Rocha
Rocha is one of the nineteen departments that make up the Eastern Republic of Uruguay. Its capital is the homonymous Rocha. It is located in the center east of the country, limiting to the north with Treinta y Tres, to the east with the Merín lagoon and the Federative Republic of Brazil, to the southeast with the Atlantic Ocean and to the west with Lavalleja and Maldonado. It is part of what is known as crystalline peneplain, in its interior, and the eastern plains, on the coastal strip.