Red de Calidad de Aire: Montevideo's Air-Quality Monitoring Network
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Montevideo has measured its air since 2005 and publishes the readings almost in real time. When wildfire smoke raised particulates in 2024, the plan was to tell two ministries.
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The Intendencia de Montevideo has run a systematic air-quality network since 2005, set up with equipment and technical support from the national environment directorate, which still feeds in data from one automatic station on Avenida Italia. Weekly reports go on the city's website and to the Ministry of Environment, readings appear almost in real time on the Montevidata portal, and the data are also published in the city's and the national open-data catalogues. The national statistics yearbook reprints the network's annual averages for black smoke, total suspended particles, PM10 and sulphur dioxide, and notes that black smoke and SO2 were not measured from March 2020 because of the health emergency. During the regional wildfire smoke of September 2024, the city's air-quality engineer said particulate matter had risen at Montevideo's stations and that the network has nine stations.
🎓 Lesson
Montevideo's network answers the atlas's recurring question, whether a reading has a consequence, with a publication rather than a measure. In the September 2024 smoke episode the city's stated procedure was that a 24-hour exceedance of the standard would be reported to the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Public Health, while the health ministry's advice to residents ran separately. Two decades of continuous, openly published readings make a record; nothing in the sources makes them a trigger.
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has run a systematic air-quality network since 2005
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set up with equipment and technical support from the national environment directorate
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still feeds in data from one automatic station on Avenida Italia
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Weekly reports go on the city's website and to the Ministry of Environment
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readings appear almost in real time on the Montevidata portal
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the data are also published in the city's and the national open-data catalogues
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reprints the network's annual averages for black smoke, total suspended particles, PM10 and sulphur dioxide
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black smoke and SO2 were not measured from March 2020 because of the health emergency
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the city's air-quality engineer said particulate matter had risen at Montevideo's stations
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the network has nine stations
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a 24-hour exceedance of the standard would be reported to the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Public Health
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the health ministry's advice to residents ran separately
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nothing in the sources makes them a trigger
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Intendencia de Montevideo — Unidad Calidad de Aire, Servicio de Evaluación de la Calidad y Control Ambiental
- Actor types
- city-government, national-government
- Funding model
- public
- Funding description
- Run by the Intendencia de Montevideo; the national environment directorate (then Dinama) contributed equipment and technical support when the network was set up, and its successor Dinacea supplies data from one automatic station.
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3 source dossiers
Ministerio de Ambiente — Invertir en aire limpio (air-quality policy page)
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- Name not classified · gub.uy
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- web-page · language not classified
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- Record last verified
- 2026-11-07
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- 2026-11-07
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The environment ministry's page on air-quality policy. Its section on the Intendencia says the city's Unidad Calidad de Aire has operated the air-quality network systematically since 2005, set up with equipment and technical support from the then Dinama; that Dinacea now supplies data from an automatic station at Av. Italia and Rafael Barradas; that weekly reports are published on the city's website and sent to the ministry; and that the data appear almost in real time on Montevidata and as open data in the city's and the national catalogues.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística — Anuario Estadístico Nacional 2025, table 1.3.2: air pollution by particulate matter and gases, Montevideo
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- 2026-11-07
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National statistics yearbook table sourced to the Intendencia's Servicio de Evaluación de la Calidad y Control Ambiental: annual averages and sample counts for black smoke, total suspended particles, PM10 and SO2 from 2010 to 2024, with footnotes that black smoke and SO2 were suspended at Tres Cruces in 2019, were not measured from March 2020 because of the health emergency, and that most later SO2 values fell below the method's quantification limit.
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Prensa Latina — Investigan calidad del aire en Montevideo por humo (11 Sep 2024)
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src-73b7ffb0fc65a29d- Publisher
- Name not classified · prensa-latina.cu
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2024-09-11
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- No source-level check date
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- 2026-11-07
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- 2026-11-07
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Wire report from Montevideo: a technical team of the Intendencia's environmental-quality service was assessing air quality after smoke from wildfires in Brazil and the region. Engineer Andrea De Nigris is quoted saying particulate matter rose at Montevideo's stations and that the city has a systematic network of nine stations; if the smoke exceeds the standard over 24 hours, the ministries of environment and public health are to be informed, while the health ministry keeps its advice to the public.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Red de Calidad de Aire: Montevideo's Air-Quality Monitoring Network” — Montevideo, Uruguay. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/montevideo-air-quality-network/ (last verified 2026-11-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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