Cerro Largo, a department in the NE. of Uruguay, well watered, with large savannahs and forests. Area, 5735 sq. m.; pop. (1894) 36,000, chiefly engaged in cattle-raising. Capital, Cerro Largo or Melo; pop. 5000.
Cerro Largo
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 72
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