Waterway

Laguna Garzón

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A lagoon separating Maldonado from Rocha, crossed by a circular bridge.

Laguna Garzón
Photo: Jimmy Baikovicius · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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

    BA → Colonia (ferry) → Carmelo (80 km) → Montevideo → Piriápolis → Laguna Garzón (128 km) → La Paloma → Punta del Diablo (126 km).

  • Montevideo to Cabo Polonio: the Atlantic coast in stages

    You cross the Laguna Garzón — the lagoon mouth that marks the boundary into Rocha department — and the glossy resorts give way to the wilder, lower-key, emptier beaches…

In community accounts

  • Louisa Woolf

    BA → Colonia (ferry) → Carmelo (80 km) → Montevideo → Piriápolis → Laguna Garzón (128 km) → La Paloma → Punta del Diablo (126 km).

  • 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).

  • Klaus Bigelli

    Punta del Diablo → Laguna del Garzón; early-winter solo ride starting from Punta del Diablo after leaving Brazil.