URUGUAY

URUGUAY.

Salto Grande Dam (and coats of arms of Uruguay and Argentina).
Stamp issued on 19.06.1979.
Face value: 2 Uruguayan new pesos.
Design; Ángel Medina Medina (1914-1980).
Printed by Imprenta Nacional, Montevideo.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 50,000 copies.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1547.
- Scott No. 1043.
- StampWorld No. 1546.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1710.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1025

The Salto Grande Dam (officially, in Spanish: Central Hidroeléctrica Binacional Salto Grande) is a large hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River, located between Salto, Uruguay, and Concordia, Argentina; it is therefore shared by the two countries. Construction of the dam began on April 1, 1974 and was completed on June 21, 1979. The reservoir has a total area of 783 km² (302 sq mi), while its maximum dimensions are 140 by 9 km (87.0 mi × 5.6 mi). The levee is 65 m (213 ft) high and 3,000 m (9,800 ft) long.

URUGUAY

URUGUAY.

150th anniversary of the Topography Directorate, 1831-1981. 
Stylized map of Uruguay.
Stamp issued on 03.12.1981.
Face value: 2 Uruguayan new pesos.
Design: Rubens Barragán.
Printing: Offeset lithography.
Printed by Imprenta Nacional, Montevideo.
Print: 100,000 copies.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 1635.
- Scott No. 1116.
- StampWorld No. 1634.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1793.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1095.

The National Topography Directorate (Dirección Nacional de Topografía) of the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works of Uruguay, located in Montevideo, was founded on December 3, 1831 with the creation of a Topographic Commission that was to draw up the first topographic chart of the country and with other objectives in the medium and long term, including carrying out studies, works and reports on surveying for the State, producing and maintaining the basic cartography of the entire country and preserving, guarding and managing basic geographic data of the national territory. From the foundation, a National Archive of Measurement Plans was established.

URUGUAY

URUGUAY.

URUEXPO 74.
250th anniversary of the fortification of Montevideo.
Map of Montevideo Bay by Domingo Petrarca (1719).
Stamp issued on 19.10.1974.
Face value: 300 Uruguayan pesos.
Design: Álvaro Sanjurjo Toucon (b. 1942).
Printed by Imprenta Nacional, Montevideo.
Printing: Offset Lithography.
Print: 100,000 copies.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 1325.
- Scott No. 891.
- StampWorld No. 1326.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1581.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 894.

Between 1680 and 1683, the Kingdom of Portugal founded the Colonia do Sacramento, on the banks of the Río de la Plata, opposite Buenos Aires, and on November 22, 1723 Manuel de Freytas Fonseca founded the fort of Montevideo. On January 22, 1724, the Spanish displaced the Portuguese and began to populate the new city. On December 24, 1726 it was designated as San Felipe and Santiago de Montevideo. In 1810 the capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was established there. In 1816, however, Portugal invaded the territory and in 1821 annexed the Banda Oriental to Brazil. Juan Antonio Lavalleja and his companions, the Treinta y Tres Orientales, reestablished independence in 1825. After the signing of the Preliminary Peace Convention and the consolidation of Uruguay as an independent State in 1828, the city became the national capital, and in 1829 the fortifications began to be demolished.

Domingo Petrarca was a military engineer of Italian origin in the service of the Crown of Spain. In 1717, before the advance of the Portuguese, he was commissioned to design a plan of the bay of Montevideo, which was published in 1719. In 1724, after the founding of Montevideo, he planned the fortifications and designed the city where they would stay the new families. The place and date of his birth are unknown, but it is known that he died in Buenos Aires in 1736.

URUGUAY

URUGUAY.

Visit of Archbishop Makarios, president of Chypre.
Stylized map of the island of Cyprus and portrait of Archbishop Makarios.
Airmail stamp issued on 15.02.1967.
Face value: 6.60 Uruguayan pesos.
Design: Ángel Medina Medina (1914-1980).
Printed in the Imprenta Nacional, Montevideo.

Catalogues
- StampWorld No. 1068.
- Yvert et Tellier, PA 305.

Makarios III (Μακάριος Γ΄), born Michael Christodoulou Mouskos (Μιχαήλ Χριστοδούλου Μούσκος) in Ano Panayia (Paphos District) on 13 August 1913, died in Nicosia on 3 August 1977, was a Cypriot clergyman and politician who served as the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Church of Cyprus (1950–1977) and as the first president of the Republic of Cyprus (1960–1977).

URUGUAY

URUGUAY.

Tourism promotion. Simplified map of Uruguay.
Stamp issued on 08.07.1970.
Face value: 5 Uruguayan pesos.
Design; Ángel Medina Medina.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Printed by Impenta Nacional, Montevideo.
Print: 5,000,000 copies.
Size: 39,2 x 29,5 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 1172.
- StampWorld No. 1172.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1429.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 787A.