The flow of immigrants to Uruguay continues…

The flow of immigrants to Uruguay continues in spite of political and economic fluctuations.

From the 1870s to the 1910s, Uruguay's population will double to just over one million inhabitants, thirty percent of whom live in Montevideo.

Montevideo has also continued to experience modernization, including the installation of a telephone system (1878) and public lighting (1886).

At the same time, the euphoria and speculation of the 1870s and 1880s had seen a proliferation of banks and corporations and a stimulation of land sales, as well as the contruction of multifamily dwellings.