Uruguay
Central Interior
Cerro Largo Department

Melo

Melo is the capital city of the of north-eastern . As of the census of 2023, it is the ninth most populated city of the country with a population of 56,013.
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  • Type: City with 56,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the Cerro Largo Department, Uruguay
  • Also known as: “Melo, Uruguay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stadium Arquitecto A. Ubilla and Instituto de Formación Docente de Melo.

Stadium
Photo: SuperBraulio13, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estadio Arquitecto Antonio Eleuterio Ubilla is a multi-use in Melo, . It is currently used primarily for football matches and serves as the home stadium for Cerro Largo FC of the Primera División Uruguaya. The stadium holds 9,000 spectators.

College
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is a college.

Church
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The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar and St. Raphael is the main Roman Catholic church building of Melo, Uruguay. It is the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Melo. It is dedicated to the Virgin of the Pillar and the Archangel Raphael.

Melo

Latitude
-32.3681° or 32° 22′ 5″ south
Longitude
-54.1697° or 54° 10′ 11″ west
Population
56,000
Elevation
102 metres (335 feet)
IATA airport code
MLZ
United Nations Location Code
UY MLZ
Open location code
48V7JRJJ+Q4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 617428620
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3441702
Wiki­data ID
Q738250
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Melo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميلو، أوروغواي”
  • Armenian: “Մելո”
  • Asturian: “Melo”
  • Belarusian: “Мэлё”
  • Bengali: “মেলো”
  • Bulgarian: “Мело”
  • Catalan: “Melo”
  • Cebuano: “Melo (kapital sa departamento)”
  • Cebuano: “Melo”
  • Chavacano: “Melo”
  • Chinese: “梅洛”
  • Croatian: “Melo”
  • Czech: “Melo”
  • Danish: “Melo”
  • Dutch: “Ciudad de Melo”
  • Dutch: “Melo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميلو”
  • Esperanto: “Melo”
  • Finnish: “Melo”
  • French: “Melo”
  • Galician: “Melo, Uruguai”
  • Galician: “Melo”
  • Georgian: “მელო”
  • German: “Melo”
  • Greek: “Μέλο”
  • Gujarati: “મેલો”
  • Hebrew: “מלו”
  • Hindi: “मेलो”
  • Indonesian: “Melo, Uruguay”
  • Indonesian: “Melo”
  • Italian: “Melo”
  • Japanese: “メロ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಲೊ”
  • Korean: “멜로”
  • Latvian: “Melo”
  • Lithuanian: “Melas”
  • Lithuanian: “Melo”
  • Malay: “Melo”
  • Marathi: “मेलो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Melo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melo”
  • Norwegian: “Melo”
  • Persian: “ملو، اروگوئه”
  • Piemontese: “Melo”
  • Polish: “Melo”
  • Portuguese: “Melo”
  • Russian: “Мел”
  • Russian: “Мело”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Melo”
  • Sinhala: “මෙලෝ, උරුගුවේ”
  • Sinhala: “මෙලෝ”
  • Slovak: “Melo”
  • Slovenian: “Melo”
  • Spanish: “Melo”
  • Swedish: “Melo”
  • Tamil: “மெலோ”
  • Telugu: “మెలో”
  • Thai: “เมโล”
  • Turkish: “Melo”
  • Ukrainian: “Мело”
  • Urdu: “میلو، یوراگوئے”
  • Uzbek: “Melo, Urugvay”
  • Uzbek: “Melo”
  • Vietnamese: “Melo”
  • Volapük: “Melo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melo”
  • Welsh: “Melo”
  • “Melo”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Melo”. Photo: Godshawk, CC BY-SA 3.0.