Town

Chuy

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A border town with Brazil, split from Chuí by the international avenue.

Chuy
Photo: Mx. Granger · Wikimedia Commons · CC0

In our stories

  • The Atlantic coast

    No route in Uruguay has been ridden — or written up — more than the coast from Chuy to Montevideo, through Rocha and Maldonado..

  • Crossing the continent

    Lechu Villalba & Nico González — the Carmelo–Chuy guide.

  • Community

    No route in Uruguay has been ridden — or written up — more than the coast from Chuy to Montevideo, through Rocha and Maldonado..

  • The west

    Aventurebox.com/ejmaia/cicloturismo-chuy-x-colonia-del-sacramento-uruguay/report captured 3 June 2026.

  • Who's cycled Uruguay

    The Atlantic coast — from Chuy to Montevideo through Rocha — is the most-documented corridor, ridden above all by Brazilians who cross at the border and follow the sea…

  • By long-distance bus

    From Brazil , EGA and TTL Turismo — the latter with seventy years on the route — run from Porto Alegre through Pelotas and across at Chuy, about twelve hours..

  • Coming from Brazil

    Of the ways into Uruguay, this is the simplest: at Chuy you ride straight across.

In community accounts

  • Eva Pfarrwaller & Miguel Anjo

    Chuy → Santa Teresa NP → Punta del Diablo → La Paloma → Punta del Este → Montevideo → Mercedes → Fray Bentos → Carmelo.

  • Edson Maia

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

  • Louisa Woolf

    Acol (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); ~251…

  • Caryl L. Bergeron

    Montevideo airport → Parque Roosevelt → coastal route → Punta del Este → Chuy; notes also cover Colonia approaches.

  • Caryl & Brian Bergeron

    Montevideo → Atlantida (19 mi) → Piriapolis (53 km) → Punta del Este → La Paloma → Aguas Dulces → Parque Santa Teresa → Chuy → (bus return) → Santa Lucia → Colonia del…

  • ARIELENBICI (trip report); nicolasforclan (OP, planning)

    Montevideo → Chuy (Brazil border) full coastal route, March 2011; ~50 km/day suggested pace.

  • Author + Ramon

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

  • 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…

  • Michael Schreiber

    Chuy (Brazil border) → Castillos → San Carlos → Atlántida → Montevideo → Eclida Paullier → Colonia del Sacramento → ferry to Buenos Aires; 527 km / 10 days; Nov 2016.

  • Eduardo Morena

    La Cruz/Corrientes → Chui → Pelotas → Quaraí → Uruguayana → Salto → Paysandú → Colón/AR (2,878 km in 13 days).