Uruguay
Location
Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Brazil.
Vehicle security, personal security, general travel, navigation, building/office security, hot weather injuries, personal hygiene, sanitation/sterilisation, clothing & equipment, emergency first aid, cultures/customs, communications.
Use bottled water.
Mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland.
Warm temperate; freezing temperatures almost unknown.
Seasonally high winds (the pampero is a chilly and occasional violent wind which blows north from the Argentine pampas), droughts, floods; because of the absence of mountains, which act as weather barriers, all locations are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes from weather fronts.
Hepatitis A, polio, rabies, typhoid.
Hospital: British Hospital, 2420 Ave Italia, Montevideo. Tel: 2-471020
Water pollution from meat packing/tannery industry; inadequate solid/hazardous waste disposal.
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