Department taken a bath by the River of the Silver that separates us of the Rep. Argentina. - Their costs made that it was center of attention from the time of the colonization, aspect that determined their full identification with great part of our history. - Their population is integrated with a mixture contributed by immigrants of Swiss and German, Spanish, Portuguese and even indigenous origin.
Their colonial cities conserve in many cases the typical features of the time.

AREA: 6.106 KM.2
POPULATION: 112.750 HAB.
CAPITAL: COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO