| Climate Uruguay :
| warm temperate; freezing temperatures almost unknown
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| Terrain Uruguay :
| mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland
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| Elevation extremes lowest Uruguay :
| Atlantic Ocean 0 m
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| Elevation extremes highest Uruguay :
| Cerro Catedral 514 m
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| Natural resources Uruguay :
| arable land, hydropower, minor minerals, fisheries
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| Land use arableland Uruguay :
| 7,43%
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| Irrigated land Uruguay :
| 1,800 sq km (1998 est.)
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| Natural hazards Uruguay :
| 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
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| Environment current issues Uruguay :
| water pollution from meat packing/tannery industry; inadequate solid/hazardous waste disposal
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| Geography note Uruguay :
| second-smallest South American country (after Suriname); most of the low-lying landscape (three-quarters of the country) is grassland, ideal for cattle and sheep raising
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