Rocha

Rocha is the capital of the department of the same name in the region of . While the department of Rocha is a popular area full of great beach towns, the city of Rocha is a fairly boring administrative capital, not any kind of tourist destination.
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  • Type: City with 25,400 residents
  • Description: city in Uruguay
  • Also known as: Ciudad de Rocha” and “Rocha, Uruguay

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Municipal Doctor Mario Sobrero and Teatro 25 de Mayo.

Stadium
is a multi-use in Rocha, . It is currently used primarily for football matches. The stadium holds 8,000 people and was built in 1955. It is the home stadium of Rocha F.C.

Theater building
is a theater building.

Rocha

Latitude
-34.481° or 34° 28′ 52″ south
Longitude
-54.3366° or 54° 20′ 12″ west
Population
25,400
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
United Nations Location Code
UY RCH
Open location code
48Q7GM97+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 321555078
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3440777
Wiki­data ID
Q1017387
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Rocha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: روجا، أوروغواي
  • Armenian: Ռոչա
  • Asturian: Rocha
  • Belarusian: Роча
  • Bengali: রোচা
  • Bulgarian: Роча
  • Catalan: Rocha
  • Cebuano: Rocha (kapital sa departamento)
  • Cebuano: Rocha
  • Chavacano: Rocha
  • Chinese: 罗恰
  • Chinese: 羅恰
  • Czech: Rocha
  • Danish: Rocha
  • Dutch: Rocha
  • Egyptian Arabic: روجا
  • Esperanto: Roĉa
  • Esperanto: Rocha
  • Finnish: Rocha
  • French: Rocha
  • Galician: Rocha, Uruguai
  • Galician: Rocha
  • Georgian: როჩა
  • German: Rocha
  • Greek: Ρότσα
  • Gujarati: રોચા
  • Hebrew: רוצ’ה
  • Hindi: रोचा
  • Indonesian: Rocha
  • Italian: Rocha
  • Japanese: ロチャ
  • Kannada: ರೊಚಾ
  • Korean: 로차
  • Latvian: Roča
  • Lithuanian: Roča
  • Lithuanian: Rocha
  • Malay: Rocha
  • Marathi: रोचा
  • Northern Frisian: Rocha
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Rocha
  • Norwegian: Rocha
  • Persian: روچا
  • Polish: Rocha (miasto)
  • Polish: Rocha
  • Portuguese: Rocha
  • Russian: Роча
  • Serbo-Croatian: Rocha (Urugvaj)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Rocha
  • Silesian: Rocha (mjasto)
  • Silesian: Rocha
  • Sinhala: රෝචා, උරුගුවේ
  • Sinhala: රෝචා
  • Slovak: Rocha
  • Slovenian: Rocha
  • Spanish: Rocha
  • Swedish: Rocha
  • Tamil: ரோசா
  • Telugu: రోచ
  • Thai: โรชา
  • Turkish: Rocha
  • Ukrainian: Роча
  • Urdu: روچا، یوراگوئے
  • Uzbek: Rocha (Urugvay)
  • Uzbek: Rocha
  • Vietnamese: Rocha
  • Waray (Philippines): Rocha
  • Welsh: Rocha
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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 Wikivoyage page “Rocha”. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.