URO, Vehículos Especiales, S.A. (UROVESA) is a Spanish heavy vehicle manufacturer based in

Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, simply Santiago, or Compostela, in the province of Province of A Coruña, A Coruña, is the capital of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city ...

, Galicia. It is best known for the production of the

URO VAMTAC The URO VAMTAC () is a Spanish four-wheel drive military vehicle manufactured by UROVESA. Externally it is similar in appearance and design to the Humvee of the United States Military due to similar requirements. More than 2,000 of the vehicles hav ...

, a

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-like

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motor vehicle, and URO trucks.

History

The company was founded in 1981 by a group of former employees of IPV. Since 1984, they are an official supplier to the

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- who currently have over 1,000 URO vehicles. In 1991 the subsidiary UROMAC was created, based in

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manufactures

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and

dump trucks A dump truck, known also as a dumping truck, dump lorry or dumper lorry or a dumper for short, is used for transporting materials (such as dirt, gravel, or demolition waste) for construction as well as coal. A typical dump truck is equipped wi ...

. The end of the first decade of the 21st century was for UROVESA a period of intense decline in its business volume, due to the drop in public budgets coupled with a delay in the call for tenders for the acquisitions of the different customers. UROVESA currently supplies its products to more than twenty-five countries on five continents, making it an international benchmark in the sector.

Models

File:Uro_Pesoz.jpg, URO rural firefighting truck in North Spain File:URO VAMTAC with Mistral missile.jpg, An

File:URO M3-24.14 UME.JPG, URO M3-24.14 of the

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References

External links

UROVESA Official site

UROMAC Official site
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