Salto

Salto is in the citrus growing region of the of , on the east bank of the Rio Uruguay. It is closely connected to the neighbouring city of that lies across the river on the western bank.
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  • Type: City with 114,000 residents
  • Description: city in Uruguay
  • Also known as: “Ciudad del Salto”, “Salta”, “Salto Oriental”, and “Salto, Uruguay”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Museo del Hombre y la Tecnología and Cathedral of Salto.

Museum
Photo: Lucia Giambiaggi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located in , . Its exhibitions are devoted to demonstrating how the evolution of technology has influenced the lives of the people of Uruguay and the rest of the world.

Church
Photo: Lucia Giambiaggi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint John the Baptist is the main Roman Catholic church building of Salto. It is the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salto since 1939.

Park
Photo: todotiempopasadofuemejor, CC BY 2.0.

Salto

Latitude
-31.3889° or 31° 23′ 20″ south
Longitude
-57.9609° or 57° 57′ 39″ west
Population
114,000
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
IATA airport code
STY
UN/LOCODE
UY STY
Open location code
48W4J26Q+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 332268980
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3440714
Wiki­data ID
Q335506
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Welsh—“Salto” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሳልቶ”
  • Arabic: “سالتو، أوروغواي”
  • Arabic: “سالتو”
  • Armenian: “Սալտո”
  • Asturian: “Salto”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salto”
  • Basque: “Salto”
  • Belarusian: “Сальта”
  • Bengali: “সালতো”
  • Bulgarian: “Салто”
  • Catalan: “Salto”
  • Chavacano: “Salto”
  • Chinese: “萨尔托”
  • Chinese: “薩爾托”
  • Croatian: “Salto”
  • Czech: “Salto”
  • Danish: “Salto”
  • Dutch: “Salto”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سالتو، اوروجواى”
  • Esperanto: “Salto”
  • Estonian: “Salto”
  • Finnish: “Salto”
  • French: “Salto”
  • Galician: “Salto, Uruguai”
  • Galician: “Salto”
  • Georgian: “სალტო”
  • German: “Salto”
  • Greek: “Σάλτο”
  • Guarani: “Salto”
  • Gujarati: “સાલ્ટો”
  • Hausa: “Salto”
  • Hebrew: “סלטו”
  • Hindi: “साल्ट”
  • Hindi: “साल्टो”
  • Hungarian: “Salto”
  • Indonesian: “Salto, Uruguay”
  • Indonesian: “Salto”
  • Irish: “Salto”
  • Italian: “Salto”
  • Japanese: “サルト”
  • Javanese: “Salto”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾಲ್ಟೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Салто”
  • Kirghiz: “Салто”
  • Korean: “살토”
  • Latvian: “Salto”
  • Lithuanian: “Saltas”
  • Malay: “Salto”
  • Malayalam: “സാൾട്ടോ, ഉരുഗ്വേ”
  • Marathi: “साल्तो”
  • Moksha: “Сальта”
  • Moksha: “Сальто (Уругвай)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Salto”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salto”
  • Norwegian: “Salto”
  • Oromo: “Salto”
  • Ossetian: “Сальто”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਲਟੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Salto”
  • Persian: “سالتو، اروگوئه”
  • Persian: “سالتو”
  • Piemontese: “Salto”
  • Polish: “Salto”
  • Portuguese: “Salto”
  • Pushto: “سالتو”
  • Romanian: “Salto, Uruguay”
  • Russian: “Салту”
  • Russian: “Сальто”
  • Rusyn: “Салто (Уругвай)”
  • Rusyn: “Салто”
  • Scots: “Salto, Uruguay”
  • Scots: “Salto”
  • Serbian: “Салто”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salto, Urugvaj”
  • Silesian: “Salto”
  • Sinhala: “සල්ටෝ, උරුගුවේ”
  • Sinhala: “සල්ටෝ”
  • Slovak: “Salto”
  • Slovenian: “Salto”
  • Somali: “Salto”
  • Spanish: “Salto”
  • Swahili: “Salto”
  • Swedish: “Salto, Uruguay”
  • Swedish: “Salto”
  • Tajik: “Салто”
  • Tamil: “சால்டோ”
  • Tatar: “Салто”
  • Tatar: “Сальто (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Сальто”
  • Telugu: “సాల్టో”
  • Thai: “ซัลโต”
  • Turkish: “Salto, Uruguay”
  • Turkish: “Salto”
  • Ukrainian: “Сальто”
  • Urdu: “سالتو، یوراگوئے”
  • Uzbek: “Salto”
  • Venetian: “Salto”
  • Veps: “Sal’to”
  • Vietnamese: “Salto”
  • Volapük: “Salto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salto, Uruguay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salto”
  • Welsh: “Salto”
  • “Salto”

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