Cerro Arequita

Its name is of Guarani origin, meaning "water falling from the high rock over the caves". Since 2024 it is part of the National Park of Arequita, a nature sanctuary full of native species: armadillos, skunks, foxes, Geoffroy's cats, gray brockets, capybaras, river otters, nutrias, bats, chingolos, chalk-browed mockingbirds, dusky-legged guans, turkey vultures, savannah vultures. An endemic epiphyte flowering plant species is Tillandsia arequitae. == In art ==

• Carlos Federico Sáez painted this hill in 1899. • The Cerro Arequita is featured on both the coat of arms and the flag of Lavalleja Department. == Bibliography ==