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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Timoteo Domínguez Island

Timoteo Domínguez Island (Spanish: Isla Timoteo Domínguez) is the Uruguayan name of an island off the Río de la Plata coast of Uruguay. It contains the country's only land border with Argentina.

Land border

The Argentine exclave Martín García Island is within the boundaries of Uruguayan waters since 1973, when both countries signed the Río de la Plata Treaty establishing Martín García as an Argentine territory to be exclusively used as a nature reserve. In 1961, river sediments gave birth to a small sand bank north of the island, within Uruguay's sovereignty, but as it naturally grew it formed into an island. Finally, in the 1980's, it merged with Martin García creating the very first land border between Uruguay and Argentina.

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