Rincón de Tres Cerros

Rincón de Tres Cerros.

Rincón de Tres Cerros is an area in the north of Uruguay between the Tacuarembó River and the Cuñapirú Stream in the Rivera department. The area owes its name to the three table-shaped hills dominating the horizon, aligned from south to north in decreasing size. The largest of them is locally known as "Cerro Alpargata" because of its shape seen from above, although in the maps it appears as "Cerro de los Chivos". The median is called "Cerro del Medio" and the smallest one has no definite name. Near the latter, on the other side of route 29 (which connects route 5 at the height of Manuel Días with Minas de Corrales) is another hill of the same height, called "Cerro Miriñaque". It is named for its shape that recalls Miriñaque, a type of skirts from the mid to late nineteenth and early twentieth century. They are covered with grasslands, and some native trees around the tops. At the tops of some hills of Rivera unique plants have been discovered in Uruguay [1]. The Cerro de los Chivos has eucalyptus planted along its northeast slope and east by UTE for supply of columns. Access to this area is hampered due to the sporadic increases that cut access bridges, Paso Rogelio on the Tacuarembó River, Paso Cunha in the Cuñapirú Stream, and Paso de El Sauce, in the glen of the same name. In recent years there has been a much lower frequency of flooding due to extensive afforestation activity in the basin, especially the Tacuarembó river. The corner has abundant presence of mountains in the banks and bathed of the two rivers that delimit it. El Rincon currently has only one public school, which is located on the slope of Cerro Alpargata. Formerly there were 3, one of them in Paso Cunha, which closed at the beginning of the '90s.

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