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

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.
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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.
- 01Roman 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 - 02Cathedral 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 - 03Museo 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 - 04Estadio 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 - 05Iglesia 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
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Getting to Salto
- Stations
- Nueva Hespérides International Airport, 6.6 km
- Ciudad de la Costa → Salto425 km · quickest by road, 8h 26m · $U1,330–1,780
- Rosario → Salto306 km · quickest by road, 6h 40m · AR$23,100–30,800
- Buenos Aires → Salto361 km · quickest by road, 6h 46m · AR$27,200–36,250
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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If you know how people move in Salto – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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