Costa de Oro is a long group of

resort town A resort town, often called a resort city or resort destination, is an urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy. A typical resort town has one or more actual resorts in the surrounding ...

s and beaches in Canelones Department, Uruguay, east of the Ciudad de la Costa.National Statistical Institute
Document of the INE differentiating between Costa de Oro and Ciudad de la Costa and referring to a small difference with the Cartography Department which does not include Country Villa Juana in Costa de Oro (see footnote). Until 19 October 1994 it also included all the resorts that became henceforth integrated under the name Ciudad de la Costa. Since then, Costa de Oro contains only the resorts and locations of the area delimited by the streams Arroyo Pando to the west and Arroyo Solís Grande to the east and by the highways Ruta 8 and Ruta 9 to the north.

History

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the coast of Canelones was a desert of dunes and marshes. Being unsuitable for agriculture, this land was considered of little value. By 1870, some of the economically powerful families of

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acquired the custom of setting up summer camps in Santa Rosa Beach (the actual Mansa Beach of Atlántida). They traveled in wagons that were used as housing, and they transported food supplies, including chickens and dairy cows for a three-month stay. In 1908 efforts began to ameliorate the land of dunes. Pines brought from

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, Portugal and southern France were planted, as well as eucalyptus and

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s. From the following decade onwards, various resorts started developing along the coast, with Atlántida the first and the biggest and most developed until the 1990s. The rapid growth of the rural area adjacent to the coast in the decade of the 1990s, increasingly linked to tourism, and the expansion of the metropolitan area of

have significantly changed the area.

Coastal resorts of Costa de Oro

* Neptunia * Pinamar-Pinepark * Salinas *

Marindia Marindia is a resort of the Costa de Oro in the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay. Location The resort is located on the Ruta Interbalnearia Ruta Interbalnearia (which means Inter-resort Route) or Ruta Líber Seregni is a national route ...

* Fortín de Santa Rosa *

Villa Argentina Villa Argentina is a resort (''balneario'') of the Costa de Oro in the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay. The famous eagle-shaped house overlooking the Río de la Plata, which is attributed to Atlántida, is in fact located in this resort. ...

* Atlántida * Las Toscas *

Parque del Plata Parque del Plata is a city of the Costa de Oro in the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay. Location The city is located on the Ruta Interbalnearia, east of Montevideo, extending for over the coast west of the stream Arroyo Solís Chico. Th ...

* Las Vegas * La Floresta * Costa Azul * Bello Horizonte * Guazuvirá Nuevo * Guazuvirá *

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* Los Titanes * La Tuna * Araminda * Santa Lucía del Este *

Biarritz Biarritz ( , , , ; Basque also ; oc, Biàrritz ) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in southwestern France. It is located from the border with Spain. ...

* Cuchilla Alta * El Galeón * Santa Ana * Balneario Argentino * Jaureguiberry

References

External links

www.turismo.gub.uy (Spanish)
(Note: The stated 70 km of length appears to indicate the older definition of the ''Costa de Oro''.)

Populated places in the Canelones Department Beaches of Uruguay {{Canelones-geo-stub

History

Coastal resorts of Costa de Oro

See also

References

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