Fray Bentos

Fray Bentos is in department of , at the border with . The town is best known, at least among travellers, for its former meat-packing plant, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  • City with 27,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 17 metres (56 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code FZB
  • Description: capital city of the Río Negro Department, southwestern Uruguay
  • Historically known as
    “Independencia”
    “Villa Independencia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gran Hotel Fray Bentos and Escuela 73.

Hotel

School
is a school.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barrio Anglo.

Village
is a village in the of .

Fray Bentos

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Latitude
-33.1165° or 33° 6′ 60″ south
Longitude
-58.3131° or 58° 18′ 47″ west
UN/LOCODE
UY FZB
Open location code
48R3VMMP+9Q
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Fray Bentos” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ፍራይ ቤንቶስ”
  • Arabic: “فراي بنتوس”
  • Armenian: “Ֆրայ Բենտոս”
  • Asturian: “Fray Bentos”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fray Bentos”
  • Belarusian: “Фрай-Бентас”
  • Belarusian: “Фрай-Бэнтас”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রায় বেন্তোস”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রে বেন্টোস”
  • Bulgarian: “Фрай Бентос”
  • Catalan: “Fray Bentos”
  • Cebuano: “Fray Bentos”
  • Chinese: “弗賴本托斯”
  • Chinese: “弗赖本托斯”
  • Croatian: “Fray Bentos”
  • Czech: “Fray Bentos”
  • Danish: “Fray Bentos”
  • Dutch: “Fray Bentos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فراى بنتوس”
  • Esperanto: “Fraj-Bento”
  • Esperanto: “Fray Bentos”
  • Finnish: “Fray Bentos”
  • French: “Fray Bentos”
  • Galician: “Fray Bentos”
  • Georgian: “ფრაი-ბენტოსი”
  • German: “Fray Bentos”
  • Greek: “Φρέι Μπέντος”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રે બેન્ટોસ”
  • Hausa: “Fray Bentos”
  • Hebrew: “פראי בנטוס”
  • Hindi: “फ्राई बैन्टोस”
  • Hindi: “फ्रे बेंटोस”
  • Indonesian: “Fray Bentos”
  • Irish: “Fray Bentos”
  • Italian: “Fray Bentos”
  • Japanese: “フライ・ベントス”
  • Japanese: “フレイ・ベントス”
  • Javanese: “Fray Bentos”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರೇ ಬೆಂಟೋಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Фрай-Бентос”
  • Kirghiz: “Фрай-Бентос”
  • Korean: “프라이 벤토스”
  • Korean: “프라이벤토스”
  • Latvian: “Frajbentosa”
  • Lithuanian: “Frai Bentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Frai Bentosas”
  • Malay: “Fray Bentos”
  • Maltese: “Fray Bentos”
  • Marathi: “फ्रे बेंटोस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fray Bentos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fray Bentos”
  • Norwegian: “Fray Bentos”
  • Oromo: “Fray Bentos”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ੍ਰੇ ਬੈਂਟੋਸ”
  • Persian: “فرای بنتوس”
  • Persian: “فری بنتوس”
  • Polish: “Fray Bentos”
  • Portuguese: “Fray Bentos”
  • Pushto: “فریے بینتوس”
  • Russian: “Фрай-Бентос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fray Bentos”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්‍රේ බෙන්ටෝස්, උරුගුවේ”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්රේ බෙන්තොස්”
  • Slovak: “Fray Bentos”
  • Somali: “Fray Bentos”
  • Spanish: “Fray Bentos”
  • Spanish: “Villa de Fray Bentos”
  • Spanish: “Villa Fray Bentos”
  • Spanish: “Villa Independencia” (historical)
  • Swahili: “Fray Bentos”
  • Swedish: “Fray Bentos”
  • Tajik: “Фрай-Бентос”
  • Tamil: “பிரே பென்டோஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Фрай-Бентос”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రె బెంటోస్”
  • Thai: “ไฟรเบนโตส”
  • Turkish: “Fray Bentos”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрай-Бентос”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрей Бентос”
  • Urdu: “فرای بینتوس”
  • Uzbek: “Fray Bentos”
  • Vietnamese: “Fray Bentos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fray Bentos”

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