Trekkings and cavalcades by the Yunga Subtropical; photographic safaris in the marvellous Quebrada de Huamahuaca; colourful hills; La Puna and La Quiaca are some of the best proposals that offer the beautiful and world well known "Tacita de Plata"

By Luis Rodriguez

Located at 1660 kilometers from Buenos Aires, its rich history, its excellent routes, a modern airport and its tourist circuits along landscapes crowned by hills and valleys in where it is possible to practice all class of tourism of adventure and the services to the tourist make of the place a site to visit at any time of the year.

Inside The Yunga

La Yunga Subtropical is the main reserve of fauna of the province. The Yunga Suptropical is the main faunística reserve of the province.
Its high annual rain regime, more than 1000 mm. (40 inches), nearly serves to feed the leafiness of its vegetation.
In its heart it is the Calilegua National Park where inhabit the yaguareté, the Huemul del Norte and the Lobito de Río, three species in serious danger of extinction. In order to visit the place in all its extension there are passages and excursions on board of all-terrain vehicles organized by professionals that last two days. Also, the tourists can participate on cavalcades and trekkings to visit differents towns and hills of the zone, campling included. In the last case, the adveture last almost a week.

Hill up by La Quebrada

The Quebrada of Humahuaca is the most famous tourist sector of all the province. The axis of this zone is La Quebrada by which the runs the Río Grande (Great River), boxed between multicoloured hills, the great natural route of communication with the neighboring towns. In all the region, the houses seem came out of the same earth: of adobe, kneaded with earth and straw which calls the attention of the great majority of the tourists who visit it either by bus or just participating in long walks, cavalcades or photographic safaris.

The northest

A wide bridge of concrete, where function The Customs and Migrations Departments, serves to unite two towns and two brothers countries: La Quiaca (Argentina) with its rustic landscape and Villazón (Bolivia) with the diversity of the clothes of El Altiplano.
With a population that does not surpass the 12000 inhabitants, at 289 kilometers (179 miles) of the provincial capital and at 3,442 meters (11,292 feet) above sea level, between the second and the third Sunday of October of every year comes to the town inhabitants of the most remote places of the country to participate of the main celebration of the villagers: The Manca Fiesta, where the exchange is the main slogan.