Uruguay
Atlantic Coast
Maldonado Department

Punta del Este

Punta del Este is a beach resort town in complete with casinos, beaches, yachts and lots of tourists from all over the world. Many of these tourists come from the other side of the Rio de la Plata from to get some nice fun in the sun on a beach away from the brown waters of the Rio de la Plata.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include The Hand and Punta del Este Lighthouse.

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La Mano is a sculpture in Punta del Este by artist Mario Irarrázabal. It depicts five human fingers partially emerging from sand and is located on Parada 1 at Brava Beach in Punta del Este, a popular tourist town in .

Lighthouse
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Church
Photo: Marinna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church of Our Lady of Candelaria is a Roman Catholic in Punta del Este, Uruguay. The parish was established 1 February 1948. The first temple was built in 1911.

Punta del Este

Latitude
-34.9632° or 34° 57′ 48″ south
Longitude
-54.944° or 54° 56′ 38″ west
Population
18,100
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
PDP
United Nations Location Code
UY PDP
Open location code
48Q723P4+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302611023
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3440939
Wiki­data ID
Q56069
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Punta del Este” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Punta del Este”
  • Arabic: “بونتا دل إيستي”
  • Armenian: “Պունտա դել Էստե”
  • Asturian: “Punta del Este”
  • Azerbaijani: “Punta del Este”
  • Basque: “Punta del Este”
  • Bulgarian: “Пунта дел Есте”
  • Catalan: “Punta del Este”
  • Cebuano: “Punta del Este”
  • Chavacano: “Punta de Este”
  • Chinese: “埃斯特角城”
  • Croatian: “Punta del Este”
  • Croatian: “Punte del Este”
  • Czech: “Punta del Este”
  • Danish: “Punta del Este”
  • Dutch: “Punta del Este”
  • Esperanto: “Punta del Este”
  • Extremaduran: “Punta del Este”
  • Finnish: “Punta del Este”
  • French: “Punta del Este”
  • German: “Punta del Este”
  • Greek: “Πούντα ντελ Έστε”
  • Guarani: “Punta del Este”
  • Hebrew: “פונטה דל אסטה”
  • Hungarian: “Punta del Este”
  • Ido: “Punta del Este”
  • Indonesian: “Punta del Este”
  • Italian: “Punta del Este”
  • Japanese: “プンタ・デル・エステ”
  • Korean: “푼타델에스테”
  • Lithuanian: “Punta del Estė”
  • Malagasy: “Punta del Este”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Punta del Este”
  • Norwegian: “Punta del Este”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Punta del Este”
  • Persian: “پونتا دل استه”
  • Polish: “Punta del Este”
  • Portuguese: “Punta del Este”
  • Russian: “Пунта дель Эсте”
  • Russian: “Пунта-дель-Эсте”
  • Serbian: “Пунта дел Есте”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Punta del Este”
  • Silesian: “Punta del Este”
  • Slovak: “Punta del Este”
  • Spanish: “Punta del Este”
  • Swedish: “Punta del Este”
  • Thai: “ปุนตาเดลเอสเต”
  • Turkish: “Punta del Este”
  • Ukrainian: “Пунта-дель-Есте”
  • Urdu: “پونتا دیل ایستے”
  • Venetian: “Punta del Este”
  • Vietnamese: “Punta del Este, Uruguay”
  • Vietnamese: “Punta del Este”
  • Vietnamese: “Punta Del Este”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Punta del Este”
  • “Punta del Este”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Punta del Este”. Photo: NaBUru38, CC BY-SA 3.0.