Cabo Polonio is a wonderful village in Uruguay where there is no electricity

On the north-east coast of Uruguay, there is a small beach village of Cabo Polonio, which is surrounded on one side by a national park and on the other by the Atlantic Ocean. Its main feature is the complete lack of electricity.

More precisely, only the old lighthouse, which is located on the outskirts of Cabo Polonio, is connected to the mains. Only a few of the hundreds of houses have generators or solar panels. However, there are also not all the other benefits of civilization: plumbing and sewage, and locals get drinking water from wells or by collecting rainwater.

The closeness to the vast region of shifting sand dunes adds even greater isolation from the outside world of Cape Polonio. The village itself, although it is only 7 kilometers from the main highway, but there are no roads here at all. So you can get into the village either on foot, moving on the sand, or on an all-wheel drive car.

Among the frequent guests in Cape Polonio, you can see astronomy lovers who, for observing the night sky, benefit from the complete absence of light and street lighting, biologists or simply wildlife lovers, because not far from the lighthouse there are a couple of rocky islands that are home to numerous marine colonies lions.

But this place was especially popular among hippies. The lack of electricity attracts people of this subculture here like a magnet. As a rule, these are residents of Argentina and Brazil. They begin to gather in a remote Uruguayan village in January and live here for months, enjoying the silence, the ocean and the estrangement from the electrified world.

Watch the video: Cabo Polonio, um vilarejo sem energia elétrica. Uruguai Ep. 03 (March 2024).

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