on 6th Avenue in Spring Street Park, New York; in Plaza Artigas Salto, Uruguay; in Caracas, Venezuela; in Athens, Greece; in Mexico City; in Newark, New Jersey; in Quito, Ecuador as well as in the town centre of Montevideo, Minnesota and in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Asunción, Paraguay has a statue of Artigas in its Plaza Uruguay, and the Calle Sebastián Gaboto was renamed the Avenida Artigas in his honor in 1926. An imposing monument of the Uruguayan caudillo stands in Buenos Aires' Recoleta district on the Avenida Libertador, the work of Uruguayan sculptor Juan José Zorrilla de San Martín and architect Alejandro Bustillo. A bust of José Gervasio Artigas can be also found at Luis Muñoz Rivera Park in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Additionally, an extinct giant rodent genus, whose fossils were first found in San José Department, was named Josephoartigasia after José Artigas. There is also a monument and square dedicated to Artigas in Rome, in the Villa Borghese park, Italy. There is a monument in honor of José Artigas in Bucharest, Romania. There is a monument in honor of José Artigas in Sofia, Bulgaria. Jose Artigas Marg is a street named in honor of Jose Artigas in New Delhi, India. There is an order of Merit, the Order of Military Merit of the Companions of Artigas, founded in 1980. There is one in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States April 19, 2013 See also Artiguism Flag of Artigas Order of Military Merit of the Companions of Artigas#Historical reference Statues of the Liberators Footnotes Further reading Félix Luna, José Artigas: El caudillo revolucionario (José Artigas: The Revolutionary Leader). Buenos Aires: Planeta de Agostini, 2009. Tyson Reeder, "'Sovereign Lords' and 'Dependent Administrators': Artigan Privateers, Atlantic Borderwaters, and State Building in the Early Nineteenth Century," Journal of American History, vol. 103, no. 2 (September 2016), pp. 323–346. External links Biblioteca Artiguista Pictures of the Artigas Mausoleum in Montevideo Uruguay todobuenosaires.com People of the Spanish American wars of independence Uruguayan generals Uruguayan politicians 1764 births 1850 deaths Colonial Uruguay People from Montevideo Argentine generals Uruguayan cattlemen Uruguayan people of Argentine descent Uruguayan people of Spanish descent Uruguayan people of Canarian descent Uruguayan prisoners of war Uruguayan exiles Uruguayan expatriates in Paraguay Uruguayan expatriates in Spain Paraguayan people of Uruguayan descent 19th-century Uruguayan people Uruguayan independence activists