[1] For traveling within South America (except the Guyanas, Suriname, and European dependencies), Uruguayans do not need to use a passport, as they may use their ID card.
Naturalised Uruguayan citizens "legal citizens" are currently facing challenges when travelling internationally as their Uruguayan passport and ID card will show country of birth as "nationality" causing challenges when travelling.
[citation needed] Visa requirements for holders of normal passports traveling for tourist purposes: Uruguay is a full member of Mercosur.
As such, its citizens enjoy unlimited access to any of the other full members (Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay) and associated members (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) with the right to residence and work, with no requirement other than nationality.
2 Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Russia and the partially recognised republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia each span the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia.