Is urban center of a region livestock and agriculture , and serves commercial and transforming these products through the flour and meat industry, principally. It has several supermarkets: Tata, Giordano, Multiahorro, etc.
The passage of Yi river by two bridges , has been essential to this city, which became traditional communications knot in the center of the country. On the right bank of the Yi population has grown, Santa Bernardina , stimulated by the creation of an alternative airport at Carrasco International Airport (the Santa Bernardina International Airport )
