Important boats make their stops periodically in this sport, being visited by outstanding international personalities that choose these coasts for their summering. Every year new comforts are added to the existing ones, answering the increasing demand imposed by the every time more numerous and demanding visitors.

Every day fishing boats weigh anchor, manned by sailors that continuing with long familiar traditions, supply the market with fish and fruits of the sea, available for the visitors few hours after their capture.

It is possible to be considered founded by the Spanish conqueror Juan Diaz de Solis, when the 2 of February of 1516 arrived to these coasts and give the name them of Virgen de las Candelarias (Virgin of the Candelarias), naming it patron-saint of the peninsula. Constructed in later times to the independence of Uruguay, the building of the Customs is one of the most remarkable works of this place.