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
Time zone	UTC -3
Postal code	55100
Area code(s)	+598 4778

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

Population

In 2004 census, it had a population of 601.^[1]

Year	Population
1996	616
2004	601

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay^[2]

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.^[3] 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.

References

1. ^ "2004 Census of Artigas department" (XLS). INE. 2004. http://www.ine.gub.uy/fase1new/Artigas/Cuadro7_02.XLS. Retrieved 4 July 2011. 
2. ^ "1963–1996 Statistics / M" (DOC). Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay. 2004. http://www.ine.gub.uy/biblioteca/toponimico/TOPOletraM.doc. Retrieved 4 July 2011. 
3. ^ National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (1 January 1954). Blue book. p. 51. http://books.google.com/books?id=CogoAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 31 May 2011. 

External links

• INE map of Mones Quintela