Rocha is the ocean coast: La Paloma, La Pedrera, Cabo Polonio and Punta del Diablo receive Uruguayan, Argentine and Brazilian visitors in summer via Route 9, which continues to Chuy, the city split by the border with Brazil. Off season, rice, cattle and the port of La Paloma move the trucks. Urban fines are issued by the Intendencia and collected through SUCIVE; those on Routes 9 and 15 outside the resorts, by the Policía Caminera.

Context and authorities

Each intendencia applies Law 18.191 and its own traffic code: fines are set in adjustable units, notified to the plate holder and paid at the intendencia or through SUCIVE, which centralises the collection of vehicle tax and fines for every department. A pending debt shows up when renewing the tax, transferring the vehicle or requesting the debt-free certificate.

The Intendencia’s Transit Directorate issues fines in Rocha, La Paloma, Chuy and the resorts, with speed and parking checks in season; a defence is filed with the Intendencia and payment is made through SUCIVE or at its offices. Fines on Argentine and Brazilian plates are collected on the spot or remain recorded for the next entry.

What the API returns for this jurisdiction

In Rocha a plate lookup walks the integrated sources of the Uruguay fines API and returns each fine with the intendencia or authority that applied it, as the source publishes it:

  • The authority that applied the fine and its number, unnormalised.
  • The date and reason, with the location if the source reports it.
  • The amount and status current at the source.
  • Which sources answered and which did not, on every lookup.

How to check a plate in Rocha

A plate is checked by hand at SUCIVE and, for the detail and the defence, at the Rocha Intendencia portal. The API does the same round at scale and returns each fine with the authority that applied it, so verification becomes part of the fleet process rather than a spreadsheet.

What to watch if you run a fleet in Rocha

A rent-a-car or a tourist transport fleet working the resorts in season receives Intendencia and Caminera fines on units that change driver every week; the plate lookup when closing each rental or trip, with the result stored, charges them to whoever was driving while the contract exists.

For a rice company or one at the port of La Paloma, the monthly plate lookup separates seasonal fines from those of the rest of the year and prevents a forgotten one from blocking the vehicle tax.

How to integrate

Each vehicle is sent in a POST, with the jurisdictions to include if you do not want to query all of them. The response accepts the job and the result is retrieved by status lookup or arrives by webhook once the sources finish answering. The vehicle lookup quality guide explains how to handle a source that did not answer.

JSONIllustrative example, not a contract.
{
  "plate": "SBC1234",
  "jurisdictions": [
    "UY-RO"
  ]
}

Limits and considerations

  • Fines from the Policía Caminera on national routes are processed by the Ministry of the Interior and are also collected through SUCIVE.
  • Amounts in adjustable units are converted at the current value; the final amount is set by the intendencia at the time of payment.
  • A source that does not answer is reported as such, never as an absence of fines.
  • The API neither pays fines nor handles defences; it delivers information to decide.

Sources and further reading