Politically located in the Municipality CH, it is an affluent neighborhood, with a high population density and a large number of high-rise apartment buildings.

[3] The area is bounded by Artigas Boulevard, the Rambla to the south and west, Sarmiento Avenue to the north, and Calle Juan María Pérez to the east and northeast.

[10] Despite being an area close to the central business district of the city, for much of the first half of the 20th century it was sparsely populated, since it was associated with poor living conditions due to the existence of a large detention center.

[11][13] In the western zone is the Parque Rodó and the Club de Golf del Uruguay founded in 1922, on the land where a hippodrome operated in the last decades of the 19th century.

[18] On Artigas Boulevard stands a neoclassical palace that houses the headquarters of Parva Domus, a civil, recreational and cultural association created in 1878, which for entertainment purposes proclaims itself as a micronational republic.