The lighthouse
54 metres tall.
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The Faro Querandí is a lighthouse standing alone among the dunes about thirty kilometres south of Villa Gesell, at the southern end of a municipal reserve protecting one of the last wild stretches of dunes on the Buenos Aires coast. First lit on 27 October 1922, it was the first building in what is now the Villa Gesell district, and it is named after the Querandí, the native people of the River Plate region. Its brick tower, painted in black and white bands, is 54 metres tall, among the tallest on Argentina's coast, with a spiral staircase of 276 steps, and it is still run by the Argentine Navy. A small pine wood, planted to shelter the tower from the wind, surrounds it amid the bare sand. There is no road: it is reached along the beach and across the dunes by 4x4 or quad on half-day tours from Villa Gesell, and an ordinary car cannot make it.
54 metres tall.
A coastal reserve.
Around the tower.
Faro Querandí dune reserve, about 30 km south of Villa Gesell
There is no road; 4x4 and quad tours reach it along the beach from Villa Gesell.