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Descubrí, explorá y maravillate con los encantos de Cabo Polonio y la región. |
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INTERACTIVE MAP INCLUDING PLACES TO VISIT INSIDE ROCHA
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 | | This resort, with its small ranches, houses and cabins, is located on a beach of fine sand that spreads beyond your sight. Those who enjoy walking along the seashore will find innumerable signs of shipwrecks which occurred on this area. | Location :
Located on km 260 of Route 10, only 9 km away from Castillos City (through Route 16) |
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| Bosque de Ombúes - Monte Grande | |
 | | You go by boat from the pier at Valizas stream, on Route 10, for 10 to 20 minutes (5 km) until you reach "Boca de la Laguna", where the river starts. There is an organized tour around both state and private areas of the
"Bosque de Ombúes" (Ombu woods). | Location :
At km 267 on Route 10, between La Paloma and Aguas Dulces, on the bridge over Valizas stream you can find the pier and the port for the boats to Monte Grande. |
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| Centro de Tortugas Marinas del Uruguay | |
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 | | Chuy is mainly a place to go shopping. It was born in the imaginary line that separates Uruguay from Brazil. It is located in the corridor that the Merín Lagoon and the Atlantic Ocean form, which links the department of Rocha with the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
The main spot is the Uruguay-Brazil International Avenue. A large variety of shops can be found on the Brazilian side, especially supermarkets. On the opposite side of the avenue, the Uruguayan commercial system called Free Shop, consisting of the selling of tax-free goods, has acquired great importance. A great number of these kinds of shops are a real attraction, especially for the quality offers, for the convenient prices and for the attention the client receives.
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It is Uruguay-Brazil border, located on km 345 of Route 9. |
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| Fortaleza de Santa Teresa | |
 | | This fortress is Uruguay’s most monumental vestige of the past. The Portuguese started to build this fortress in 1762 and some years later the Spaniards finally took it by assault and finished the construction. Viceroy Pedro de Ceballos decided to build a resistant pentagonal-shaped (although not regular) fortress, strategically oriented for military purposes, in that conflictive frontier area where the big empires threatened each other. The fortress witnessed confrontations between Spanish and Portuguese, Spanish and English, Spanish and natives, and, once Uruguay was born as a country, it also played its role during the civil wars. It was precisely in this place that Oribe’s forces sheltered during the Great War. The fortress was finally abandoned, pillaged and left at the mercy of snakes and spiders. Even the sand of the surroundings almost completely covered it. In 1928 the enterprising archaeologist Horacio Arredondo started the restore work. This visionary man also afforested the area, so as to prevent the sand from swallowing such a treasure once more. The walls are made of a double-layer of stone, joined by stirrups and filled with soil and rubble, in order to resist shots and vibrations. Inside the reddish-orange fortress there are some buildings which are definitely worth visiting: an arsenal, a chapel, a museum with models of the different forts and fortresses in Uruguay, a collection of weapons, and even some areas recreating the soldiers’ kitchen with their menu included. | Location :
It is located inside Santa Teresa National Park, just a few meters away from Route 9, on the km 304 (second entrance to Santa Teresa National Park). |
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 | | The Fort of San Miguel was built by de Spaniards in the year 1734. At the beginning it was a precarious construction, and was later on rebuilt by the Portuguese. It is surrounded by a moat which can be crossed through the drawbridge. Visiting the museum lets you imagine the fort’s inhabitants, with the native woodland all around and the sight of the ocean that vanishes in the horizon. The Sierra of San Miguel, which is located on Route 19 around 10 km away from Chuy’s main avenue, is mainly inhabited by a huge variety of animals and vegetation. There are two spots of special tourist interest in this place: the path that ascends to the Cerro Picudo and the one that descends, which leads to the bank of San Miguel steam that flows into the Merín Lagoon. All around this area several mounds around 2500 years old can be found, most of them no taller than 3 meters. Some of them have human remains that are believed to have belonged to the “arachanes”, a group of natives who used to live in this area. | Location :
After a while, Chuy's main avenue becomes Route 19. If you follow this route for about 10 km, you will reach the Fort of San Miguel. |
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| La Barra Grande - Bosque de Ombúes | |
 | | You can enjoy a 2600-meter long tour accompanied by specially prepared guides who help you recognize the different flora and fauna species that inhabit this place. Along the tour you can discover the magnificent "Bosque de Ombúes" (Ombu woods), with its centenary specimens, cross the hanging bridge over the Castillos steam, go right inside the kapok tree woods and observe, white herons, ravens, black-necked swans and "carpinchos". The whole tour takes two hours on foot of one hour by tractor or jeep. | Location :
On km 249 of Route 9, and then 1 km along a country road. |
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Open from 9 am to 8 pm.
Tels: 4470 5327 o 099050631
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 | | Set on the Atlantic Ocean in Cape Santa María, La Paloma turns out to be a main tourist spot for its 20 km of beautiful beaches. If you observe both bays from a high place (from the lighthouse you have a great sight), you will note that they have the shape of a dove. This is what is thought to have inspired those who gave this resort a name (“paloma” means dove in Spanish). However, it is also believed that this name is due to one of the islands that stand in front of La Paloma, that due to the waves it appeared to those who watched from the shore to have the shape of a dove. After the port was constructed, this island become a peninsula the way we know it nowadays and this visual effect was lost. The building of the lighthouse, after the multiple shipwrecks that occurred in this area, gave birth to this place’s population. | Location :
Head Route 9 until you get to Rocha City, and then either take Route 15 until La Paloma or else take Route 9 to Castillos, then Route 16 until Route 10, and then Route 10 until Route 15 that leads you to La Paloma. |
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 | | In Pedrera, this little town lying on a cliff, everything is peaceful, except the ocean. Its old quarter evidences more than a century’s history: the church’s coral-colored bell was unburied from the bottom of the ocean; the porthole in one house and the veranda in another one are clear vestiges of antique shipwrecks. It is said that in this place clocks and mirrors are useless (you eat when you are hungry and go anywhere dressed the way you like). La Pedrera is vacations from noise and crowds. Time to read a good book, listen to jazz at the Club Social, have a beer, sit on the Rambla to watch the sea, eat fish and fresh seafood, or lamb, go surfing, disguise and parade in “Carnaval”, go fishing, walk for hours along an almost deserted beach, watch whales and fill your eyes with blue and green hues. | Location :
On Route 10, 240 km away from Montevideo, 110 km from Punta del Este and just 10 from La Paloma. |
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 | | The Laguna Negra, also called "the Deaths’ Lagoon" for its proximity to the mounds where indigenous burials took place, is even larger than the "Laguna de Castillos" and is also surrounded by native woods, palm groves, and marshlands, with their varied amount of species of birds and mammals. Close to the Laguna Negra you can see some old stony corrals held by centenary Butiá palm trees. From the Laguna Negra, you can take a boat to the Biological Station "Potrerillo"in Santa Teresa National Park, a protected area where it is possible to observe nature in its most virgin state. | Location :
Entrance Route 9, at km 302 (opposite Santa Teresa National Park’s first entrance |
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Tel. 44724826 y 44723899
Activities: Tours by boat ("Barcaza") with access to the flora an fauna reserve at the "Potrerillo" and also to "Don Bosco" summercamp.
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| | Santa Teresa National Park spreads over 3000 hectares and has over 2 million trees. Although Rocha is the land of "montes indígenas" (woods of indigenous trees), Santa Teresa was afforested with not only Uruguayan but also exotic flora.
The result is a spectacular, clean and well-maintained park, full of vegetation planted with great sense of esthetic. The most important rose garden of the country can be found in Santa Teresa, with over 330 different species of roses.
Campers will find all the facilities in Santa Teresa, from doctor and dentist to bakery and a "parrillada" (typical restaurant). The management of the Park is done with special care for the natural environment, and even organizes educative talks on how to camp there making no harm to nature. There are over 60 km of paths to go walking inside the park. Any of the four big beaches, delimited by strange rocky outcrops where to go fishing, are splendid.
Besides the fortress, other interesting constructions such as the "Capatacía", the "Sombráculo" (shadow-house), the greenhouse, the aviary and even a very well-organized museum can be found in Santa Teresa National Park. This museum clearly explains historian Arredondo’s formidable work in recovering Rocha’s fortifications for humanity.
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Route 9, km 302 |
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 | | Punta del Diablo nace como pueblo de pescadores. Se recorta sobre la costa y ofrece sus espectaculares playas. Paisaje agreste donde una simple caminata abre vistas inolvidables del mar. | Location :
A la altura del Km. 298 de la Ruta 9 se encuentra la entrada a Punta del Diablo. Se toma hacia el mar y se recorre 5 kmts. hasta la costa. |
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