• after launching from Spain in 1789, the corvettes Descubierta and Atrevida visited Montevideo, Monterey, Macao, Nootka Sound, Dusky Sound and Doubtful Sound, on a four-year trip?

Facts on topics related to Montevideo

Buenos Aires

• Argentine adventurer Emilio Scotto had only US$306 when he left Buenos Aires in 1985 on his record-breaking 10-year motorcycle journey?
• Argentine President Juan Perón took refuge in the Libertador Building in Buenos Aires before he was deposed and exiled in a coup d'état in 1955?
• Ibrahim Hussein Berro was recently identified as the suicide bomber in the 1994 AMIA Bombing in Buenos Aires?
• during its operational history 1874–1926 the Argentine Corvette Uruguay (pictured) was a gunboat, school ship, expedition support ship, and Antarctic rescue vessel, and is now a museum ship in Buenos Aires?
• during the Puna de Atacama dispute the U.S. minister in Buenos Aires and two delegates from Chile and Argentina drew the northern portion of the border between Chile and Argentina?
• the conspirators for the 1810 Argentine Independence movement's May Revolution had their secret gatherings at Hipólito Vieytes′s soap factory in Buenos Aires?
• when the new Argentine dreadnought Rivadavia arrived in Buenos Aires on 19 February 1915, over 47,000 people, including President Victorino de la Plaza, came out to see the ship?

Quito

• the 2010 World Junior Squash Championships will be held from July 27 until August 1, in Quito, Ecuador?

Caracas

• the Soviet Union made its debut at the 1954 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Caracas and won 20 of the 30 gold medals?