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José Ignacio

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A former fishing village in Maldonado, now an upscale destination with its own lighthouse.

José Ignacio
Photo: Rosina Peixoto · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

In our stories

  • The Atlantic coast

    Woolf's companion guide to Maldonado gathers six linked rides — around a hundred kilometres in all — from Piriápolis and Punta Ballena out through Punta del Este, La…

  • Who's cycled Uruguay

    Piriápolis → Punta Ballena (33 km) → Punta del Este → La Barra (31 km) → José Ignacio (24 km) → Pueblo Garzón (40 km) / Laguna Garzón (13 km); optional inland Sierras…

  • Montevideo to Cabo Polonio: the Atlantic coast in stages

    Stage 3 — Piriápolis to José Ignacio (about 88 km).

In community accounts

  • Louisa Woolf

    Piriápolis → Punta Ballena (33 km) → Punta del Este → La Barra (31 km) → José Ignacio (24 km) → Pueblo Garzón (40 km) / Laguna Garzón (13 km); optional inland Sierras…

  • 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…