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Where to Stay in Montevideo

Where: Bartolomé Mitre, 1361, Montevideo, Uruguay

All this week, Eric Rosen will be bringing us his hotel recommendations for an interesting trip down in South America. He explains it all in our latest hotel guide--Budget Boutique Hotels of the 33rd Parallel South.

Ever since I first found Montevideo on a map as a kid, I’ve wanted to visit the strangely named city, not least of all because it was in an odd-shaped little country called Uruguay that I somehow thought was Paraguay’s little brother. Ah, the logic of kids. Little did I know that the city was only named Montevideo because someone read a map wrong. The name derives from cartographer shorthand, where the site it was founded was listed as Monte VI, E. Oe., meaning “Mountain #6 oriented east-west” in Spanish. Still, I thought it was worth a quick visit.

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