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Minas de Corrales
Riveratown
Total population
3,641
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Overview
Minas de Corrales is a town in the Rivera Department of northeastern Uruguay.
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History
In 1878 the mining company Compañía Francesa de Minas de Oro del Uruguay started looking for gold in the area, giving thus birth to the town. From the end of December 1879 to the start of March 1880 Henry Küss visited Uruguay to evaluate the gold concession on the Arroyo Corrales. The company was looking for at least 8 million francs to develop the mines. Küss undertook a careful survey of the mineralogy. His report was unenthusiastic, saying only that it might be worth spending two or three hundred thousand francs on a more systematic study. In 1902 the railway line was inaugurated, which operated until 1916, when the company ended. On 9 November 1920, it was declared a "Pueblo" (village) by the Act of Ley Nº 7.299, In 1997 the mining operations resumed by the company Uruguay Mineral Exploration (UME).
Geography
The town is located on the banks of the stream Arroyo Corrales, on the intersection of Route 28 with Route 400, about south of the city of Rivera.
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Nearby places in Rivera
- Las Flores21.9 mi away · pop. 373
- Paso Ataques25.9 mi away · pop. 868
- Moirones28.9 mi away · pop. 213
- Lapuente30.8 mi away · pop. 295
- Tranqueras31.1 mi away · pop. 7,743
- Lagos del Norte40.5 mi away · pop. 624
- Masoller45.8 mi away · pop. 312
- Rivera46.4 mi away · pop. 84,775
- Vichadero48.1 mi away · pop. 3,919
- Paso Hospital50.5 mi away · pop. 273
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- • Wikidata
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
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- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image