Tongoy
Know Tongoy
Located in a peninsula, Tongoy is a fishermen town with beautiful landscapes. With favorable weather conditions, Tongoy has different tourist facilities likes hotels, restaurants, Puerto Velero, and camping areas. Sports are very important in the region, so you can practice sailing, windsurf, scuba diving and the fly fishing.Información del Destino:
- Attractions:
Beaches and tourist services.
- When to go:
All year long.
- Activities:
Swimming, scuba diving, sport fishing, sailing, surf, windsurf, picnic, flora and fauna contemplation, photography.
- Weather:
Semiarid. Arid by the north and mild by the south. The shore temperatures are homogeneuos, meanwhile in the interior the temperature oscillates between day and night time. Rain in winter season.
- Location:
Beaches and tourist services.
- Services;
Housing, food, transportation, outdoor activities.
- How to get there:
From the south-Tongoy: Land route, Panamericana Highway north (kilometer 415)
From the north-Tongoy: Land route, Panamericana Highway north (kilometer 427)
Guanaqueros-Tongoy: Land route, Panamericana Highway north (kilometer 432) - Surroundings:
Andacollo, Las Tacas Beach, Los Hornos Bay, El Tofo Hill, Old Chungungo, La Serena, Coquimbo, Choros Island, Damas Island, La Higuera, La Serena, Las Campanas Astronomy Observatory, La Silla Astronomy Observatory, Blanca Beach, Choros beach, Guanaqueros beach, La herradura beach, Peñuelas beach, Tongoy, Punta Choros, Humboldt Penguin National Reserve.
Nearby tourist attractions
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Coquimbo - 36 kmLa Serena - 47 kmLa Serena y Coquimbo - 42 kmMonte Grande - 97 kmObservatorio Cerro Tololo - 66 kmParque Nacional Fray Jorge - 45 kmPisco Elqui - 96 kmPlaya Morrillos - 17 km
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Playa Totoralillo - 23 kmPlayas Avenida del Mar - 40 kmTermas de Socos - 53 kmValle del Elqui - 89 kmValle del Encanto - 51 kmValle del Limarí - 58 kmValle del Río Elqui - 84 kmVicuña - 78 km