City · Uruguay
Colonia del Sacramento
Colonia del Sacramento is the second oldest city in Uruguay, on the coast across from Buenos Aires, a World Heritage Site with its historic quarter of cobbled streets.
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The origin
What the date says
- Milestone
- Founding
- What happened
- Manuel Lobo, Portuguese governor of Rio de Janeiro, founds Nova Colônia do Sacramento as a Portuguese enclave.
- Year
- 1680
- Source
- Historical documentation / UNESCO
- Note
- Founded in 1680 by Manuel Lobo; the exact day isn't documented unambiguously.
Only the year is documented: if it falls between January 21 and February 21, the sign could be the previous one.
Keep in mind
Affinity is a symbolic reading from the Chinese zodiac tradition, not a measurement: it compares the sign of the year you were born with that of each entry's year of origin.