• Source: Swiss Uruguayans

Swiss Uruguayans are Uruguayan citizens of full or partial Swiss ancestry, who remain culturally connected to Switzerland, or Swiss-born people permanently residing in Uruguay. They are estimated to be around 60,000.




History


In 1860, the Basel bank of Siegrist und Fender purchased farm land in Uruguay. It was not long before the first Swiss citizens moved to Uruguay with the goal of working the land as farmers, where they founded the colony of Nueva Helvecia around 1862.
As of 2008, there were 956 people with Swiss passports residing in Uruguay.




Notable Swiss Uruguayans


Past
José Belloni (1882–1965), sculptor
Roque Gastón Máspoli (1917–2004), football player and coach
Juan José Morosoli (1899-1959), writer
Bernardo Poncini (1814-1874), architect
Present
Rodrigo Bentancur (born 1997), footballer
Julián Schweizer (born 1998), surfer
Matías Vitkieviez (born 1985), footballer
Walter Zimmer (born 1945), physician and politician




See also


Nueva Helvecia
Switzerland–Uruguay relations
Austrian Uruguayans
French Uruguayans
German Uruguayans
Italian Uruguayans




Bibliography


Caro, Marice Ettlin (2016). La Colonia Suiza que casi no lo fue: Nueva Helvecia (in Spanish). Marice Caro. ISBN 978-0-692-78715-1.
Sommer-Geiser, Jacob (1861). Lebens-Bilder aus dem Staate Uruguay in Süd-Amerika und seine Verhältnisse in agricoler, commerzieller und industrieller Beziehung für schweizerische Ansiedlungen. Basel.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)




References






External links


Pi Hugarte, Renzo; Vidart, Daniel (1970). El legado de los inmigrantes (PDF). Montevideo: Nuestra Tierra. (in Spanish)

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• Switzerland–Uruguay relations
• Foreign relations of Uruguay
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• Austrian Uruguayans
• Uruguay national football team
• Foreign relations of Switzerland