GEOGRAPHIC DATA

AREA: 10.551 KM2.
POPULATION: 67.000 HAB.
CAPITAL: ROCHA

- Centro: J. P. Ramírez 152. Tel. 2349.
- Méndez: F. Sánchez 198. Tel. 2604.
- Municipal: 19 de Abril 87. Tel. 2404.
- Plaza: 25 de Agosto 111. Tel. 4340.
- Trocadero: 25 de Agosto y 18 de Julio. Tel. 2267.

- Rutas del Sol: Ramírez 102. Tel. 3541.

This shore city is on Route 15, 24 km from Rocha City. It has a port and beaches with excellent facilities for Tourism: Hotels, Restaurants, Camps, Inns and Casino.

- National Phone Area Code: 0 479
- Police Station: Barrio Otero. Phone number: 6017/6098
- Prefecture: La Paloma Port: Phone number: 6009/6016
- Antel (Telecomunication Company): Solari Avenue no number. Phone number: 6311/6700. Fax: 6899
- Public Health: Phone number: 6060
- Rocha Municipality: Tourism Office: Solari Avenue. Phone number: 6088

HOTELS

- Alesna: Rambla 30 mts. (Anaconda). Tel. 6628.
- Anaconda: Playa Anaconda. Tel. 7007.
- Bahía: Del Navío s/n. Tel. 7085/6029.
- Barceló: Calles Urano y Júpiter. Tel. 6052.
- Cabo Santa María: Av. Solari s/n y Calle Sirio. Tel. 6004/6151/2. Casino Tel. 6092.
- Canopus: Av. Solari s/n. Tel. 6068.
- Cribe: Orión s/n. Tel. 7125.
- Embeleco: Calle la Virgen. 6108.
- La Casona: Calle Orión s/n. Tel. 7062.
- La Tuna: Neptuno s/n. Tel. 6083.
- Palma de Mallorca: La Aguada. Calle Tabaré s/n. Tel. 6739/6796.
- Parque: Tel. 6058.
- Perla del Este: Calle Adonis s/n. Tel. 6078.
- Porto Bello: Calle Las 3 Marías s/n. Tel. 6159.
- Teggiano: Av. Del Navío. Tel. 783804722967.
- Tirrenia: Av. Del Navío s/n. Tel. 6230.
- Trocadero: Calle Juno s/n. Tel. 7004/6007.
- Viola: Av. Solari s/n. Tel. 6020.
- Yeruti: Calle Grulla s/n. Tel. 6235.

RESTAURANTS

- Amarras: Av. Solari s/n y Av. del Navío.
- Arrecife: Av. Solari s/n.
- Bahía Chica: Av. del Navío.
- Bahía Grande: Playa Bahía Grande. Tel. 6864.
- Daniclau: Calles Aries y Orión. Tel. 4370.
- El Solar: Calles Acuario y Alinda. Tel. 2186.
- Los Mariscos: Av. Solari s/n y Calle Sirio. Tel. 6004/6151/2.
- Luar: La Pedrera. Tel. 6333.

BUS COMPANIES

- Rutas del Sol: Av. Solari. Tel. 6019.

CAMPS

- Parque Andresito (Municipal)
It is next to La Paloma entrance, on Route 15. Information and Reservations: Phone number: 6107; in Montevideo, 901 1384 and 902 0133. Credit cards can be used. It works from December to March. It is an abundantly wooded place with a firm sandy ground, eucalyptus woods, and ocean beach adequate for nautical sports and for good fishing. It is near the Casino. There are 150 square areas of 5 meters side for tents and houses-on-wheels, with barbecues, benches and tables, light and electrical sockets. There are general services with potable water, baths and hot water showers, washing places and sculleries. There is a parking place, restaurant, bar, market, laundry, carafe equipment to be rent, public phone and post office. There is a park with games for kids. In 400 meters there is a doctor, a service station and a mechanic.

- Anaconda Touristic Complex (Private)
It is next to La Paloma, in 100 meters. Information and Reservations: Phone number: 0 479 7007; in Montevideo: 336 5918. There are cottages made of Portland cement and tiles with 2 bedrooms, bath, full equipped kitchenette (stove, freezer, microwaves, kitchenware, etc) wood stove, TV, barbecue with table and water trough. There is housemaid service and breakfast.

- Uncle Con Cottages (Private)
They are located in the intersection of Del Navio and Solari avenues, 1000 meters from La Paloma town. Information and Reservation: Phone number: 0 479 6175. Fax: 6075. The cottages have Portland cement walls and straw roof with kitchen, dining room, refrigerator, bath, barbecue, etc. There is housemaid and security service. There are swimming pools and games for kids to share. The fishery is in 500 meters.

- Aloe Village Bungalows (Private)
Here is Serena Beach (Anaconda) It is next to La Paloma town. Information and Reservations: Phone/fax number: 0 479 7689. Cellular phone: 099 879076. There are Duplex Bungalows of 50 m2, with 2 bedrooms, living room, kitchen (refrigerator, kitchenware and oven), bath, TV, barbecue, garage, garden: There is a swimming pool, tennis and paddle grounds to be shared. During the summer station there is housemaid service, laundry, post office, medical service, tours, fishing and diving journeys. There are horses and bicycles to hire and a gymnasium.
- La Aguada (Municipal)
Its entrance is on Route 15. Information and Reservations: Phone number: 6239. Credit cards are accepted. It works the whole year. It is a bright and wooded place with a dense sandy ground, pine and eucalyptus woods and an oceanic beach, adequate for bathes, nautical sports and fishing. There are equipped cottages and 270 square places, 5 meters side for tents and houses-on-wheels with barbecue, tables, benches, light, electrical sockets and a parking area. There are general services offered with potable water, baths with hot water showers, washing places and sculleries. There is a market, a bar and a restaurant. You can have carafe service. In 2000 meters you will find a doctor, a service station and a mechanic. There is a bus stop, a social saloon and video games.

- La Palomita (Private)
It is on Route 15, in La Pedrera Resort. Information and Reservations: Phone number: 0 479 6489/6569. It works from December to the end of the Holy Week. It is a bright and wooded area with a dense sandy ground and pine and eucalyptus woods, sandy ocean beach where fishing is excellent. There are parcels with light for houses-on-wheels and tents, barbecues with benches and tables, electrical sockets and general services with potable water, baths and hot water showers, washing place and sculleries. There is a market, a bar and a restaurant. You will find carafe and service station in 5 km. There is a doctor and a bus stop, a social saloon and a park for kids.

- El Navio (Private) (The Ship)
It is in El Navio Avenue, 400 meters from Solari Beach. Information and Reservations: Phone number: 0 479 7289. It works during all the year. This is a wooded place with firm ground. The ocean beach is nor far from it and you will practice fishing and nautical sports. There are full-equipped cottages with barbecue and housemaid service. There are 180 parcels of 65 m2 with barbecue, tables, benches, light, electrical sockets, potable water, baths, hot water showers, sculleries and washing facilities. There is a market, a bar, a laundry, phone and a doctor. There are football and volleyball grounds, kid place, social saloon with TV and a swimming pool.

- Camping P.P. (Private)
It is on Route 10, km 226.500, between La Paloma and La Pedrera. Information and Reservations: Phone number: 0 479 7328. Fax: 401 4910 (Montevideo). Cellular Phone: 09 451904. It works from December to the end of the Holy Week. It is a bright and wooded place with a firm prairie ground. There are shadowy small areas. The beach is in 500 meters and there is a good fishery. There are tent-cottages with services for tents, with barbecue, tables and benches, light, electrical sockets, water
troughs, potable water, baths and hot water showers. There is a restaurant with homemade cuisine, bar, market, laundry and a social saloon with TV. There are football and volleyball grounds, a place for kids and saloon games. The public phone, the post office, the service station and the doctor are in 2000 meters.

- Camping Natura (Private)
It is at the entrance of the Aguas Dulces Resort. It works from December to the end of the Holy Week. Information and Reservations: Phone number: 0 475 2059 and 9349. It is a bright and wooded place with a firm ground and sandy ocean beach. There are equipped cottages and 70 parcels for tents and houses-on-wheels with barbecue, tables and benches, light, electrical sockets and security service. There are bathrooms and hot water showers, washing places and sculleries. There is a market, a bar and a restaurant with TV. There are football and volleyball grounds, a social saloon, public phones. You will fin in 1 kilometer an urban area with polices station, policlinic, restaurants and barbecue cuisine.

- La Esmeralda
La Esmeralda Resort has its entrance on Route 9 after Castillos. It works from December to the end of the Holy Week. Information and Reservations: Cellular Phone number: :099 618 602. It is wooded and sunny with a firm ground and an ocean beach with a good fishery. There are parcels for tents and for houses-on-wheels There are a variety of services offered.

- Camping Punta del Diablo (Private)
It is on Route 9, km 298, in Punta del Diablo Resort. Information and Reservations: 0 477 2060/9625. It works 12 months a year. It is wooded, sunny with a firm ground and an ocean beach in 2.5 km. There are full-equipped cottages and 175 parcels of 90 m2 with barbecue, tables, benches, light, electrical sockets, baths, hot water showers and washing places. There is an electrical generator and a security service. There is a bar, a restaurant with TV, a market, grounds for different sports and a place for kids. There is a public phone, and an urban area with police, restaurants, shellfishes, pizzas and barbecue cuisine. There is transport to the beach.

- Cabaña Beija Flor (Private)
It is in Punta del Diablo and Gral San Martín, near the sea. It works all the year. Information and reservations: Phone number: 0 477 2030. Phone number in Montevideo: 203 8542. There are equipped cottages with 1 or 2 bedrooms with kitchen, stove, bath, barbecue and garage. There are games for kids and security service. You will find all the services required, the beach and the fishery in 150 meters.

- Cabañas Santa Maria (Private)
They are in Punta del Diablo. Information and Reservations: Pone number: 0 477 2072. Phone number in Montevideo: 508 8424. Credit cards are accepted. There are full-equipped duplex cottages for 6 persons and cottages for 4 or 2 persons with kitchenette, baths, barbecue, etc. Other facilities and the swimming pool are to be shared.

- Cabañas Del Rey (Private)
They are in Punta del Diablo. Information and Reservations: Phone number: 0 477 2025. Phone number in Montevideo: 402 3757. They are equipped cottages for 4 or 6 persons, with bedroom, kitchenette, bath, barbecue, etc. It is a wooded place, and there are many services to be shared, swimming pool, paddle grounds, "bochas" and small golf course, a bar, a market, etc.

One is one of great attractive the tourist ones of our coast. - The Cabo Polonio in himself is a rocky formation that is introduced in the sea, surrounded of two beautiful beaches; to the northeast " the Skull " and to the south the " South Cove " or " Beach ". - The rocky prolongation towards the sea conforms the assembly of called islands of Towers, that constitute one of the more important world-wide reserves of wolves of a hair, or marine wolves, being the one that has more amount of individuals in all America. -

Its name must to the Spanish galleon that ran aground in those coasts per December of 1735. - The town originally formed by small villages of fishermen and old workers of the loberas drip jars, today totally suspended; at the moment they have been added opportunistic that has made constructions of houses " farms " in totally irregular form. - Another one of the attractiveness of the place is the denominated " movable dunes ".

The zone contains extensive sandy grounds in dune form enormous, that through the action of winds is modifying their form and place as if they had own life, being therefore one of the more important dune complexes of the country and the continent. - It was declared of national interest and National Monument to his dune system. From their heights matchless panoramas are contemplated.

The Light was a necessity due to the constant shipwrecks produced in the zone. It is so its construction dates from year 1881, and today its ascent is one of the traditional recreational activities of the Polonio. -

The movable rock is a curiosity. It is an enormous rock of than eight tons of weight located more near the Light. Its position is so particular that it is possible to move it with a foot in spite of his weight. - During the summer in the kioscos crafts done with jaws of shark, vertebrae of whales, eyeteeth of marine wolves, snails, ceramics, etc. are commercialized. -

The lovers of the fishing and the fruits of sea see beneficiaries by the goodness of this place. It is an excellent fishing boat of coast and boarding, and more than propitious for the diving. We cannot forget to us the spectacle of its dusk and the arrival of the boats of the artisan fishermen, who in addition will be able to provide of fish and fresh mariscos to us, that will make the delight of our palate. -

In order to arrive there is no route that leads towards there, reason why means part of its enchantment the fact that it is not possible to be acceded by car, not being allowed the entrance of motorized vehicles particular. Jeep or light trucks of companies is only acceded by authorized that leave from km 264 of Route 10 by an only authorized way

In Rocha the most impressive testimonies of the fight are conserved that the Empires of Spain and Portugal freed by the dominion of this part of the world. Sites of independentistas battles, are conserved today, the Forts of Santa Teresa and San Miguel. The Strength of Santa Teresa, constructed between 1762 and 1765 by Portuguese and Spaniards alternatively, is today important attractive an historical one of the department of Rocha. Its location of high strategic value during century XVIII, marked here a new point of conflict between the Iberian countries. It is in the century XX that the reconstruction of the bastion begins and the formation of the National Park that takes its name, visited year year, by thousands of tourists .

REVIEW HISTORICA OF" FORTALEZA DE SANTA TERESA"
1762. - October the Portuguese anticipating a new war with Spain decide to fortify the called point Small Castles, access to the passage of the Narrowness. The Cnel. Tomas Luis Osorio begins the works that are interrupted in 1763 by the advance of the Governor of Buenos Aires, Don Pedro de Cevallos who occupies San Miguel and Santa Teresa.
1763. - The works are continued by the Spaniards, the layout is the one of an irregular pentagon, with five bastions, their perimeter is of 642 meters.
1797. - The Veteran Body of Blandengues of the Border of Montevideo created in December of 1796, uses it as operational base to fulfill its mission to maintain the security and the order in the zone.
1811. - During the Eastern Revolution it is conquered by the Patriotic ones, falls soon in Portuguese hands when these invade the Eastern Band in aid of surrounded Montevideo.
1812. - The Patriotic ones return to recover the strength that is used to control the border with Portugal.
1816-25. - When invading the Portuguese the Eastern Province is under its dominion.
1825-28. - The Liberating Crossed one recovers part of its strategic value when beginning. The Patriotic troops to the control of Colonel Leonardo Olivera at dawn take this fortification from the 31 of December of 1825. With the taking of the guard of the Chuy the 1 of January of 1826 completes the conquest of the area.
1828. - October With the company/signature of the Preliminary Convention of Peace génesis of the Eastern State of Uruguay, the Strength is deactivated.
1842-51. - Is used sporadically it like border guard during the Great War. 1892. - The possibility of its restoration considers.
1923. - 10 of January, 1ª is created Commission of Restoration that worked until the 8 of April of the 1924.
1927. - 26 of December, are declared National Historical Monument by the law Nº. 8.172.
1928. - The Honorary commission of Restoration and Conservation of the Strength of Santa Teresa initiates the works of restoration.
1982. - Museum of historical Site, the exhibition recreates the aspect of a strength of century XVIII and the military evolution of the Spanish domination.

SERVICES OF THE PARK SANTA TERESA:
Registry of acampantes (Route 9, 302 km and Route 9 km 306)
Supermarkets (Capatacía and next to the spurt)
Slaughter and bakery, restaurant (Capatacía)
Service Medic and Odontológico de Urgencia
Cabins of rent (trunks, carpicaba6nas, alpine, of material)
Zones of camping
Baths with hot water internal Transport services
Comunicaciones (ANTEL)
Rent of horses, motos and bicycles
Harvesting of remainders (daily)
Firemen
Services Several

- Parque Nacional Santa Teresa.
(Property of the Ministry of Defense). By Route 9, km 302. Accesses in perfect state, reserve of fauna and flora. Service of omnibus. It works annually. Information and reserves: Tel. 0 477 2101/2. Fax. 2103. Luminous, hoisted with dense sandy ground. Mounts of eucalyptuses and pines. Watched sandy oceanic beach, fishes, nautical and diving. Cabins . With dormitory, it cooks, stove, bath, barbecuer. Services of laundry and mucama. Monitoring. 1,200 parcels with light and furnaces hygienic services with water treated about dam, showers with hot water, lavatories and sinks. Public telephone, mail, provicentro, cafeteria and restaurant. Local services several, medical, pharmacy, powerboat to 4 km Stopped of omnibus. Social hall, infantile park, services and special activities organized for mayores and minors.

The Fort of San Miguel, construction of century XVIII initiate by the Spaniards and reconstructed by the Portuguese, yergue between the mountain range with its outstanding pink granite structure. It captures the attention of the visitor with his pit and drawbridge. Next to him the Creole Museum and the stone walls of an old cemetery are located. Surrounding the Fort is the National Park of the same name, with an area protected of bathed that lodges important ecosystems.

REVIEW HISTORICA OF "FUERTE SAN MIGUEL"
1734. - Precarious Spanish Prefundación, constituted by a defensive wall and some farms of wood to resentment and mud, made by the Lieutenant of Dragoons Esteban of the Castle.
1737. - Portuguese foundation of the Mountain range from San Miguel to 35 meters of height in charge of the Brigardier Silva Páez. Construction of mud and wood to resentment, with time is perfected sustiuyendo progressively these elements with stone coined beginning from the wall towards the interior. - 1740-50. - It obtains his more or less definitive form: 300 meters of perimeter with four bastions. It was destined to protect the known mainland passage like the Narrowness.
1763. - Conquered by the Governor of Buenos Aires Don Pedro de Cevallos, it happens to depend on the Strength of Santa Teresa. It later shares the destiny of this strength acting like guard, until being deactivated in the beginning of our independence.
1927. - First attempt of restoration.
1933. - It begins to be recovered by the Honorary Commission of Restoration and Conservation of the Strength of Santa Teresa.
1937. - By law Nº. 9,718 of 29 of October of 1937 National Monument to the Fort of San Miguel and National Park to the area is declared that surrounds it, being left to the Honorary Commission of Restoration and Conservation of the Strength of Santa Teresa and San Miguel in charge of him. Unlike the Park of the Strength of Santa Teresa, one settled down that the Park of the Fort of San Miguel was a reserve of native flora.
1982. - Museum of Historical Site, at the moment exposes atmosphere reconstructions of century XVIII lodging in addition the Museum to Uniforme.

Annexed to the Fort of San Miguel:
Creole Museum. - Exhibition that is centered in the history of the transport to blood in Uruguay and the different aspects from the rural life of Uruguay. Indigenous Museum. - Starting off of the base of the Ethnographic collection donated by the Historian Horacio Arredondo, the evolution of the image of the native in its confrontation with the colonizador and the material aspects of its life appears.

It is on Route 9, km 314. This is a traditional Rocha Resort that offers important facilities for tourism.

- Phone Area Code: 0 476
- Main Police Station: Route 39. Phone number: 2955
- Sub-prefecture: Phone number: 2963
- Antel (Telecommunication Company): Phone number: 2083
- Rocha Municipality. Tourism Office (Kiosk). Phone number: 2011

HOTELS

- Hostería El Pescador: Pta. del Diablo. Tel. 2017.
- Gure Etxe: Tel. 2783.
- Rivamare y Costas del Mar: (Complejo) Ruta 9 km. 314. Tel. 2781/2. Tel. 203 0454/3010 Montevideo.
- Parador La Coronilla: Tel. 2883.
- Santa Teresa: Ruta 9, km. 293. Tel. 2006.

CAMPS

- La Coronilla.
It is on Route 9, km 314 in 300 meters. Reservations: Phone number: 0 474611/77. It works from December to March. It is bright and wooded and has a dense sandy ground with an oceanic beach where nautical sports and fishing can be practiced. There is a wood of pines, cottages and areas with light, barbecue, electrical sockets, benches and tables. There are games and sportive grounds. You will have general services with semi-emergent water, baths and hot water showers, washing places and sculleries. There is a market and a restaurant. Carafe service, service station and medical doctor can be found in 2000 meters.

This city is 340 km from Montevideo and 134 km from Rocha, in the Brazilian frontier.

- National Phone Area Code 0 474
- Main police station: 2024
- Antel: Phone number: 2515/3198. Fax: 2799.
- Hospital: Phone number: 3050/2028.

HOTELS

- Alerces: Lag. Castillos s/n. Tel. 2260.
- Iramar: Calles Numancia y Brasil s/n. Tel. 2140.
- Nuevo Plaza: Av. Artigas. Tel. 2309.
- Petrobalt: Calles R. San Luis y Brasil. Tel. 2055.
- Brandy's: Gral. Artigas 323.
- El Mesón de la Plaza: Gral. Artigas y Arachanes.
- Jesús: Av. Brasil 630.
- La Tuba: Av. Brasil 675.
- Maldonado: Av. Brasil 605.
- Michel: Gral. Artigas 112.

CAMPS

- La Barra (Private)
It is on Route 9, km 331, going way to La Barra.. Information and Reservations: Phone number: 0 472 1611/44 in Chuy; 902 2662 in Montevideo. It works from December to the end of the Tourism Week. It is a really wooded place with a dense sandy ground, woods of pines and of eucalyptus and a sandy ocean beach good for fishing and for nautical sports. There are beautiful equipped cottages, parcels with barbecue, tables and benches, light, electrical sockets, semi-emergent water, baths, hot water showers, sculleries and washing places. General services are offered, a public phone, a market, a restaurant, a laundry. The doctor, the service station, the mechanic and the post office are found in 10 km. The Casino and the shops are found in 13 km. There is a bus stop, a social saloon and a place for children.

- Camping Chuy (Private)
It is on Route 9, km 331, 7 km going the way to La Barra.
Information and Reservations: Phone number: 0 474 2425. In Montevideo, phone number: 900 6122. It is a sunny wooded place with a dense sandy ground, pinewoods and ocean beach ideal for fishing and for nautical sports. You will be lodged in cottages, bungalows, houses-on-wheels, tent-cottages. There are 172 parcels with barbecues, tables, benches, light, electrical sockets, potable water, baths, hot water showers, washing places and sculleries. There is a market, a restaurant, a laundry and a parking place. You will have general services, phone in 300 meters, service station and mechanic in 10 km. You may go shopping or get to the Casino in 12 km. The doctor is also in 12 km. There a bus stop, a social saloon, video games, in-door hot spring swimming pool, tennis ground and children Park.

AGRO TOURISM

- Fortin de San Miguel
It is in 18 de Julio Town. Information and Reservation: Phone number: 0 474 2207. In Montevideo, phone number: 900 5173 and 099 631547. There is an inn and a restaurant. The fort has 18 rooms. You will be able to made horse rides and excursions to enjoy this zone. There is a full board.

- Barra Grande
It is on Route 9, km 249. Information and Reservations: phone number: 0 475 9595. You will visit "Ombú" woods, the "Ceibal" and Castillos Lagoon with guides to better understand. Many other services will be found in La Choza.

- Campamento "Don Bosco".
Information and Reservations: phone number: 0 477 2094. Fax: 3059545 and cellular phone: 099 632401. You will entry by land or using the "barge". The beach is on the Black Lagoon shore. Guided journeys. Varied services.

- Guardia del Monte
It is on Route 9, km 261.500, 12 km from Castillos, 140 km from Punta del Este. Information and Reservations: phone number: 916 301/12/915 7308 (Montevideo). This is a historical Ranch with an excellent restaurant service. There is no lodging, so you will be able to make a day journey with supper and tea service. It is next to Castillos Lagoon. You may have carriage and horse rides. It is possible to fish in the lagoon waters.

- Monte Grande
Information and Reservations: It is on Route 10, km 267, on Castillos Lagoon. There will be horse rides, fishing and visits to the "Ombú" wood.

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It is on Route 13, km 263. Information and Reservations: phone number: 0 475 9236. Scheduled visits. Walks.

- Las Palmeras
It is in Sarandí de los Amarales, on Route 13, km 250. Information and Reservations: phone number: 0 475 9236. You will have horse rides, promenades, guided walks.

- Sierra de los Pensadores.
It is 20 km from Castillos, on "camino de Indio" and Route 13. Information and Reservations: phone number: 0 474 2125 and 0 470 5004. There are lodging facilities. You will have horse rides, promenades; visits to the aboriginal Museum and "pulperia"

- Palma Sola
It is on Route 15, near Rocha. The Ranch is in Alferez, 28 km from Lascano, 240 km from Montevideo. Information and Reservations: phone number: 916 3011/12/915 7308 (Montevideo). Services: There a straw shed, swimming pool, dairy, horse rides, beach, fishing and the Rocha swamps. Guided journey to Grutas de Salamanca, India Muerta dike and to Cabo Polonio. Lodging facilities: 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Charges: Full board, activities and wine with meals U$S 80/person/day. Children under 12 years old, have 50% off and under 3 are free of charge. You will have home made cuisine and an excellent personal attention.

- Cerro del Indio
It is in Potrero Grande on Route 14,km 493. Information: 0474 2964. Promenades.

- Los Caligualos
It is on Camino de la Pantanosa, on Route 109, 10 km from Rocha and 210 km from Montevideo. Information and Reservations: Phone number: 916 30111/12/915 7308 (Montevideo). The sierras of Rocha surround this place. Services offered: walks to the wood, tractor ride, horse rides to the hill and visits to Rocha City. There are sandy brook sides. Rural tasks. Few persons can be lodged. There is full board.

- La Barrita
It is 12 km from Villa Cebollatí and 360 km from Montevideo. Information and Reservations: Phone number: 916 3011/12/915 7308. Services: launching Cebollatí River, horseback rides and visits to the rice cultivation areas. Lodging facilities: 5 bedrooms and 3 baths. Full board. Ecologic journeys just for pleasure or to have adventure can be done.

- Rocha Lagoon
It is 5 km from La Paloma. You can get there all through the ocean coast or by route at the intersection of Route 15 and Route 10. The time of the shrimp capture offers an impressing spectacle (that is from the end of February to the end of March). This is a fishing zone, where boating can be performed and different birds can be watched (specially, black neck swans, ducks, gulls, storks and flamingoes).

- Black Lagoon
It is on Route 9, in the opposite side of Santa Teresa entrance.
Barge promenades, with entrance to the "Potrerillo" flora and fauna reserve as well as to the "Don Bosco" vacation colony. Phone number: 0 472 4826 and 3899.

- Castillos Lagoon
The exuberant swamps the abundant birds and land animals in this lagoon surrounded by the impressing woods of "ombúes, tall grass ground and large "ceibo" woods, can be visited through the Valizas Brook, Guardia del Monte Ranch and through the ecologic reserve of Barra Grande. The latter as well as the "ombúes" woods have flora, fauna, stories and habits specialized guides for a better understanding.
- "Ombúes" Woods
These typical American trees form three big groups on the Castillos Lagoon shore. You can enter the Olivera private wood by the bridge over the Valizas Brook on Route 10 and from the opposite point you can enter the Mystery Wood. The third one is on the lagoon northern point, near Castillos and the access is on Route 9, through the Barra Grande ecologic reserve.

- Lagoon Ecologic Reserve (Private)
You will get there from Montevideo, by Route 9 and from Castillos, by Route 16, going 12 km until Aguas Dulces, passing through 2 km of woods and dunes. It is 10 km from Cabo Polonio. It works all the year. Information and Reservations: phone number: 0 475 2118. Cellular phone: 099 602410.
The UNESCO declared this place as the Biosphere Reserve. There are straw roofed cottages for 4 or 6 persons with wood stove, kitchenette, bathrooms with hot water and electrical generator. There are shared rooms and small double rooms. There is a natural lagoon (25 hectares with little sea wolves, capybaras, drop hammers and a great variety of fishes) a spring, a floating inn on the lagoon water over a tender. You will be able to ride horses to visit virgin beaches, to watch fauna (sea wolves, penguins, dolphins, small sharks, "siris", snails, "aves gragata", albatross, gulls, foxes, American ostriches, "aperea", fresh water turtles, ruffed grouses, river plate bird, storks, orange tree birds, black neck swans, country owl, etc) There is a raft, water-tricycles, swift-sailing, fishing competitions, oars, sand board, trekking, journeys to Cabo Polonio and to the Ombues Woods and to SANTA Teresa Fortress, etc. There is a dining room (shrimps, fresh local fish, lamb, breakfast with fruits, honey and beaten eggs). You may have half board or a full board.