is the capital of Uruguay.It sits on the northern bank of the channel from the Atlantic to Buenos Aires and beyond. The history seems to be that it was settled by the Spanish from Buenos Aires in a blocking effort to keep the Portuguese from traveling from Brazil down the river. There is a rather large Jewish community there as it was one of the earliest settlements of the Jews leaving the middle east and Europe. I took a tour with a lady who is of the local Jewish community and learned some interesting facts. We visited a Holocaust memorial that the city erected on the beach and two different synagogues.
I will be back here to check out the beach life. Worth a couple of weeks.
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