Landmark

Sarandí Breakwater

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Follow the old town's pedestrian street past its last block and you end up in the river, at the foot of a lighthouse.

Sarandí Breakwater
Photo: Felipe Restrepo Acosta · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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