Mercedes

Mercedes is the capital of the department of Soriano, , located at the north of the department, on the south bank of Rio Negro. The city has 41,975 inhabitants.
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  • Type: City with 43,500 residents
  • Description: city in Uruguay
  • Also known as: “Ciudad de Mercedes” and “Mercedes, Uruguay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of Mercedes and Escuela N° 104.

Church
Photo: Galizbet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Mercy is the main Roman Catholic church building of Mercedes, Uruguay. It is the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mercedes since 1960.

School
Photo: MaFernandezBertta, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a school.

Mercedes

Latitude
-33.2484° or 33° 14′ 54″ south
Longitude
-58.0299° or 58° 1′ 48″ west
Population
43,500
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
United Nations Location Code
UY MER
Open location code
48R3QX2C+J3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 332598161
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3441684
Wiki­data ID
Q844914
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Satellite Map

Discover Mercedes from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Mercedes” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “መርሴድስ”
  • Arabic: “مرسيدس، أوروغواي”
  • Arabic: “مرسيدس”
  • Armenian: “Մերսեդես”
  • Asturian: “Mercedes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mercedes”
  • Bashkir: “Мерседес”
  • Basque: “Mercedes (Uruguai)”
  • Basque: “Mercedes”
  • Belarusian: “Мэрсэдэс”
  • Bengali: “মের্সেদেস”
  • Breton: “Mercedes”
  • Bulgarian: “Мерседес”
  • Catalan: “Mercedes”
  • Cebuano: “Mercedes (kapital sa departamento)”
  • Cebuano: “Mercedes”
  • Chinese: “梅塞德斯”
  • Croatian: “Mercedes”
  • Czech: “Mercedes”
  • Danish: “Mercedes”
  • Dutch: “Mercedes”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مرسيدس”
  • Esperanto: “Mercedes”
  • Esperanto: “Mercedeso”
  • Finnish: “Mercedes”
  • French: “Mercedes”
  • Galician: “Mercedes, Uruguai”
  • Galician: “Mercedes”
  • Georgian: “მერსედესი”
  • German: “Mercedes”
  • Greek: “Μερσέδες”
  • Gujarati: “મર્સિડીઝ”
  • Hausa: “Mercedes”
  • Hebrew: “מרסדס”
  • Hindi: “मर्सिडीज”
  • Indonesian: “Mercedes”
  • Italian: “Mercedes”
  • Japanese: “メルセデス”
  • Javanese: “Mercedes”
  • Kannada: “ಮರ್ಸಿಡಿಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Мерседес”
  • Kirghiz: “Мерседес”
  • Korean: “메르세데스”
  • Latvian: “Mersedesa”
  • Lithuanian: “Mersedas”
  • Lithuanian: “Mersedesas”
  • Malay: “Mercedes”
  • Marathi: “मर्सिडीज”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mercedes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mercedes”
  • Norwegian: “Mercedes”
  • Oromo: “Mercedes”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਰਸੀਡੀਜ”
  • Persian: “مرسدس، اروگوئه”
  • Persian: “مرسدس”
  • Polish: “Mercedes”
  • Portuguese: “Mercedes”
  • Pushto: “مرسیڈز”
  • Russian: “Мерседес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mercedes (Urugvaj)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mercedes”
  • Sinhala: “මරසිඩිස්”
  • Sinhala: “මර්සිඩිස්, උරුගුවේ”
  • Slovak: “Mercedes”
  • Slovenian: “Mercedes”
  • Somali: “Mercedes”
  • Spanish: “Mercedes”
  • Swahili: “Mercedes”
  • Swedish: “Mercedes”
  • Tajik: “Мерседес”
  • Tamil: “மேற்சிடெஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Мерседес”
  • Telugu: “మెర్సిడెస్”
  • Thai: “เมร์เซเดส”
  • Turkish: “Mercedes, Uruguay”
  • Turkish: “Mercedes”
  • Ukrainian: “Мерседес”
  • Urdu: “میرسیدیس، یوراگوئے”
  • Uzbek: “Mercedes (Urugvay)”
  • Uzbek: “Mercedes”
  • Vietnamese: “Mercedes”
  • Volapük: “Mercedes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mercedes, Uruguay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mercedes”
  • “Mercedes”

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