Gorriti Island

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The Isla Gorriti is about two kilometers from Punta del Este in the Bay of Maldonado in the Río de la Plata, located in the Atlantic Ocean shortly before its confluence Uruguayan island.

The 1.7 km long and 21 -acre island is wide at its widest point 700 m and 160 m at the narrowest. Was named the covered with a pine forest island, which has the two beaches in the north and Puerto Jardín Playa Honda in the West, according to Francisco Gorriti. Previously, the island on which a cross was erected in 1531 was below the ship captains messages for other crews left, Isla Maldonado known as. The island served his time, among other pirates as a port. On the island there are the ruins of a fort

To the northeast of the island is a popular diving destination, the visual wreckage of sunken HMS Agamemnon 1809 there.