This is a Port of Entry. See Uruguay Formalities for full details on clearing into and out of the country.
Call PIRIAPOLIS CONTROL on VHF Channel 16 at least 30 minutes before arrival. It's likely you won't get an answer and if you do it will be in Spanish.
Tie up in a marina berth as directed (see Docking) and handle the formalities later. All the officials are reported to be friendly.
Next, be sure to change some money as the rest of the Clearance process needs small amounts of local currency (Uruguayan pesos).
You will need to visit Immigration, Prefectura and the Harbour Master.
The immigration office is located 50 meters from the port and operates Monday to Saturday from 12:30 to 16:30. You will be stamped into the country and be given immigration papers.
Note: Every time you are issued a document/form, be sure to photocopy it three times. Ask Immigration to do this to save you having to visit the copy shop in town.
For domestic departures, visit the Harbour Master to check out and pay and then the Prefectura with your payment slip.
For international departures, visit all offices.
Last updated: October 2018.
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We arrived here from Brazil in October 2018. No-one answered our calls on channel 16 before we arrived. Finally, once in the marina we called again and the Prefectura answered in Spanish. The marina doesn’t seem to use VHF, so we waited until marina staff found us. They directed us to a berth and took our stern lines to the pontoon, but they can’t help with bow line to the mooring, which made it a bit challenging. Let them know then and there if you want electricity and water as there is a daily charge (unlimited use). Showers ok (paid), free wifi at harbour office. Movistar (in town) sells pre-paid sim cards with very cheap internet bundles.
Formalities: Immigration (passports, boat papers, clearing-out documents from Brazil, 517 pesos to be paid in cash, exact amount), then Prefectura (copies of passports, boat papers and the “Rol”, which for us was the Brazilian Annex 1-A form (with stamps from immigration). Ask immigration to make a copy of the form after stamping it, so you won’t have to go to town again to make a copy to give to the Prefectura. We made copies in town at the “Libreria” shop. On the street facing the beach is the only bank in town, where you can get pesos (needed for immigration) and dollars (not really needed, as you can pay in pesos or with bank card in most places). Finally, the harbour master / hidrografia, which only inspected documents and didn’t need copies.
When we left for Montevideo, we went to pay the harbour master and then had to show our payment slip to the Prefectura.
Good place to leave the boat. Reasonable prices and good boat services. Workshops are expensive though. They were in the process of building three new piers when we stayed there in September 2015.