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Las Piedras

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Las Piedras

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city in Canelones Department, Uruguay

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Las Piedras is a city in Uruguay, located within the Canelones Department. It serves as the capital of the Municipality of Las Piedras and was established in 1744. The city has a population of 71,268 and contains 20,544 households. Its total area is 13.41688, and it sits at an elevation of 81 meters above sea level.

The local postal code is 15900, and the dialing code is 2. Las Piedras is twinned with Santiago de Compostela. While one source lists the population as 69,682 and the elevation as 72 meters, the city is situated in the America/Montevideo timezone.

Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Openweathermap, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Place details

Locality
Las Piedras
Region
Canelones
Country
Uruguay
Population
69,682
Timezone
America/Montevideo

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Key facts

Country
Uruguay
Department
Canelones
Elevation
81 m (266 ft)
Total
71,268
Demonym
pedrense
Time zone
UTC -3
Dial plan
+598 2 (+7 digits)

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Travel guide

Understand

Las Piedras translates to "The Rocks". The Las Piedras Pueblo has the municipal buildings, a Roman Catholic church, a main recreational plaza, and shops.

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Encyclopedic overview

Las Piedras is a city in the Canelones Department of Uruguay. As of the census of 2011, it is the seventh most populated city of the country. It gives the name to the municipality to which it belongs.

Geography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Las Piedras” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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