Uruguay and Argentina adapt to rising rivers

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Uruguay and Argentina adapt to rising rivers

El Uruguay is not a river, it is a blue sky that travels. So described the Uruguay river by the late Uruguayan poet and musician Aníbal Sampay in his 1963 song 'River of the Birds', an homage to the flow that passes through his native city, Paysandú. Its verses are a kind of sound photography: they preserve local characters, flora and fauna, and moments of river life. But they do not speak of the bad luck that sometimes brings the Uruguay River …