70年代和80年代军人统治在南美洲的盛行严重地阻碍了该地区地理科学的发展.独裁统治者曾两度在阿根廷出现,第一次是1966—1973年,第二次是1976—1983年.独裁统治于1964—1984年在巴西出现,于1973—1985年在乌拉圭出现,而智利和巴西至今仍为独裁主义者所统治.本文将简要地介绍一下近几年来乌拉圭地理的发展情况和这个国家自重新获得民主制度以来在地理各个领域的研究情况.乌拉圭的经济结构和城市结构都具有其显著的特点.乌拉圭首都为孟特维德亚,全 The prevalence of military rule in South America in the 1970s and 1980s severely hampered the development of geography in the area, where dictatorships appeared twice in Argentina, the first between 1966 and 1973 and the second between 1976 and 1983 . The dictatorship appeared in Brazil in 1964-1984 and in Uruguay in 1973-1985, while Chile and Brazil are still ruled by authoritarians.This paper will briefly introduce the development of Uruguay’s geography in recent years and this The state of the nation in all fields of geography since the restoration of its democratic system Uruguay’s economic structure and urban structure have their own salient features: the capital of Uruguay is Montevideo, all