Uruguay has grilled about twelve metric tons of beef totaling 1,500 meters in length setting a new sturdy world record.

Over one thousand volunteer cooks grilled 12 metric tons of beef and about 20,000 spectators cheered when a Guinness judge announced that the world record has been broken.

"I'm very proud to be Uruguayan. We have the best beef and now we have the world's biggest barbecue," said one of the cooks.

"Uruguay is very small, it's not known for other events so we have to use these kinds of gimmicks so people find out where Uruguay is and what it has to offer," said Fernando Perez Abella, vice president of the National Meats Institute, or INAC in Spanish.

Uruguay as a major cattle producer earned $817 million from beef exports last year.

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