Mones Quintela facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Mones Quintela
Town
Mones Quintela Location in Uruguay
Country	Uruguay
Department	Artigas Department
Population  (2011)
• Total	531
Time zone	UTC -3
Postal code	55100
Dial plan	+598 4778 (+4 digits)

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

Geography

The town 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.

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. The CALPICA 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.

Population

In 2011 Mones Quintela had a population of 531.

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay

See also

In Spanish: Mones Quintela para niños