• The city faces the Plata River, the widest river in the world.
• Montevideo is the southernmost national capital city in the Americas, even though it’s on the north side of the Plata River, while Buenos Aires is on its south side, and the river flows eastward.
• Montevideo has been rated as having the highest quality of life of any Latin American city (according to Mercer) for every year in the past 10 years.