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Cabo Polonio

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A peninsula inside a national park, off the power grid, with its own sea lion colony.

Cabo Polonio
Photo: María Zully Bautista · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

In our stories

  • The Atlantic coast

    Cabo Polonio is its own kind of interruption: a car-free village inside a national park, with no paved road in and no riding allowed past the gate.

  • Montevideo

    Theirs is a hotel-to-hotel trip full of incident: a rear rack lashed back together with wire, the boatman Pepe Lobato rowing the two of them across the Laguna de Rocha…

  • Rentals & guided tours

    The most wide-ranging local operator, running since 2010 and the only one that regularly leaves Montevideo: city tours in the capital and Punta del Este, a five-day…

  • Who's cycled Uruguay

    El Caracol (Maldonado border) → La Paloma (78 km) → La Pedrera (12 km) → Cabo Polonio (38 km, dune buggy for the last stretch) → Punta del Diablo (71 km) → Chuy (52 km)…

  • Coming from Brazil

    Route 9 is the main corridor, carrying you down through Rocha toward Punta del Este and the capital; the coast's best-known stops — Cabo Polonio, Punta del Diablo, La…

  • Montevideo to Cabo Polonio: the Atlantic coast in stages

    ← Routes ⤢ Illustration · Pedaleando Uruguay Routes Montevideo to Cabo Polonio: the Atlantic coast in stages.

In community accounts

  • Edson Maia

    Chuy → Punta del Diablo → Valizas → Cabo Polônio → La Paloma → Punta del Este → Piriápolis → Montevideo → Colonia del Sacramento (400+ km).

  • Anonymous author with 69-year-old uncle Dagoberto

    Chuí → Barra del Chuy → La Coronilla → Parque Santa Teresa → Punta del Diablo → Cuchilla de la Angostura → Laguna Negra → Castillos → Aguas Dulces → Cabo Polônio → La…

  • Cândida (35, organizer) + 4 friends (5 women total)

    Chuí → Parque Nacional Santa Teresa → Punta del Diablo → Cabo Polônio → Laguna del Garzón → Punta del Este area; ~250 km approx; Feb 2015 (Carnival).

  • André R.
  • Bruno Galliez

    Chuí → Punta del Diablo → Cabo Polônio → La Paloma → Punta del Este → Piriápolis → Montevideo → Colônia del Sacramento; ~500 km / 7 days; Dec 2015.

  • Author + Ramon

    Montevideo → Piriápolis → Punta del Este → La Paloma → Cabo Polônio → Punta del Diablo → Parque Santa Teresa → Chuy; ~390 km; 2014.

  • Aline e Ari (BikeA2)

    Chuí → Punta del Diablo (~60 km) → Cabo Polônio (~68 km) → La Paloma (~57 km) → Punta del Este (~90+ km) → Atlântida (~107 km) → Montevideo (~55 km); 428 km / 6 days…

  • brasiltimor

    Chuy → Parque Santa Teresa (3-night camping base) → Punta del Diablo → Valizas → Cabo Polônio → Laguna de Rocha (boat crossing) → José Ignácio → La Barra → Punta del…

  • Tudo o que você precisa saber para pedalar pelo Uruguai

    Chuí (RS border) → Punta del Diablo (45 km) → Parque Santa Teresa → Cabo Polônio (62 km from PdD) → La Paloma → coastal corridor → Montevideo Rambla; ~500 km framework.

  • Estelle & partner (Fou d'un monde)

    Buenos Aires (ferry) → Colonia del Sacramento → Montevideo → Punta del Este → Cabo Polonio → coastal lagoon crossings → interior thermal-spring towns (Guaviyú, Daymán) →…