Mercado Modelo (Montevideo)

Mercado Modelo was the a central municipal fruit and vegetable wholesale market in of Montevideo, Uruguay. The area around the installations, which occupy several blocks of the Mercado Modelo–Bolívar barrio, has also taken on the name of the market, hence the composite name of the entire barrio. The central building has an area of 19000 m2, to which more buildings were added in 1996 of an area of 15000 m2, while the overall area of the market is 70000 m2.

In March 2009, the then mayor of Montevideo, Ricardo Ehrlich, announced that the market would be moved to the west of Montevideo.

The barrio
As a barrio (neighbourhood or district) of Montevideo, Mercado Modelo is part of the Mercado Modelo–Bolívar composite barrio. It shares borders with Bolívar to the northwest, Pérez Castellanos to the north, Villa Española to the east, Unión to the southeast and Larrañaga to the southwest. The barrio is home to the market of the same name, as well as to several big cold storage units, such as the Frigorifico Modelo and the Frigorifico Uruguayo.

Educational facilities

 * Colegio y Liceo Corazón de María (private, Roman Catholic, Franciscan Sisters of Christ the King)

Places of worship

 * Church of the Holy Apostles (Roman Catholic, Pallottine Fathers)