But what about Uruguays solvency? The country of Uruguay has investment-grade sovereign bonds. The locally-owned banks are well capitalized and safe. In 2009, when most of the worlds economy was suffering from the global recession, Uruguay posted an economic gain. There were no failed banks, and the rate of nonperforming loans throughout the country was just 1%.

Uruguay has a wet, temperate climate. However, due to the absence of nearby mountains, which act as weather barriers, all locations are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes from weather fronts.

Uruguay is a nice place to spend time. Its a small food producing country, which offers a variety of pleasant lifestyle options that is out of the way of world conflict.

The documented inhabitants of Uruguay before European colonization of the area were the Charrúa, a small tribe driven south by the Guarani of Paraguay. It is estimated that there were about 9,000 Charrúa and 6,000 Chaná and Guaraní at the time of contact with Europeans in the 1500s. Fructuoso Rivera – Uruguay's first president – organized the Charruas' genocide.

Spanish is spoken everywhere. The pronunciation and the use of the vos pronoun instead of tú', ' is common around the Capital, as in many other American countries. The \"voceo\" means that most verbs are conjugated in the old form of Castillian, or Spanish. Portuñol (or Brasilero) is a mixture of Portuguese and Spanish used on the Brazilian border.