Uruguay
is one of the four countries that comprise the MERCOSUR,
together with Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. The "MERCOSUR"
(Mercado Común del Sur) is a market of 225 million
inhabitants with the highest income per capita of the
continent and a GDP over USD 630 billion.
Due to its geographical location, Uruguay
acts as a maritime and terrestrial link of communications
among the countries of the MERCOSUR, especially ARGENTINA
and BRAZIL, which responds to its geographical insertion
between the richest and more developed regions of these
2 countries. Supported by the agility of its financial
services, the wealth of its lands and the dense road and
of telecommunications network our country functions as
an easy access to the central axis of the agribusiness
in the Mercosur and its projection toward other regions
and countries of the world. Uruguay possesses a highly
literate population of 3,3 million inhabitants with the
highest income per capita of the continent and a high
cultural and professional capacity when compared to the
rest of the South American countries.
It is in this way that the Mercosur
finds in Uruguay its better gateway, that is to say, the
ideal platform to start agribusiness in the region towards
the rest of the world, supported at the same time by its
long economic and political stability.
RELEVANT FIGURES
* MERCOSUR is the 2ND WORLD producer
of Soybeans.
* Uruguay is ranked first in the world
in terms of surface per capita devoted to natural production.
* More than the 75% of the Uruguayan
exports correspond to Farm products and their by-products.
