The Department of Rocha (see map) has 10,551 kilometers square with two hundred kilometers of coasts. It limits with Brazil and the Departments of Maldonado, Lavalleja and Treinta y Tres from Uruguay.
Rocha has very beautiful and heterogeneous landscapes from Uruguay. You can see a great variety of landscapes as an oceanic coast interrupted by rocky ends, bathed lagoons and, palmares with the palmera Butiá (Butia capitata) and rustic pajonales, mountain ranges and until a forest of ombúes (Phytolacca dioica) as you can see them in Palmar de Castillos. The flora of Uruguay counts on approximately 2500 species of plants. In the mount ribereño between the hydrophilic species it find Scutia buxifolia "Coronilla" that is a shrub that has slow grow because it grow up 2 millimeters per year and a tree that has a trunk of 20 cm. of diameter would be 100 years old.
In Rocha there are a great variety of birds. In Palmares de Castillos and in the Fuerte San Miguel is possible find ñandues (Rhea americana) a flightless, unmistakable due to its great height, massive legs, and terrestrial habits with about 23 kg weight on average.
La Paloma, La Pedredra, Santa Teresa and La Coronilla they have quiet and pictorial beaches. La Coronilla is a small, nice and very quiet village sited at 315 km northeast of Montevideo, and is 20 km from Chuy on the Brazilian border. It has vast wild beaches and some of the best fishing in Uruguay. In Cabo Polonio you will reach Punta del Diablo (End of the Devil) a nice and pictorical fishermen's village.
You will can visit two imposing constructions, the Fortaleza of Santa Teresa and the Fuerte San Miguel, they constitute part of the history of Rocha and they are a magnificent testimony of the fight that the empires of Spain and Portugal freed by the dominion of this part of the world during century XVI.