Montevideo — Montevideo Map Poster & Print

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Montevideo Map Poster & Print

Montevideo sits on the northern shore of the Río de la Plata, where the river opens toward the Atlantic. From above, the city starts on a narrow peninsula: the Ciudad Vieja, a tight grid of colonial blocks with water on three sides. Behind it the Bay of Montevideo cuts in, and the harbour's piers and basins give the western edge of the map a hard, industrial line.

East of the old town the grid widens and runs inland along Avenida 18 de Julio, the main axis that starts at Plaza Independencia. Farther out, the city goes on in neighbourhoods of mid-rise blocks and tree-lined streets. The coast is lined by the Rambla, a waterfront road and promenade that follows every beach and headland for more than twenty kilometres. On a Montevideo map poster it reads as a single calm line tracing the edge of the land.

Across the bay stands the Cerro, the low hill that some accounts say gave the city its name, with a fortress on its summit. Montevideo is Uruguay's capital and home to about half of the country's people. In 1930 it hosted the first FIFA World Cup, playing the final at the Estadio Centenario in Parque Batlle, and Uruguay won.