Localidad Rupestre de Chamangá, Rock art site in Flores Department, Uruguay

Localidad Rupestre de Chamangá is a protected landscape of over 12,000 hectares east of Trinidad, Flores, with gently rolling grassland and granite outcrops along the Chamangá and Los Molles streams. Its 44 inventoried rock paintings, mostly abstract geometric motifs such as framed shapes, lozenges, crosses, and zigzags, are painted on open granite blocks rather than in caves or shelters.

The paintings were catalogued and inventoried in the Chamangá area, where 44 rock paintings have been recorded to date. In 2010 a decree admitted the site to Uruguay's National System of Protected Areas. Work is under way to include it on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

The paintings follow an abstract geometric style: framed motifs, lozenges, cross shapes, the Greek key, rectangles, zig-zags, vertical parallel lines and comb-like toothed lines, plus fine-line engraving. They make up more than two thirds of all recorded pictographs in Uruguay.

The site can be reached via the Paso de la Cadena road, which connects at kilometer 164 on Route 3. The nearby towns of Trinidad and Durazno offer lodging and supplies for visitors planning to explore the area.

Chamangá holds more than two thirds of all recorded rock pictographs in Uruguay: 44 paintings inventoried so far, concentrated in one protected landscape of over 12,000 hectares east of Trinidad. The motifs are abstract and geometric — framed shapes, lozenges, crosses, Greek key bands, rectangles, zig-zags, parallel vertical lines and comb-like toothed lines — with some figures made by fine-line engraving rather than paint.