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A country at cycling pace.

Pedaleando Uruguay

Uruguay, lived by bike.

Uruguay is small enough to cross by bike in a few days, and slow enough to be worth it. This is the English edition of Pedaleando Uruguay — a guide for anyone thinking of riding here, and a way of reading the country at the pace of a bicycle. Start with how to arrive; stay for where the riding takes you.

Illustration: a tree-lined city street, striped traffic drums and a sign along its left edge, a bus and a car driving on the right.
Uruguay by bikeMontevideo prepares Avenida Rondeau for the first stretch of its planned cycleway to the CerroHalf of Rondeau's roadway is coned off for the first stretch of the west-side cycleway; no route yet beyond Jujuy.22 · OCT · 2026
Art-deco poster illustration: children playing in a city street, two running and two on bicycles, with tall buildings and a tree behind.
Uruguay by bikeWhen streets belonged to children
Art-deco illustration: a cyclist walks a bike at the foot of a lighthouse, under beams of gold and blue light.
RoutesUruguay's coastal lighthouses
Portrait of Pedro, recoloured into the Pedaleando Uruguay palette.
CommunityThe man with the infinity sign
Art-deco illustration of the Colonia del Sacramento lighthouse and sailboats on the Río de la Plata.
RoutesColonia's historic quarter

Calendar

Coming up, by bike

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How a small country takes to the bicycle

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Art-deco poster illustration: a black-framed bicycle at centre, a large red Greek cross to its left, a tall building above, and vertical bands of blue, cream and ochre.
Uruguay by bikeCycling and public health in Uruguay
Art-deco poster illustration: a tram, a trolleybus and two buses in a row, with lines converging toward the centre, in front of a city of stepped towers and a large sun.
Uruguay by bikeTram, trolleybus, bus: the succession
Art-deco poster illustration: three cyclists in suits and caps ride in single file along a street of coloured stripes, past a money bag marked with a $ sign, with city towers rising at right.
Uruguay by bikeThe economics of bike lanes
Art-deco poster illustration: a rider on an electric scooter heads down a street toward a skyline of towers and domes.
Uruguay by bikeUruguay's departments approve a common e-scooter rule
Map of Uruguay with the places mentioned across Pedaleando Uruguay, grouped by department
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Places

Every place, on one map

The places our stories visit, pinned one by one.

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Routes

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Cycling routes across Uruguay, at a bike's pace.

Art-deco illustration of a ferry crossing the delta toward Carmelo, a bicycle aboard.
RoutesThe ferry from Tigre: Carmelo and Uruguay's quiet westA three-hour delta crossing, a bike on deck, and Uruguay's quietest corner waiting at Carmelo.
Illustration: two cyclists on a coastal road above big Atlantic waves, a surfer riding a wave in the distance.
RoutesMontevideo to Cabo Polonio: the Atlantic coast in stages325 kilometres from Montevideo to Cabo Polonio in five flat, forgiving stages, ending at a car-free village in the dunes.

Full directory

Who's cycled Uruguay

Crossing Uruguay by bike is not a new idea: someone rode through in 1991 with a hip pack for all their luggage, and someone else uploaded their journal last week.

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Illustration: a cyclist on the Atlantic coast of Uruguay at dawn. 1920s poster style.
CommunityThe Atlantic coast
Illustration: a cyclist arriving by ferry on the Río de la Plata. 1920s poster style.
CommunityThe west
Illustration: a cyclist on an unpaved road through golden hills in the Uruguayan interior. 1920s poster style.
CommunityThe interior

Heritage & sightseeing

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Art-deco poster illustration: a bulldozer on a slope below a row of white houses, with the sea and a large sun behind.
Uruguay by bikeBarrio Sur's two evictions: what Montevideo's seafront was built overA poor waterfront quarter razed for a promenade between 1923 and 1935; the tenements at the heart of candombe emptied by a dictatorship in 1978–79. The history under Barrio Sur's stretch of the rambla, and how to find it by bike.
An art-deco illustration looking down Sarandí toward a church's twin towers, past a tram on the rails and figures in period dress crossing the foreground.
Uruguay by bikeSarandí before the pedestrian street: a century of traffic, and the eighteen-year fight that ended itFour stages, one merchant reversal, eighteen years — and before all that, a century of trams and bumper-to-bumper cars. The album of the "before."
Art-deco illustration: a three-funnel ocean liner and sailboats in the port of Montevideo, with the Ciudad Vieja skyline behind, under a sky of geometric rays.
Uruguay by bikeA French contract, a lead box under a breakwater, and the port that made modern MontevideoMontevideo spent 1901–1909 rebuilding its bay in stone and concrete — and inaugurated the result on a morning marked by a shipwreck at the new entrance. The archive photographed all of it.

Recent stories

Getting to Uruguay with a bike — and ready to ride

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Illustration: biplane over the Río de la Plata in art-deco composition. 1920s poster style.
Plan your tripFlying to Uruguay with a bikeWhich airport, which routes, and the one thing to research before you book — how each airline treats a boxed bike.
Illustration: passenger ferry crossing the Río de la Plata under a golden dawn. 1920s poster style.
Plan your tripBy ferry to Uruguay with a bikeCrossing the Río de la Plata from Buenos Aires — the routes, how the companies handle a bike, and why customs makes this the gentlest way in.
Illustration: cyclist leaning into the wind, gold and blue gusts streaming past. 1920s poster style.
Plan your tripBest time of year to cycle in Uruguay (the wind is real)The honest answer is autumn — but every month here is rideable. What shapes your day isn't the temperature, it's the wind.

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