abstract:Banda Oriental, or more fully Banda Oriental del Uruguay (sometimes rendered in English as "Eastern Bank" or "Eastern Strip"), was the name of the South American territories east of the Uruguay River and north of Río de la Plata, coinciding approximately with the modern nation of Uruguay, the modern Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul and some parts of Santa Catarina. It was the easternmost stripe of land of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.