Uruguay

Punta del Este

Where the peninsula meets two shorelinesPunta del Este is a resort city on Uruguay’s southeastern coast, in Maldonado Department. Its setting is unusually legible on foot: the urban peninsula projects between two very different waterfronts, with Playa Mansa on the sheltered side and Playa Brava facing the open ocean. Uruguay’s tourism ministry describes the meeting of these shores as the point where the Río de la Plata gives way to the Atlantic. The distinction helps…...