Hand in the Sand

Punta del Este

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March 21st 2007
The bus trip to the resort peninsula Punta del Este took about 1 1/2 hours and we ventured through 3 Uruguayan Departments (provinces, they have 19 in total). It is located in the Moldonano Department and was formerly a fishing village but is now an exclusive resort area. It is located about where the River Plate (which separates Buenos Aires from Uruguay) meets the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately ... read more

South America » Uruguay » East » Punta del Este

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A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand i... ... read more