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 26,800 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
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theater building.

School
Photo: Maywiki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a school.

Rocha

Latitude
-34.481° or 34° 28′ 52″ south
Longitude
-54.3366° or 54° 20′ 12″ west
Population
26,800
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

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

From Amharic to Welsh—“Rocha” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሮቻ”
  • Arabic: “روتشا”
  • Arabic: “روجا، أوروغواي”
  • Armenian: “Ռոչա”
  • Asturian: “Rocha”
  • Azerbaijani: “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”
  • Hausa: “Rocha”
  • Hebrew: “רוצ’ה”
  • Hindi: “रोचा”
  • Indonesian: “Rocha”
  • Italian: “Rocha”
  • Japanese: “ロチャ”
  • Javanese: “Rocha”
  • Kannada: “ರೊಚಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Роча”
  • Kirghiz: “Роча”
  • Korean: “로차”
  • Latvian: “Roča”
  • Lithuanian: “Roča”
  • Lithuanian: “Rocha”
  • Malay: “Rocha”
  • Marathi: “रोचा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rocha”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rocha”
  • Norwegian: “Rocha”
  • Oromo: “Rocha”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੋਚਾ”
  • Persian: “روچا”
  • Polish: “Rocha (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Rocha”
  • Portuguese: “Rocha”
  • Pushto: “روچا”
  • Russian: “Роча”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rocha (Urugvaj)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rocha”
  • Silesian: “Rocha (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Rocha”
  • Sinhala: “රෝචා, උරුගුවේ”
  • Sinhala: “රෝචා”
  • Slovak: “Rocha”
  • Slovenian: “Rocha”
  • Somali: “Rocha”
  • Spanish: “Rocha”
  • Swahili: “Rocha”
  • Swedish: “Rocha”
  • Tajik: “Роча”
  • Tamil: “ரோசா”
  • Tatar: “Роча”
  • Telugu: “రోచ”
  • Thai: “โรชา”
  • Turkish: “Rocha”
  • Ukrainian: “Роча”
  • Urdu: “روچا، یوراگوئے”
  • Uzbek: “Rocha (Urugvay)”
  • Uzbek: “Rocha”
  • Vietnamese: “Rocha”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rocha”
  • Welsh: “Rocha”
  • “Rocha”

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