Fray Bentos
Fray Bentos is in Río Negro department of Uruguay, at the border with Argentina. The town is best known, at least among travellers, for its former meat-packing plant, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Eledu89, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: ViviAC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 27,000 residents
- Description: capital city of the Río Negro Department, southwestern Uruguay
- Historically known as: “Independencia” and “Villa Independencia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gran Hotel Fray Bentos and Escuela 73.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barrio Anglo.
Barrio Anglo
Village
Photo: Hegowiki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barrio Anglo is a village in the Río Negro Department of Uruguay.
Fray Bentos
- Categories: border city and locality
- Location: Río Negro Department, Rio de la Plata, Uruguay, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.1165° or 33° 6′ 60″ southLongitude
-58.3131° or 58° 18′ 47″ westPopulation
27,000Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)IATA airport code
FZBUnited Nations Location Code
UY FZBOpen location code
48R3VMMP+9QOpenStreetMap ID
node 313943603OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3442568Wikidata ID
Q849835
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Fray Bentos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فراي بنتوس”
- Armenian: “Ֆրայ Բենտոս”
- Asturian: “Fray Bentos”
- Belarusian: “Фрай-Бентас”
- Belarusian: “Фрай-Бэнтас”
- Bengali: “ফ্রায় বেন্তোস”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “פראי בנטוס”
- Hindi: “फ्राई बैन्टोस”
- Indonesian: “Fray Bentos”
- Irish: “Fray Bentos”
- Italian: “Fray Bentos”
- Japanese: “フライ・ベントス”
- Kannada: “ಫ್ರೇ ಬೆಂಟೋಸ್”
- 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”
- Persian: “فرای بنتوس”
- Persian: “فری بنتوس”
- Polish: “Fray Bentos”
- Portuguese: “Fray Bentos”
- Russian: “Фрай-Бентос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fray Bentos”
- Sinhala: “ෆ්රේ බෙන්ටෝස්, උරුගුවේ”
- Sinhala: “ෆ්රේ බෙන්තොස්”
- Slovak: “Fray Bentos”
- Spanish: “Fray Bentos”
- Spanish: “Villa de Fray Bentos”
- Spanish: “Villa Fray Bentos”
- Spanish: “Villa Independencia” (historical)
- Swedish: “Fray Bentos”
- Tamil: “பிரே பென்டோஸ்”
- Telugu: “ఫ్రె బెంటోస్”
- Thai: “ไฟรเบนโตส”
- Turkish: “Fray Bentos”
- Ukrainian: “Фрай-Бентос”
- Ukrainian: “Фрей Бентос”
- Urdu: “فرای بینتوس”
- Vietnamese: “Fray Bentos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fray Bentos”
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