Being the ideal place for sun lovers, it has beaches with slight sloping and isles with white sand that provide you with beautiful views and landscapes of the Uruguay River.
In this area, many fishing and water sport activities are practiced, being kayaking, rowing, windsurfing, sailing, water skiing and swimming the most popular.
Colón City is an important tourist destination because it is only 50 kilometers away from
El Palmar National Park, created to preserve Syagrus Yatay Palm Trees in 8,500 hectares with streams of clear water, exuberant wild vegetation and colourful flocks. This area is ideal to go camping and watching animals that live in the park, such as viscachas, capybaras, foxes, partridges, American ostriches, skunks, armadilloes, alligators and milliards of birds as well as wild boars and axis stags.
Apart from al these attractions, Colón also has a
Hot Springs Resort in the North of the city, next to the Golf Club, that has meso-thermal sodium bicarbonated waters (with sodium, chloride, potassium and phosphate), which reach 36ºC and are recommended as a therapy. They can be either drunk or used for bathing.
In the surroundings, you can go on water safaries using semirigid boats and visiting San Francisco and Hornos Isles- they have abundant autochthonous vegetation and fauna. You can also go on 3 and a half hour-safaries in four tracks that will take you to inhospitable and really interesting places like La Calera,
Pueblo Liebig and Los Chivos Hill.
In the neighboring town of
San José, you can also enjoy another
hot springs resort and, on January and February, the
Las Palmas Carnival at the
corsódromo of San José.
Colón is known as the place that offers you a wide range of possibilites- you must discover them.
