In some places of Argentina, gas stations sponsored by yerba mate producers provide hot water for free to travellers, specifically for the purpose of drinking during the journey.

In Brazil, traditionally prepared mate is known as chimarrão. Nowadays, in Brazil, mate is also toasted and prepared in a similar manner to black tea. You can easily find "tea bags" and prepacked "iced tea" packages and bottles at supermarkets, restaurants and even at fast food chains. This is also true of Argentina, where people make (or buy bags of) mate cocido, to be served in a cup.

Most Chileans are not mate drinkers. However, the people of its southern regions, particularly Chiloé and Magallanes, consume large amounts of it as a legacy of the generations of natives who travelled to Argentina to find work and eventually returned.

In some provinces of the Middle Eastern states Syria and Lebanon it is common to drink mate. The mate was imported from Arab emigrants in South America returning to their home-countries.

There is another drink that can be prepared with specially cut dry leaves, very cold water and, optionally, lemon or other fruit juice, called tereré.