Liberdade ou Morte! ("Freedom or Death!") | ||||||||
| Capital | Sacramento | |||||||
| Largest City | Montevidéu | |||||||
| Other Cities | Salto Carrasco Paiçandu | |||||||
| Language Official |
Portuguese | |||||||
| Others | Spanish | |||||||
| Religion | Secular state | |||||||
| Demonym | Uruguaio Uruguayan | |||||||
| Governor | Daniel Martins (FA) | |||||||
| Lieutenant Governor | Graciela Villar (PS) | |||||||
| Senator | José Múgica (FA) Ernesto Talvi (PP) Danilo Astori (FA) | |||||||
| Area | 176,215 km² | |||||||
| Population | 3,518,552 | |||||||
| Time Zone | UTC-3 | |||||||
| Summer | UTC-2 | |||||||
| Abbreviations | URU | |||||||
The Oriental State of Uruguay ("Estado Oriental do Uruguai") is the southernmost state and one of the 39 administrative divisions of Brazil. It shares territorial borders with São Pedro and maritime borders with Argentina, with Montevidéu and Buenos Aires being adjacent cities by the sea. The capital of the state is Sacramento, a city founded by the Portuguese as Colônia do Sacramento, losing the first part after the Brazilian independence, while it retained the name of Sacramento. The city's nickname is A Colônia ("The Colony").
The territory that it is Uruguai today was mostly a Spanish colony until the invasion of Brazil during the War of Independence. Along with Paraguai and Misiones Orientales, the state was part of the Spanish territory transferred to Brazil in the Treaty of Montevideo. The state of Uruguai was initially created as the state of Sacramento, named after the capital, but after an intervention of Governor Fructuoso Ribeira and Consul José Artigas, the state was renamed to Uruguai.
The Uruguayan economy is widely concentrated on agriculture and livestock, being very related to the local culture of cattle farming and viticulture. Tourism also has a large significance for the state, since Uruguai, along with the Argentine province of Buenos Aires and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, are founding members of the Organization of the La Plata River (ORLA).
Uruguai is regarded as one of the most progressive states of Brazil, being the first one to legalize cannabis statewide in 2008, then followed by Guiana, Caiena, Bahia, and Ceará. It is a stronghold of the Broad Front and mostly left-wing parties, voting in the most progressive parties, except for 2014, when it voted for emedebista Aécio Neves in the run-offs.
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