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Place details
- Locality
- Minas
- Region
- Lavalleja
- Country
- Uruguay
- Population
- 38,025
- Timezone
- America/Montevideo
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Uruguay
- Department
- Lavalleja
- Total
- 19.6 km (7.6 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 140 m (460 ft)
- Density
- 1,970/km (5,110/sq mi)
- Demonym
- minuano
- Time zone
- UTC -3
- Dial plan
- +598 444 (+5 digits)
- Climate
- Cfa
- Website
- lavalleja.gub.uy
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- minuanas
- Population
- 38446
- Area
- 8.2
- Elevation
- 140
- Image
- Plaza Rivera, Minas.jpg
- Households
- 17806
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- Commons category
- Minas, Uruguay
- inception
- 1783-00-00
- postal code
- 30000
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Travel guide
Understand
The name of Minas is derived from its former meaning as a mining town. What is left is a large concrete production plant and mine to the west of the city.
Get in
Buses are available from Montevideo as well as from various cities in eastern Uruguay.
See
thumb|Sign at the beginning of the Fuente del Puma trail in the Salus Reserve
Eat
The Minas area is famous for alfajores, sandwich cookies with dulce de leche filling. You can find alfajores anywhere in Uruguay, but the ones made around here are said to be the best. They're very very sweet.
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Article
Minas ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈminas]) is the capital of the Lavalleja Department in Uruguay. As of the census of 2011, it is the twelfth-most populated city in the country.
Geography