Division of the Territory—Situation of the Departments—Centre of Population.

The territory is divided into nineteen departments. The superficial area of each of them is as follows:

	Square	Square	Square
Departments.	Miles.	Leagues.	Kilometer.
Salto	4.270	474 ⁴⁄₉	12.601 61
Artigas	3.855	428³⁄₉	11.379 52
Paysandu	4.490	498⁸⁄₉	18.252 34
Rio Negro	2.870	318⁸⁄₉	8.470 88
Soriano	3.125	347²⁄₉	9.223 51
La Colonia	1.925	213⁸⁄₉	5.681 68
San Jose	2.35	262¹⁄₉	6.962 07
Flores	1.531	170¹⁄₉	4.519 36
Montevideo	.225	25	664 09
Canelones	1.610	178⁸⁄₉	4.751 95
Maldonado	1.391	154⁵⁄₉	4.105 57
Rocha	3.757	417⁴⁄₉	11.088 88
Cerro Largo	5.058	562	14.904 41
Treinta y Tres	3.232	359¹⁄₉	9.550 35
Minas	4.230	470	12.498 32
Tacuarembo	7.120	791¹⁄₉	21.022 49
Rivera	3.330	370	9.820 94
Florida	4.102	455⁷⁄₉	12.107 15
Durazno	4.850	538⁸⁄₉	14.314 89
	———	———	————
	63.830	7.036⁶⁄₉	186.920 01

In the centre of the territory are the departments of Durazno, Flores, Minas, Tacuarembo, Treinta y Tres, and Florida, surrounded by those of Artigas, Rivera and Cerro Largo, situated on the very frontier of Brazil; the Department of Rocha on the Atlantic Ocean; those of Maldonado, Canelones, Montevideo, San Jose and Colonia on the River Plate; and those of Soriano, Rio Negro, Paysandu and Salto on the River Uruguay.

All those departments count over a hundred centres of population, that is to say, seven towns, forty-eight villages, and thirty-nine colonies or smaller centres.