This is the Monumento al Ahogado, a.k.a., La Mano de Punta del Este. It is on the beach in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Visited November 2013.
I thought that those fingers from the land, "la mano," were whimsical and fun when I visited there. A few years later, someone told me that "Ahogado," as in "Monument to the," means "Drowned." This is the "Monument to the Drowned." This is the last thing you would see of someone who is drowning in the ocean. Kind of takes away the whimsy, no?
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