Why is there Italian influence in uruguay?

The immigration of Italian toward Uruguay is not a new phenomenon. Apparently the first Italians (mainly ligurians) arrived there already in 1500s. This was due to the fact that at the time Genoa was a “Maritime Republic.” (The same Christopher Columbus was from Genoa). read more

In Uruguay, although the Italian influence was more isolated (only 27% of the Italo-Uruguay reside outside the metropolitan area of the capital), there were different Italian communities and founded several cultural entities (as in Rivera, the border with Brazil). read more

The reason why so many Italians immigrated to Argentina, starting in the mid-1800s, was because there was more "room" in Argentina to absorb them, given that the physical elimination of the indigenous population in Argentina had gone further than in most Latin American countries. read more