Argentina: attractions and places of interest

The Punta Tombo Nature Reserve in Argentina is located on a small peninsula. Here you can see the largest colony of Magellanic penguins. It occupies a strip of the Atlantic Ocean coast 3 km long and 0.6 km wide. The territory of the reserve is protected and belongs to the Argentine Marine National P...

Mount Fitzroy is located in Patagonia, an area that borders Chile and Argentina. This mountain has other names: Cerro Chalten, as well as Cerro Fitzroy. At the same time, its second name: "Chalten" in the Tehuelche language means "smoking mountain", which is quite suitable for Fitzroy Peak due to th...

There is one important natural attraction in Argentina - the Pampa steppe. The Pampas are large grassy steppes. They are mostly sparsely populated, but they extend from Buenos Aires to Uruguay and cover an area of 1,200,000 km2. They can also be described as plains, as the Quechua Indians believed,...

Located in Argentina, Palacio Barolo, located in the city of Buenos Aires, even now surprises with its architecture. It was built back in 1923, and at that time it was considered the tallest building on the entire continent. The building is now considered a National Historical Monument of Argentina....

The Recoleta Cemetery is one of the top three tourist attractions in Buenos Aires. The unusual method of burial is impressive: coffins with the deceased are not buried in the ground, but placed above the surface. A crypt is installed above the coffin, which looks like a house. In such a "house" seve...

Traful Lake is an amazing body of water in Argentina in Neuquen province. Its area is about 76 km2. Traful is the source of the river of the same name, and Nahuel Huapi is considered its mouth. This lake is known for its beauty, opening from a height of 102 meters. A massive rock rises above it, fro...

The Maipo volcano is one of the most active in the whole world. It is located on the border between Chile and Argentina, 90 kilometers to the southern part of Tupungato and 100 kilometers to the southeastern territory of Santiago. The height of the volcano reaches 5264 m. Its popularity is explained...

The Buenos Aires Japanese Garden is a public park area located in Buenos Aires, which is a district of Palermo. This garden is considered one of the largest Japanese gardens in the world outside of Japan. The Buenos Aires Garden was established in 1967 in the area of the Tres de Febrero City Park. ...

Quite by chance, in 1941, a unique cave was discovered in Argentina, which was named Cueva de las Manos, which in translation sounds like the Cave of the Hands. This find was found by a monk in one of the gorges of the local Pinturas River. At first, he could not even imagine that this area would be...

Salinas Grandes is a salt marsh located in the northwestern part of Argentina. Its location is a tectonic depression at an altitude of 170 m. in the middle of the ridges. The area of this territory is 6000 km2. Salinas Grandes is represented as a dried-up lake bed, the white surface of which resemb...