy dunes and lagoons, including the vast Merín Lagoon (in Portuguese called Lagoa Mirim), on the Atlantic.
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Optimal travel time for the regions
In the following overview you can see the best travel time depending on the region (Uruguay).
| Place | Best travel time |
| Montevideo | January, February, March, April, November and December |
| Somersault | January, February, March, November and December |
Temperatures, precipitation in Montevideo (Uruguay)
| Jan | Feb | March | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Daytime temperature | 28 ° C | 28 ° C | 26 ° C | 22 ° C | 19 ° C | 15 ° C | 15 ° C | 16 ° C | 18 ° C | 21 ° C | 24 ° C | 27 ° C |
| Night temperature | 18 ° C | 18 ° C | 16 ° C | 13 ° C | 10 ° C | 8 ° C | 7 ° C | 8 ° C | 9 ° C | 12 ° C | 14 ° C | 16 ° C |
| Water temperature | 22 ° C | 22 ° C | 21 ° C | 19 ° C | 15 ° C | 13 ° C | 13 ° C | 11 ° C | 11 ° C | 15 ° C | 18 ° C | 19 ° C |
| Precipitation in mm | 87 | 102 | 105 | 86 | 89 | 83 | 86 | 88 | 94 | 109 | 89 | 84 |
| Rainy days | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 8 |
| Sunrise | 5:50 | 6:20 | 6:45 | 7:05 | 7:30 | 7:50 | 7:50 | 7:25 | 6:45 | 6:00 | 5:30 | 5:25 |
| Sunset | 20:00 | 19:40 | 19:05 | 18:20 | 17:50 | 17:40 | 17:50 | 18:10 | 18:35 | 19:00 | 19:25 | 19:55 |
Temperatures
The annual average temperature in Montevideo is 16.9 ° C. For comparison: Munich reaches an average of 8.6 ° C, in Berlin it is 9.6 ° C. The warmest month is January (23.2 ° C), coldest month of July with averages of 11.1 ° C. The maximum water temperature in Montevideo is 22 ° C. Comfortable bathing is possible at these temperatures. The months of January, February, March, April, November and December have a water temperature of at least 17 ° C. Bathing is then possible to a limited extent. The months of January, February and March have a water temperature of at least 21 ° C and are therefore suitable for a beach holiday.
Precipitation
The annual precipitation is 1101 mm on 103 days with precipitation. For comparison: In Munich, 967 mm, in Berlin 570 mm, precipitation is measured annually. There is no rainy season, i.e. months with more than 175 mm of precipitation. You cannot expect snow in any month in Montevideo.
Cities nearby
The following larger towns are nearby and have a similar climate: Ciudad de la Costa.
