San Javier
San Javier is a town situated on the east bank of the river Río Uruguay in the Río Negro Department of Uruguay. It was founded in 1913 by a Russian group of settlers, members of the New Israel religious sect, who migrated under the influence of the then spiritual leader Vasily Lubkov, from the Voronezh region of Russia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,930 residents
- Description: town in Rio Negro, Uruguay
- Also known as: “Colonia San Javier”, “San Javier, Rio Negro”, and “San Javier, Uruguay”
San Javier
- Category: locality
- Location: San Javier, Río Negro Department, Uruguay, South America
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Latitude
-32.66643° or 32° 39′ 59″ southLongitude
-58.13304° or 58° 7′ 59″ westPopulation
1,930Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
48V38VM8+CQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1338520866OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3440653Wikidata ID
Q518618
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“San Javier” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “San Javier”
- Cebuano: “San Javier”
- Dutch: “San Javier”
- Esperanto: “San Javier (Urugvajo)”
- Esperanto: “San Javier”
- French: “San Javier”
- German: “San Javier”
- Italian: “San Javier”
- Japanese: “サンハビエル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Javier”
- Norwegian: “San Javier”
- Persian: “سن خاویر”
- Polish: “San Javier (Urugwaj)”
- Polish: “San Javier”
- Russian: “Сан Хавьер”
- Russian: “Сан-Хавьер”
- Spanish: “San Javier”
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