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Isla Timoteo Domínguez | |
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_le.Mart%25C3%25ADn_Garc%25C3%25ADa_Island%2cAR%2cri.Timoteo_Dom%25C3%25ADnguez_Island%2cUY_fri29nov2019-0651h(UTC-3).jpg) Aerial view of the island formed by (former) islands Timoteo Domínguez (Uruguay) (top right), and Martín García (Argentina) (bottom left), looking west (November 2019) | |
 Diagram of Timoteo Domínguez andMartín García Islands | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Río de la Plata |
| Coordinates | 34°10.2′S58°15.4′W / 34.1700°S 58.2567°W /-34.1700; -58.2567 |
| Area | 1.9 km2 (0.73 sq mi) |
| Administration | |
| Department | Colonia |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 0 |
Timoteo Domínguez Island (Spanish:Isla Timoteo Domínguez) is the Uruguayan name of an island off theRío de la Plata coast ofUruguay. It contains the country's only land border withArgentina.
The ArgentineexclaveMartín García Island is within the boundaries of Uruguayan waters since 1973, when both countries signed theRío 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.[1]
