Mercado Modelo is a central municipal fruit and vegetable wholesale market in of
Montevideo,
Uruguay. The area around the installations, which occupy several blocks of the
Mercado Modelo / Bolívar barrio, has also taken on the name of the market, hence the composite name of the entire barrio. The central building has an area of , to which more buildings were added in 1996 of an area of , while the overall area of the market is .