Balneario Ypora

Besides being the heart of Gaucho culture during the Fiesta de la Patria Gaucha, the lagoon is also a favorite place for locals to go drink mate in late afternoon

A giant work of public art that supposedly resembles a mushroom, created by Walter Domingo, an architect who created several other important works in Tacuarembó Department. With the work, Domingo wanted to represent the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The 224-m-high mountain is a symbol included in the "Escudo del Departamento" (departamental shield). Its name Batoví means "virgin's breast" in the Guarani language.

Valle Edén is a mountain range zone with a subtropical vegetation. The "arroyo jabonería" , "la gruta de los galpones" and the "Carlos Gardel" museum are must see places for tourists. There is wooden suspension bridge, an old train station and some railway tracks too.

Largely dedicated to presenting evidence that the tango legend was actually born in Uruguay (and not in Argentina or France, as usually believed), the museum has a nice selection of newspaper articles and other documents. It's a nice insight into a less formal era, when name, age, parents or nationality could easily be concealed. The museum buildings are a reproduction of the nearby estancia in which Gardel would have been born.