Rincon de tres cerros

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Rincón de Tres Cerros' (literally "corner of the three hills") is an area in the Northeast of Uruguay wedged between the rivers Tacuarembó and Cuñapirú (hence the toponym "corner"), in the Department of Rivera. The area owes its name to the three flat "mesa" or butte hills (cerros) aligned in a row, from smaller to biggest and North to South respectively, which dominate the horizon. Their names (from larger to smaller) are: "Cerro Zapato", or "Alpargata" (it is roughly the shape of a shoe seen from above), "Cerro del Medio", and "Cerro Chapeu" (meaning hat in Portuguese). They are bare except for a few native woodland trees around the brim of the "table tops", and the Cerro Zapato which has had Eucalyptus trees planted along its north-eastern flank and the eastern part of the top surface. Access to the area is made difficult by sporadic flooding which cuts off the main access bridges (Paso Rogelio on the Tacuarembó river, and Paso Cunha on the Cuñapirú river) that cross the two rivers.

Photo looking South East from Cerro Alpargata

Photo looking North West from Cerro Alpargata