The Fortaleza de Santa Teresa, or Fortaleza Santa Tereza is a military fortification located south of Chuy and northeast of Montevideo on Route 9, in the Rocha Department of eastern Uruguay. It lies about from the coast at Playa la Moza, almost halfway between Angostura (to the south) and La Coronilla (to the north), north of Punta del Diablo and roughly northeast of the northeast bank of the Laguna Negra. It lies within the Santa Teresa National Park. It was erected from October 1762 by the…
