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Welcome to Uruguay

José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano, President of Uruguay 

 

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Coat of arms of Uruguay

 

 

Location

Fast Facts

Capital: Montevideo 

 

Official Language: Spanish

 

Government: Presidential Republic

- President: José Mujica

- Prime Minister: Danilo Astori

 

Area: 176,215 km2

 

Population: 2009 estimate 3,494,382

 

GDP (PPP): 2011 estimate -

Total $52.111 billion - Per capita $15,469

 

GDP (nominal): 2011 estimate -

Total $49.423 billion - Per capita $14,671

 

Currency: Uruguayan peso (UYU)

Uruguay News

  • Costa Rica's Central Valley Gets Kudos

    Expat enclaves dot Costa Rica like so many fireflies on a dusky summer lawn, and right in the middle of all of them sits Central Valley and the country's capital, San Jose.

  • Jorge Rafael Videla obituary

    Jorge RafaA©l Videla in 1978, two years after he led the coup that overthrew the PerA3n government in Argentina.

  • Happy Mother's Day

    In 1922 she married poet Victor Piuma Velez who wrote the first set of lyrics for Desde El Alma.

  • South American climate change think-tank launched

    South America has got its first think-tank aimed at providing climate change knowledge to decision-makers to help them design tools tailored to local needs.

  • 'Artistic sensation' featured at Davis gallery

    A native of Montevideo, Uruguay, Rubio has lived in Davis since 2001 and has exhibited at solo art shows in San Francisco, Sacramento, Davis and Woodland; and in group exhibitions throughout Northern California, in addition to solo and group shows in his hometown of Montevideo.

Best of Uruguay | WTC Montevideo | World Trade Center Montevideo

 

WTC Montevideo is located only 15 minutes from Carrasco International Airport and the Port of Montevideo, next to Montevideo Shopping Center, in the city’s fastest growing residential and service area. It is the most modern business complex in Uruguay, with cutting-edge design.

 

Entirely integrated in the natural surroundings, with the most privileged panoramic view of the capital, it provides a strategic location, high quality services and, as part of the WTCA, a proven international dimension.

 

Its main goal is the promotion of business, international trade, investment, development of tourism and cultural exchange.

 

 

High Quality Services

WTC Montevideo offers users and visitors a work environment closely aligned with the best quality of life and productivity, allowing them to “work in the best place to live in.”

 

A sophisticated system centralizes the supply of energy, security controls and the maintenance of equipment and the installations.

 

 

Other Services Provided

World Trade Center Montevideo offers companies in its Building Complex, the country and abroad, as well as business members, the following facilities and services:

 

  • Analysis, diagnostics and design of a reengineering process to optimize the corporation.
  • Support for exports and imports.
  • Individual and collective business missions.
  • Access to product trade fairs and exhibitions.
  • Preparation to import or export.
  • Market searches for product/s and services (match making).
  • Advice in different areas: Accounting Department, Legal Department, Human Resources, Quality Management, Labor Psychology, etc.
  • Business education: WTC Montevideo organizes and supports conferences, seminars, courses, workshops and other modern training media.
  • A modern and functional Auditorium.
  • Feasibility analysis of product/s abroad.
  • Commercial and business information: provide information about companies, business and products in the country and abroad.
  • Leasing temporary offices by the hour, day, week or month. Secretary services by the hour, day, week, etc. Reception of telephone calls and packages, cafeteria service, photocopies, etc.

  • Translation.
  • Use of WTC Montevideo meeting rooms by the hour or day.
  • Videoconferences.
  • Messenger service (by the hour or day).
  • Organization of business events.
  • Possibility to include business opportunities and product offerings in the member network of more than 320 World Trade Centers, in 95 countries on five Continents.
  • Market research and commercial information on all the WTC regions, local products and services, market conditions, governmental regulations and profiles of local contacts.

 

WTC Complex

The WTC Montevideo Complex is made up of four towers (WTC 1, 2, 3 and WTC Montevideo Free Zone), two three-story buildings called WTC Plaza and WTC Avenida, and a big central square called Plaza de las Torres, where the Sculpture Promenade is located. The fifth tower, WTC 4, is currently under construction. The whole complex has an open floor structure which can be adapted to each company’s specific needs when they move in.

 

WTC Free Zone

In an ever more global and competitive international context, WTC Montevideo Free Zone opens the doors to growth and development in Uruguay. With cutting-edge characteristics, WTC Free Zone is a Services Free Zone which presents the ideal framework to develop activities abroad, combining a solid legal regime, with broad fiscal and customs benefits, and a strategic location in the region and the city. Its first-class infrastructure with the most advanced telecommunications assures users a complete array of services.

 

WTC Auditorium

WTC Auditorium and its foyer comprise a multifunctional space created to offer high-quality services to carry out all types of corporate and business events. It constitutes the ideal environment to organize:

  • congresses
  • conventions
  • business breakfasts and cocktail events
  • work and training sessions
  • product launching and exhibitions
  • diplomatic events
  • social, cultural and artistic activities

 

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