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 The north of Argentina is a zone with a culture rooted to the tradition, with high incaica descendants and mountainous landscapes, with the peculiar combination of deserts and forests. To travel to the Argentine north is like traveling to the past, the culture, the people, the historical helmets and the depopulated zones transmit an pleasant sensation to us to be living another time. Clear that it is not necessary to cross too much for found with shopping or great commercial offices. Nevertheless, still they are left many places virgin of the estresante contact of the "progress". In this section we will present some of the more important tourist attractions. However, we make the explanation of which of no way we managed to not even include all the beautiful sites of the region and the majority: we only marked the most concurred to orient it and we invited it to continue crossing and being surprised with overwhelming places.
Valley of the Moon: in the Province of San Juan, this landscape formed in the Triasic period invites us to a unique experience. The Valley of the Moon shows to us how it was our planet makes million years or, as its name indicates it, how it is the appearance of another planets of the galaxy. The zone is completely barren and with strangest formation rocky that presents/displays the most varied forms and sizes. This place is unique and it cannot be classified within a type of landscape: we could say that it is a desert, but it would have left very small. Perhaps we must say that it is a mineral forest.
Quebrada de Humahuaca: it is a mountainous valley of 155 kilometers of extension. In 2003 patrimony of the humanity by the UN was declared. The Gorge of Humahuaca combines one rooted and old indigenous tradition and one overwhelming landscaping beauty. The pre-Columbian culture arises in ancestral festivales, celebration, rituals and ceremonies that the visitors interest much. The landscaping beauty of the place is really deslumbrate and very particular specially in the colorful one of mountains. The panoramic view of the region shows mountainous elevations to us of varied colors being the most impressive and well-known of them Zero Seven Colors, located in the locality of Purmamarca, to few kilometers of the Gorge of Humahuaca.
Train to the Clouds: one of the trains more elevated of the world crosses the province of Jumps. With a total route of 217 kilometers in 15 hours roundtrip, the train crosses the skies that cover the most overwhelming and wonderful landscapes. This excursion is one of the more important tourist attractions of the Argentine north. The train is old and warm and shares with the rest of the region the capacity to give the sensation us to have backed down in the time.
Aconcagua: with 6962 meters of height it is the highest mountain of the Western Hemishpere. Located in the province of Mendoza, within the Provincial Park Aconcagua, this mountain is referring a world-wide one of the mountain climbing. And for that they do not practice this extreme sport, the Aconcagua offers the possibility of stopping itself in its base and of contemplating one of the highest mountains of the planet, only of feeling its energy and to be impressed with its monumental rocky bearing.
The impressive tourist supply of the Argentine north is consolidated day to day. In the last years, this region experienced a great increase in the tourist affluent and it went away improving to receive it correctly. What in this section we have presented/displayed is only as a direction, the possibilities are infinite. The Small house of Tucumán, in the province homónima is the site where the independence of the country in 1816 was declared. Las Leñas, in the province of Mendoza, are a gigantic and famous tourist center for skiers. The city of Salta and Mendoza they are beautiful cities that you will enjoy very many. Our advice is that he investigates and does not stop in a place thinking that will not find the other best one: the north of Argentina will surprise it each step, will find a land of dream behind each mountain there.
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