Salto

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Salto

Total population

114,043

Elevation50 m

Coordinates-31.39°, -57.96°

Demographic figures from INE Uruguay. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Salto is a city in and the capital of the Salto Department in northwestern Uruguay. As of the 2023 census it had a population of 114,084 and is the second most populated city in Uruguay, after Montevideo.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Marosa di Giorgio

Uruguayan writer (1932-2004)

Edinson Cavani

Uruguayan association football player

D

David Texeira

Uruguayan footballer

Á

Ángel Melogno

Uruguayan footballer (1905-1945)

N

Nicolás Pereira

Venezuelan tennis player

José Leandro Andrade

Uruguayan footballer

Alfeo Brum

Uruguayan politician (1889-1972)

A

Alexander Medina

Uruguayan footballer and coach

Jorge Soto

Uruguayan racing cyclist

José Perdomo

Uruguayan footballer

R

Rafael Addiego Bruno

Uruguayan jurist and political figure (1923–2014)

Federico Moreira

Uruguayan racing cyclist

Heber Viera

Uruguayan athletics competitor (born 1979)

Pedro Rocha

Uruguayan association football player and manager (1942–2013)

J

Juan Ángel Albín

Uruguayan football player

Rubén Enrique Romano

Uruguayan painter and writer (1925-2005)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Salto

• Campo de Todos
  23.6 mi away · pop. 200
• Saucedo
  32.1 mi away · pop. 246
• Belén
  42.8 mi away · pop. 1,795
• Rincón de Valentín
  45.6 mi away · pop. 761
• Biassini
  49.9 mi away · pop. 422
• Pueblo Lavalleja
  58.9 mi away · pop. 1,128
• Pueblo Fernández
  95.2 mi away · pop. 247
• Lusambo
  5533.1 mi away · pop. 28,520
• Lomela
  5625 mi away
• Katako-Kombe
  5647.1 mi away
• Chamouny
  6859.5 mi away · pop. 4,700
• Surinam
  6859.9 mi away · pop. 10,500

Browse all places in Salto →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Salto

Hop! Hop!

Leslie Patricelli · 2015

Falling Man

Don DeLillo · 2007

The Big Bounce

Elmore Leonard · 1969

Night probe!

Clive Cussler · 1981

El abuelo que saltó por la ventana y se largó

Jonas Jonasson · 2012

The Spring of the Tiger

Eleanor Burford · 1979

Salto mortale

Luigi Malerba · 1968

RAZON POR LA QUE SALTO,LA

HIGASHIDA · 2014

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

fennel

Foeniculum vulgare

Seen 2026-09-19

hairy abutilon

Abutilon grandifolium

Seen 2026-09-18

common lantana

Lantana camara

Seen 2026-09-18

Solanum bonariense

Solanum bonariense

Seen 2026-09-18

Brazilian orchid tree

Bauhinia forficata

Seen 2026-09-18

hardy tapioca

Manihot grahamii

Seen 2026-09-18

Brazilian vaseplant

Aechmea distichantha

Seen 2026-09-17

Castilleja arvensis pastorei

Castilleja arvensis pastorei

Seen 2026-09-16

Nectandra angustifolia

Nectandra angustifolia

Seen 2026-09-16

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).