General description
Nueva Palmira is situated at km 0 on the left bank of the River Uruguay 300 km northwest of Montevideo and has a population of about 9000. It lies at the mouth of the River Uruguay and faces the mouth of the Paraná Bravo (the northern arm of the Paraná, where it flows into the River Plate Estuary). For some years now it has been declared a free zone and is best known for the private transshipment terminal established by Navios, where certain bulk cargoes ex barges from Brazilian, Bolivian and Paraguayan up-river ports are discharged, stored and then loaded as exports on ocean going vessels.