Naturism in Uruguay

By the 1970s, the Argentine citizen Benjamín Volco bought the adjacent lands and developed the town of Chihuahua, and also planted pine and acacia trees.

In 1980 years, after news reports from La Razón and Clarín agencies from Argentina, helicopters from Argentine media came trying to take pictures and record from the sky the beach and its bathers, until that time a very private location.

Around that time the Uruguayan Coast Guard started to perform raids against bathers requiring them to dress otherwise they would be subject to fines or criminal procedures.

[2] Due to it lacked an official demarcation since its official designation, in 2012 the government of Maldonado issued the resolution 7823/2012 by which its boundaries were delimited, in the east the imaginary line to the south of the main avenue axis, central street of the semicircle of the land development, with the extreme was near the beach; to the west the left bank of El Potrero stream and its mouth to the River Plate; and to the north the dunes hills.

[12] This demarcation turned out to be reducing the beach coverage in the most visited part, what led to protests from the Uruguayan Nudism and Naturist Association.

[13][14] This controversy ended after the departmental government revoked that ruling and issued a new one, 8839/2012, that defined a wider boundary to the east side, in the imaginary projection of the axis of El Foque street to the south, near the entrance to the beach of vehicles.

Due to this feature it was visited by local nudists since several years, but in secrecy because the departmental rules ban the entrance in nudity without any kind of swimwear.