avors of local cuisine with the imperative for social bonding and communication across food preparation and sharing. Uruguayan carnivals stir up the settled Argentinian influences of gaucho culture, stomping and thumping with the Brazilian impact of the candombe folkloric percussion street bands of around fortyish musicians who pound their barrel-shaped drums in echoes of the music created by the Uruguayan Black population in the nineteenth century. Ultimately, the national passion for soccer, or football, has acted as a fabled and legendary glue sustaining cohesion and binding together this minuscule nation of immigrants into a tight-knit family, all mutually responsible for each other’s safety and success. This feeling extends from the miraculous triumph over Brazil at the World Cup in 1950, through improvised kids’ practice matches in the streets, to one of the most efficient social security and welfare system in South America. Uruguay is all for one, one for all.
Folleto informativo emitido por la Dirección General de Turismo del Departamento de Maldonado.
Museo del Gaucho y de la Moneda.
Uruguay Visión 2011. Ministerio de Turismo y Deporte.
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