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Salto

Salto is a city in and the capital of the Salto Department in northwestern Uruguay.

Salto
Salto · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Salto is a city in and the capital of the Salto Department in northwestern Uruguay. As of the 2023 census it had a population of 114,084 and is the second most populated city in Uruguay, after Montevideo.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Salto

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Salto

    The Diocese of Salto is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Uruguay. The diocese was erected in 1897.

    1.1 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in Uruguay · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cathedral of Salto

    The Cathedral Basilica of Saint John the Baptist is the main Roman Catholic church building of Salto. It is the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salto since 1939.

    1.1 km · cultural heritage monument of Uruguay · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Museo del Hombre y la Tecnología

    Museo del Hombre y la Tecnología is located in Salto Department, Uruguay. Its exhibitions are devoted to demonstrating how the evolution of technology has influenced the lives of the people of Uruguay and the rest of the world.

    1.8 km · museum in Salto, Uruguay · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Estadio Parque "Julio Pozzi"

    Estadio Parque "Julio Pozzi" is a football stadium in Salto, Uruguay. It is currently used mostly for football matches of Salto F.C. The stadium holds 6,000 spectators.

    4.6 km · Football stadium in Salto, Uruguay · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen

    The Parish Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a Roman Catholic parish church in Salto.

    1.9 km · church building in Salto, Uruguay · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Salto

Stations
Nueva Hespérides International Airport, 6.6 km
  • Ciudad de la Costa → Salto
    425 km · quickest by road, 8h 26m · $U1,330–1,780
  • Rosario → Salto
    306 km · quickest by road, 6h 40m · AR$23,100–30,800
  • Buenos Aires → Salto
    361 km · quickest by road, 6h 46m · AR$27,200–36,250
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Salto

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Salto. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,383 km
  2. 02
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,503 km
  3. 03
    Ilha GrandeBR

    10 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,639 km
  4. 04
    ChiloéCL

    11 ways of moving, 16 sources

    1,892 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,121 km

If you know how people move in Salto – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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