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Red de Calidad de Aire: Montevideo's Air-Quality Monitoring Network

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 13 claims and 3 source dossiers.

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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-bb6687bc86c7cdba quantitative
has run a systematic air-quality network since 2005
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The environment ministry says the Intendencia's air-quality unit has operated the network systematically since 2005.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Ministerio de Ambiente — Invertir en aire limpio (air-quality policy page)
Claim 2 clm-d076fb35868ff475 descriptive
set up with equipment and technical support from the national environment directorate
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The ministry says the then Dinama contributed equipment and technical support when the network was set up.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Ministerio de Ambiente — Invertir en aire limpio (air-quality policy page)
Claim 3 clm-bdb5816b49ce0a77 descriptive
still feeds in data from one automatic station on Avenida Italia
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The ministry says Dinacea supplies the network with data from an automatic station at Av. Italia and Rafael Barradas.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Ministerio de Ambiente — Invertir en aire limpio (air-quality policy page)
Claim 4 clm-21802b5d689e3443 descriptive
Weekly reports go on the city's website and to the Ministry of Environment
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The ministry says weekly reports are prepared from the network's data, published on the Intendencia's website and sent to the ministry and other parties.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Ministerio de Ambiente — Invertir en aire limpio (air-quality policy page)
Claim 5 clm-f2602bc33fcf4c8d descriptive
readings appear almost in real time on the Montevidata portal
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The ministry says the data are published practically in real time on the Montevidata portal.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Ministerio de Ambiente — Invertir en aire limpio (air-quality policy page)
Claim 6 clm-cf924664b1516f44 descriptive
the data are also published in the city's and the national open-data catalogues
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The ministry says the data are also published in open-data format in Montevideo's open-data portal and in the national open-data catalogue.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Ministerio de Ambiente — Invertir en aire limpio (air-quality policy page)
Claim 7 clm-e05e98329668c330 quantitative
reprints the network's annual averages for black smoke, total suspended particles, PM10 and sulphur dioxide
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The yearbook table gives annual averages and sample counts for black smoke, total suspended particles, PM10 and SO2, sourced to the Intendencia's environmental-quality service.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Instituto Nacional de Estadística — Anuario Estadístico Nacional 2025, table 1.3.2: air pollution by particulate matter and gases, Montevideo
Claim 8 clm-3585bc721d92c904 quantitative
black smoke and SO2 were not measured from March 2020 because of the health emergency
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
A footnote to the table says there are no black-smoke or SO2 data from March 2020 because of the health emergency, and that PM10 and TSP sampling fell.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Instituto Nacional de Estadística — Anuario Estadístico Nacional 2025, table 1.3.2: air pollution by particulate matter and gases, Montevideo
Claim 9 clm-0598b8f637149085 descriptive
the city's air-quality engineer said particulate matter had risen at Montevideo's stations
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Engineer Andrea De Nigris of the Intendencia's environmental-quality service is quoted saying particulate matter rose at Montevideo's stations during the September 2024 smoke.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Prensa Latina — Investigan calidad del aire en Montevideo por humo (11 Sep 2024)
Claim 10 clm-3dee364d17b4d58d descriptive
the network has nine stations
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
De Nigris is quoted saying the city has a systematic environmental-quality network of nine stations.
Caveat
The count is the engineer's. The network combines manual and automatic stations, and its documents group them differently, so station totals vary between sources.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Prensa Latina — Investigan calidad del aire en Montevideo por humo (11 Sep 2024)
Claim 11 clm-4b431d3ec3ed73b6 quantitative
a 24-hour exceedance of the standard would be reported to the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Public Health
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The report says that if smoke exceeds the standard over 24 hours, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Public Health will be informed.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Prensa Latina — Investigan calidad del aire en Montevideo por humo (11 Sep 2024)
Claim 12 clm-e38a9b3396256104 descriptive
the health ministry's advice to residents ran separately
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The report says the health ministry maintained its own advice to the population on expected symptoms and steps to take.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Prensa Latina — Investigan calidad del aire en Montevideo por humo (11 Sep 2024)
Claim 13 clm-3138db7bd4ec7979 descriptive
nothing in the sources makes them a trigger
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Neither the ministry's description of the network nor the 2024 report names a measure that a reading sets off; the stated consequences are publication and notification of the ministries. No single passage states an absence, so there is no locator.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Ministerio de Ambiente — Invertir en aire limpio (air-quality policy page)
  2. Prensa Latina — Investigan calidad del aire en Montevideo por humo (11 Sep 2024)

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

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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.
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

3 source dossiers

Ministerio de Ambiente — Invertir en aire limpio (air-quality policy page) gub.uy · 7 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-67125b66d5bd0e03
Publisher
Name not classified · gub.uy
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-07
Dossier created
2026-11-07
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

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.

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Claims linked
Instituto Nacional de Estadística — Anuario Estadístico Nacional 2025, table 1.3.2: air pollution by particulate matter and gases, Montevideo gub.uy · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-b9ff4b9dc1aaff85
Publisher
Name not classified · gub.uy
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-07
Dossier created
2026-11-07
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

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.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Prensa Latina — Investigan calidad del aire en Montevideo por humo (11 Sep 2024) prensa-latina.cu · 5 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-73b7ffb0fc65a29d
Publisher
Name not classified · prensa-latina.cu
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-09-11
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-07
Dossier created
2026-11-07
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

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.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this file
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.