Tigre Delta boat tour
Catamaran ride through the Delta’s rivers, 1 to 2 hours, from $24,000. Departs from the Tigre Fluvial Station (Mitre 305); next door are the ticket windows for the line boats the islanders use.
- Date
- — Thu 31 December at 18:00
- Language
- 🇪🇸 Spanish
- From
- ARS 24,000 (≈ US$ 16)
Everything leaves from one place: the Tigre Fluvial Station “Domingo Faustino Sarmiento”, Mitre 305, a five-minute walk from the train station. Two worlds share the building: the tourist cruises and the line boats islanders take to get home.
The tourist catamaran trips last one to two hours. Sturla’s ticket window is inside the station, Local 10 (Gral. Mitre 319), open daily 9:00–18:30. The 1-hour and 1-hour-15 routes cost $24,000; the 2-hour one, $31,000. Children aged 3 to 10 pay $11,000.
The other option is to board a collective boat — the one people who live on the islands use. The ticket windows are inside the station: Delta Argentino at window 1 (4749-0537), Jilguero at 2 (4749-0987) and Interisleña at 3 and 4 (4749-0900). You pay with a SUBE card, it costs considerably less than the tourist cruise, and you see the Delta from the inside rather than from a viewing deck. Call ahead: timetables shift with the water level.
Fun fact: the Paraná Delta is one of the largest on the planet (14,000 km², 320 km long) and one of the few that does not flow into the sea but into another river, the Río de la Plata. Since there is not a single road between the islands, everything moves by water: there are grocery boats, ambulance boats and school boats that come round every morning to pick up the children.
Source: Viví Tigre (turismo oficial de Tigre) y Sturla Viajes
