Uruguay
Northern Interior
Salto Department

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”, and “Salto, Uruguay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include 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: Fadesga, 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.

University
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
is an university.

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
United Nations Location Code
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 Arabic to Welsh—“Salto” goes by many names.
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “סלטו”
  • Hindi: “साल्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Salto”
  • Indonesian: “Salto, Uruguay”
  • Indonesian: “Salto”
  • Irish: “Salto”
  • Italian: “Salto Oriental”
  • Italian: “Salto”
  • Japanese: “サルト”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾಲ್ಟೊ”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Сальто”
  • Papiamento: “Salto”
  • Persian: “سالتو، اروگوئه”
  • Piemontese: “Salto”
  • Polish: “Salto”
  • Portuguese: “Salto”
  • 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”
  • Spanish: “Salto Oriental”
  • Spanish: “Salto”
  • Swedish: “Salto, Uruguay”
  • Swedish: “Salto”
  • Tamil: “சால்டோ”
  • Tatar: “Сальто (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Сальто”
  • Telugu: “సాల్టో”
  • Thai: “ซัลโต”
  • Turkish: “Salto, Uruguay”
  • Turkish: “Salto”
  • Ukrainian: “Сальто”
  • Urdu: “سالتو، یوراگوئے”
  • Venetian: “Salto”
  • Veps: “Sal’to”
  • Vietnamese: “Salto”
  • Volapük: “Salto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salto, Uruguay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salto”
  • Welsh: “Salto”
  • “Salto”

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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 “Salto”. Photo: Claudia Garay, CC BY-SA 3.0.