A promenade of more than 22 kilometres traces Montevideo's riverfront — part protected bike lane, part shared road. Everything about riding it starts here.
Arrive in Montevideo by ship, plane or bus and sooner or later you end up on the rambla — the promenade that follows the city's edge along the Río de la Plata for more than 22 kilometres, Capurro to Carrasco. Locals treat it as a park, a running track, a fishing spot and a place to drink mate while the sun goes down. On a bicycle, it turns into the simplest possible way to read the whole city in one afternoon.
A word of honesty before you set off: the bike infrastructure comes and goes. The Rambla Sur section has its own protected lane — 4.7 kilometres of it — but elsewhere you'll be riding on the road among cars, which most visitors find manageable at the rambla's unhurried pace and locals barely think about.
Below you'll find everything on this site that touches the rambla — riding guides, the cycleways along it, stops worth planning around, and the civic arguments over what the waterfront should become next. If it's your first time, the riding guide is the natural place to begin.
