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Los Glaciares

Los Glaciares sight

Santa Cruz, Argentina

The Los Glaciares National Park is an area of exceptional natural beauty, with rugged, towering mountains and numerous glacial lakes, including Lake Argentino, which is 160 km long. At its farthest end, three glaciers meet to dump their effluvia into the milky grey glacial water, launching massive ...

Iguazu National Park

Iguazu National Park sight

Province: Misiones - Region: Nord-Est, Argentina

The semicircular waterfall at the heart of this site is some 80 m high and 2,700 m in diameter and is situated on a basaltic line spanning the border between Argentina and Brazil. Made up of many cascades producing vast sprays of water, it is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. The...

Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas

Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas sight

Patagonia Region, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

The Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, contains an exceptional assemblage of cave art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago. It takes its name (Cave of the Hands) from the stencilled outlines of human hands in the cave, but there are also many depictions of animals, such as guanacos (Lama gu...

Península Valdés

Península Valdés sight

Argentina

Península Valdés in Patagonia is a site of global significance for the conservation of marine mammals. It is home to an important breeding population of the endangered southern right whale as well as important breeding populations of southern elephant seals and southern sea lions. The orcas in th...

Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks

Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks sight

Provinces of San Juan and La Rioja, Argentina

These two contiguous parks, extending over 275,300 ha in the desert region on the western border of the Sierra Pampeanas of central Argentina, contain the most complete continental fossil record known from the Triassic Period (245-208 million years ago). Six geological formations in the parks conta...

Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba

Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba sight

Province of Cordoba, Argentina

The Jesuit Block in Córdoba, heart of the former Jesuit Province of Paraguay, contains the core buildings of the Jesuit system: the university, the church and residence of the Society of Jesus, and the college. Along with the five estancias, or farming estates, they contain religious and secular b...

Quebrada de Humahuaca

Quebrada de Humahuaca sight

Province of Juyuy, Argentina

Quebrada de Humahuaca follows the line of a major cultural route, the Camino Inca, along the spectacular valley of the Rio Grande, from its source in the cold high desert plateau of the High Andean lands to its confluence with the Rio Leone some 150 km to the south. The valley shows substantial evi...

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