Barra del Chuy
Barra del Chuy is a resort in the Rocha Department of southeastern Uruguay. Its name means Mouth of Chui. It is the last coastal resort of Uruguay, bordering Brazil to the southeast with the stream Arroyo Chui as the natural border.Photo: FrancoBras, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 905 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Balneario Barra del Chuy”, “Barra Do Chuy”, and “La Barra”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chuí Lighthouse.
Chuí Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: FrancoBras, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chuí Lighthouse is an active lighthouse in Barra do Chuí, at the mouth of Chuí Stream, just 1 kilometre from the Uruguayan border; the lighthouse is the southernmost of all the Brazilian lights.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chuy and Chuí.
Chuy
Chuy is a town in the Atlantic Coast region of Uruguay, with its twin town of Chuí right across the street in Brazil. The main street in Chuy is the actual border between Uruguay and Brazil.
Chuí
Photo: FrancoBras, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chuí is in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the South of Brazil, at the border with Uruguay. It's right across the street from its sister town of Chuy, Uruguay.
Barra del Chuy
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Rocha Department, Uruguay, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.75514° or 33° 45′ 19″ southLongitude
-53.389° or 53° 23′ 20″ westPopulation
905Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
48R86JV6+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 1323136291OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3443676Wikidata ID
Q808783
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Barra del Chuy” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Chuí”
- Dutch: “Barra del Chuy”
- French: “Barra del Chuy”
- German: “Barra del Chuy”
- Italian: “Barra del Chuy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barra del Chuy”
- Norwegian: “Barra del Chuy”
- Portuguese: “Barra de chuy”
- Portuguese: “Barra de Chuy”
- Portuguese: “Barra del Chuy”
- Portuguese: “Playa de barra del chuy”
- Portuguese: “Playa de Barra del Chuy”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Barra del Chuy”
- Spanish: “Barra del chuy”
- Spanish: “Barra del Chuy”
- Swedish: “Chuí”
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