A famous example is the ill-fated Westward expedition of the Donner Party, and more recently the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, after which some survivors ate the bodies of dead passengers.

When Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes on October 13, 1972, the survivors resorted to eating the deceased during their 72 days in the mountains.

* 1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile.

* March 17 – The Uruguayan Air Force is founded.

* October 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14, 000 ' in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina / Chile border.

* The 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains that killed a number of rugby players from Uruguay.

* Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, a 1974 book by Piers Paul Read which documented the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains

On April 2 2012, an Uruguayan air company, Air Class Líneas Aéreas, gained permission from the Uruguayan Ministry of Defence to start a commercial flight to the Falkland Islands.

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A similar set of events to those that doomed Star Dust also caused the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1972 ( the crash made famous in the film Alive ), though there were survivors from that crash because it involved a glancing blow to a mountainside rather than a head-on collision.

* October 13 – Carrying the Old Christians Club rugby union team from Montevideo, Uruguay, to play a match in Santiago, Chile, a Uruguayan Air Force Fairchild FH-227 operating as Flight 571 with 45 people on board crashes in the Andes in Argentina at an altitude of 3, 600 m ( 11, 800 ft ).

Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based upon Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details the story of a Uruguayan rugby team who were involved in the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.

The story moves to October 13, 1972 as Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 flies over the Andes.

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On 13 October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D was flying over the Andes carrying Old Christians Club rugby union team from Montevideo, Uruguay, to play a match in Santiago, Chile.

The news that people had survived the 13 October crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 had also leaked to the international press and a flood of reporters began to appear along the narrow route from Puente Negro to Termas del Flaco.

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Lyrically, the album dealt with criticism of British and European culture, violence, morbidity ( especially in reference to the song " Passenger On The Menu ", which describes in graphic detail the experiences of the passengers on the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 ), atheism, nihilism and humour.

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On 13 October 1972 the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes, in the municipal territory of Malargüe ().

Read is best known for his non-fiction book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors which documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains.

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But RAF organisation and outlook were also partly modeled on the Uruguayan Tupamaros movement, which had developed as an urban resistance movement, effectively inverting Che Guevara's Mao-like concept of a peasant or rural-based guerrilla war and instead situating the struggle in the metropole or cities.

Drawing upon Switzerland and its use of the initiative, the Uruguayan Constitution also allows citizens to repeal laws or to change the constitution by popular initiative which culminates into a nation-wide referendum.

Garibaldi was also made head of the Uruguayan navy.

There is also a street in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo named Jorge Canning, which is coincidentally the location of the British Residence.

Lilian and Universindo's later testimony also proved that four officers of the secret Uruguayan Counter-information Division – two majors and two captains – took part in the operation under consent of the Brazilian authorities.

Club Atlético Peñarol (, from Latin pinarolium: pinewood ; English: ) also known as Carboneros, Aurinegros and familiarly as Manya, is an Uruguayan sports club based in the Peñarol barrio, Montevideo, best known for its professional football team.

During this period Peñarol had also the highest recorded unbeaten period in the Uruguayan championship, which was extended to 56 matches between September 3, 1966 and September 14, 1968, when they fell 0 – 2 to Liverpool Montevideo.

The La Plata dolphin is also widely known as the Franciscana-the Argentine and Uruguayan name that has been adopted internationally.

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Other mounted bands like the Mounted Fanfare Band Company of the 1st Mechanized Cavalry Regiment " Glorious Junin Hussars ( Peru's Liberators )" of the Peruvian Army, the Mounted Band and Bugles of the 1st Cavalry Regiment " Grenadiers " and the Band and Bugles of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment " Hussars " of the Chilean Army, the Mounted Band of the 1st Cavalry Regiment " José Gervasio Artigas's Own Blandengues Horse Guards " of the Uruguayan Army and the Mounted Band of the Ecuadorian National Police use both brass, woodwinds and percussion, and also utilize bugles.

The town is also the unnamed setting of the Uruguayan novelist, Cristina Peri Rossi's " The Ship of Fools " ( La nave de los locos ).

Important also to Luisi ’ s insertion into Pan-American liberal feminist networks and in her propulsion to the leadership of still germinating Uruguayan liberal feminism was her participation in the Women ’ s Congress ( Congreso Femenino ) held in Buenos Aires in 1910 ( Little 1975: 391 ).

Enrique Amorim ( July 25, 1900 – July 28, 1960 ) was an Uruguayan novelist and writer, best known for his story Las quitanderas whose plot centres on rural prostitution ; also known for his left-wing politics.

He was also the uncle of another Uruguayan president, Luis Batlle Berres and the great-uncle of the ex-president, Jorge Batlle.

Máspoli also coached Uruguayan club Peñarol, with which he won five national championships, the Copa Libertadores and the 1966 Intercontinental Cup, when the team beat Real Madrid 4-0 on aggregate.

It has since received some input from Uruguayan Spanish language and also Brazilian Portuguese language used on television and literature.

Before Tania's mother Nadia Bunke died in 2003, she also managed to have the book Tania, the Woman Che Guevara Loved by Uruguayan author José A Friedl, removed from sale in Germany.

The South American sea lion ( Otaria flavescens, formerly Otaria byronia ), also called the southern sea lion and the Patagonian sea lion, is a sea lion found on the Chilean, Peruvian, Uruguayan, Argentine and Southern Brazilian coasts.

During the same year the writer began farming in partnership with his friend, fellow Uruguayan, Vicente Gozalbo, and was also appointed Justice of the Peace in the Civil Registry of San Ignacio.

In Nacional, he established the record for the longest time without conceding a goal at 963 minutes, and also held the record of being the first goalkeeper to score in Uruguayan football, when he netted from a free-kick in a league win against Central Español.