El Pinar is a seaside resort of the

Canelones Department The Departamento de Canelones (; ) is one of the 19 Uruguayan departments. With an area of and 608,956 inhabitants at the 2023 Census, it is located in the south of Uruguay. Its capital is Canelones. Ciudad de la Costa is the largest city by ...

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. In 1994, when

Ciudad de la Costa Ciudad de la Costa is a city in Canelones Department of Uruguay, on the banks of the Río de la Plata between the streams Arroyo Carrasco and Arroyo Pando. It is considered an extension of the metropolitan area of Montevideo which it borders to t ...

took on the status of a city, El Pinar was incorporated in it.

Geography

El Pinar is the easternmost locality of Ciudad de la Costa, after which starts the group of resorts known as

Costa de Oro Costa de Oro is a long group of resort towns and beaches in Canelones Department, Uruguay, east of the Ciudad de la Costa.Río de la Plata The Río de la Plata (; ), also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda, Colonia, Punta Gorda. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean and ...

and it shares borders with

Lomas de Solymar Lomas de Solymar, which also contains the area Médanos de Solymar, is a residential neighbourhood and a resort of Ciudad de la Costa in Canelones Department, Canelones, Uruguay. Geography This resort is located on the Ruta Interbalnearia between ...

to the west, with Neptunia to the east, with the stream Arroyo Pando separating the two, and with Country Villa Juana to the north.

Places of worship

* St. Rose of Lima Parish Church (

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)

Population

In 2011 El Pinar had a population of 21,091. Source: ''Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay''

Street map

References

External links

INE map of El Pinar
Ciudad de la Costa {{Canelones-geo-stub