SAN JUAN
Capital: San Juan (119 399 hab. in the dpto.) 
Surface: 89 651 km2 
Population: 529 920 inhabitants 
Density: 5,9 hab. /km2 
The population's annual growth: 12,2% 
Males' index: 48,6% 
Main cities: Caucete, San José of Jáchal, Calingasta 
Administrative division: 19 departments
30/11/00 Ischigualasto - Valle de la Luna
Natural Patrimony of the Humanity was declared by the UNESCO
Location Season Activities Trips Loadging Festivities

The whole year is season
Their climate, in general benign even when per winter they can be harder, and a sky imminently blue. 
Extremely dry and healthy, the temperature varies from the superiors to 37°C in summer until those of some degrees under zero in winter
Temperaturas promedio, en verano 26°C, en otoño 18°C, en invierno 10°C y en primavera, 19°C
San Juan registra la cantidad de precipitación media anual más baja del país, con 83 mm
San Juan's city is a charmer and fertile oasis that it is located on the river San Juan, to 641 msnm to 1.149 km. of Buenos Aires, 498 km. of Córdoba, 320 km of San Luis and 165 km. of Mendoza
surrounded by mountainous cords. 
The city possesses a sinnúmero of tourist-cultural attractiveness.
The new San Juan, modernized, strong, born-again after the earthquake of 1944, with wide streets and avenues, hoisted sidewalks, and of course, constructions antisísmicas, offers the singular beauty of its landscapes.
The Mountain range of you Walk them, 
he/she adds details characteristic to their general panorama.

Difunta Correa

To only 64 km of the city, the Sanctuary of Deceased Belt, a place that all tourist should know receives promesantes of all the places of the country, in the southern estribaciones of Foot of Stick 
The legend says that a woman Deolinda Correa, during the civil wars, decides to follow her husband. With their small son on the back rushes to the desert, but this it is implacable and going on pilgrimage senseless it arrives to their end, the woman dies from thirst and of hunger. But the boy survives some days being already breastfeeded of his mother's chests dead. Some muleteers find it I live. It is miracle of the life and the origin of this legend. The popular belief has transformed it in a center of faith. 

This complex is very converged, especially in Week Santa and the Day of All the Saints
  DIFUNTA CORREA  


How to arrive?

Airplane. From Buenos Aires to San Juan: LAPA, Aerolineas Argentinas, From Córdoba to San Juan: Tan-Vasp.
Bús. From Buenos Aires to San Juan: Autotransporte San Juan, La Estrella-Cóndor, T.A.C, Transporte 20 de Junio, La Cumbre
Automobile: For RN 40, RN 141, RN 20, RP 39
Train: from Buenos Aires
Pismanta Thermal baths and Tradition
To 44 KM. of Jachal, and to 1900 m of height, in the department of Churches, he/she is one of the main attractiveness that are the thermal bathrooms of Pismanta. whose dilute termominerales of world prestige for their high healing virtues, recommended for the rheumatism and neuralgias, they spring from the earth to a temperature of 45 centigrade degrees. 
It is a true oasis amid a landscape desértico, to arrive to Pismanta is to return to the origin in the remote times, because there the nature survives intact. Hotel Casino. As much Pismanta as other sources mineral contiguous hipotermales (Rosebushes and Centennial) they invite to restore energy
Pismanta possesses a privileged climate, what allows to be visited during the whole year. In the months of December, January and February, the temperature is usually of 28°C during the day, and the nights are fresh and pleasant
San Agustín del Valle Fértil

Villa of San Agustín of the Fertile Valley is the head of Fertile Valley, to the northeast of San Juan's county, distant 250 km of the Capital City. This place is used by the travelers to lodge there to leave very early the following day toward el Valle de la Luna.

Barreal Blanco "El Leoncito"
Located to 1900 msnm, with a long of 12 km and a width 3 km, The Pampas The Leoncito", in Barreal it presents exceptional physical characteristics, of flat and hard surface that you/they summon to the national and international competitions of carrovelismo. (Tricycles to candle that they allow to travel to 100 km/hora). 
This singular sport has a considerable number of followers and sympathetic in the whole country
Valle de Calingasta
The Valley of the Dreams
Pleasant summer village, famous for their fruit-bearing cultivations.
It is the biggest valley from America to 1700 msnm, with a temperature estiva of the 7 at 39°C and winter of -6°C at 28°C. It is ideal for the practice of the sport it risks
Cerro Mercedario
It is San Juan's only snowy hill and the third summit of America, located in the heart of you Walk them, with 6770 msnm, it is a maximum challenge for the practice of the mountaineering. 
Prey and Reservoir The Ullum 
This reservoir is in the Gulch of the Zonda that he/she took its name of the dry and hot wind that usually punishes the region. With this prey he/she was formed an extensive lake that regulates the oscillations of the river San Juan. He/she allows to obtain water for watering and it generates electricity. It fences the racing circuit of the Zonda is and recesses and nautical clubs work.
Festividades:
Febrero Valle Fertil Safari Tras las Sierras
Abril Valle Fertil Semana Santa
Mayo Valle Fertil Acto Cívico
13 de Junio Valle Fertil Fundación de San Juan
24 de Junio Usco Fiestas Patronales de San Juan Bautista
29 de Junio Astica Fiestas Patronales de San Pedro
9 de Julio Valle Fertil Dia de la Independencia
28 de Agosto Valle Fertil Fiestas Patronales de San Agustín
21 de setiembre Valle Fertil Día de la Primavera
10 de Noviembre Valle Fertil Día de la tradición
8 de Diciembre Valle Fertil Día de la Inmaculada Concepción - Patroncita vallista

Autódromo El Zonda

Racing circuit the Zonda
It is one of the best automobile circuits in the world 
for their conception and location in a beautiful one and 
savage fences surrounded of hills for where the stream runs Zonda

Racing circuit of San Juan

Map of San Juan's County

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Near to the city they are the dikes San Emiliano, José Hin, of it Touches it, and organized campings, he/she is also the prey and Reservoir of Ullúm.

Reservoir of Ullúm

Loadging:

Walks and Trips:

In San Juan we can find a hotel of 5 stars in the Capital sanjuanina, two hotels of 3 stars, and five hotels of 2 stars

In Termas de Pismanta a hotel of three stars exists

Other lodgings in: Barreal, Calingasta, San Agustín del Valle Fértil y San José de Jáchal

Activities to carry out in San Juan:

It is the ideal scenario for the practice of the tourism it risks and non conventional sports: trekking, cavalcades, sports of mountains, scalings in the hills, aladelta in the mounts, photographic safaris, mountain range fishing, in the rivers, reservoirs and lagoons, rafting in the river San Juan, carrovelismo, enduro, activities náuticas,canotaje, windsurf in the reservoirs, trips 4 x 4, voyages to mule loin

Casa Natal de Sarmiento
Iglesia Catedral
Auditorio Ing.Juan Victoria
Centenares de Bodegas
Museo Arqueológico Prof.Mariano Gambier
Presa de Embalse Quebrada de Ullum
Quebrada del Zonda, con el autodromo
Ischigualasto
Santuario Difunta Correa
La Laja
Calingasta
Barreal: Observatorio Astronómico
Barreal Blanco
Cerro Mercedario
Termas de Pismanta
Reserva San Guillermo
It visits to some famous cellar and tasting of cider

Se encuentra al nordeste de la provincia de San Juan a 330 km de la capital sanjuanina y distante 80 km de San Agustín del Valle Fértil.

Los 45 km. de recorrido dentro del parque asombrarán al visitante. Se llega desde Los Baldecitos. El circuito grande abarca 45 kilómetros.

Provincial park Ischigualasto

ISCHIGUALASTO

It presents the ideal characteristics for the development of the tourism it risks 
Dry and Windy climate with maximum temperatures of 45°C and 10°C (nocturne) in winter.
It is a wide depression (50 km long for 15 km wide) of formations fantastic erosivas and fossils of vegetables, animals and dinosaurs that lived 180 millone of years ago. One of the strangest places in the Tierra Ischigualasto (geographical denomination) or also well-known as Valley of the Moon (tourist denomination), it is a trip to the remote past of the Earth that is visible in a vast hollow, where he/she makes millions of years there was a lake. Of this period they are fossil of grasses, hoist and animals. The imposing show of the red ravines and the Hill the one Lived, they advance something that this place offers. The special characteristics of the Rocks, blended hard and soft, gritty and clays, with some minerals, added to the action of the time during millions of years have allowed to carve onlookers forms. Ischigualasto has great scientific value, what has been conserved in him has allowed to reconstruct a period of the history of the earth, the Triásico that began 220 million years ago and it lasted until the 180 millions. Time in that the world was dominated by Dinosaurs. The scientific value of that place is that there the oldest dinosaurs appeared that lived 230 million years ago. The biggest wealth is in the fossils that have been. 
Ischigualasto - Talampaya is the only place in the world where fossil remains that allow recontruir a not very well-known period in the terrestrial geologic history, the Triásico exist

Reserva Natural Estricta El Leoncito

Complex Astronomical to 2500 msnm, in the Valley of Calingasta 
You can ascend in car to the hill The Leoncito, with their two astronomical observatories, to 20 km. of Barreal. From there there is a stupendous view of the high Mountain range. In the high of the mountain of Ansilta, with access from Barreal the Astronomical Complex works Leoncito whose main instrument is a mirror of 2,15 diameter meters, the biggest in the country. It fences there is another observatory, the Station of Height The Leoncito, initially created for the pursuit of satellites.

Refuge of Vida Silvestre The Morrillos 
It is a Natural and Archaeological Reservation, where it is possible the suris avistaje, gumps and birds to the observer's scarce meters, as likewise paintings rupestres and petroglifos, testimonies of the aboriginal presence in the area 
The tourism in The Morrillos pursues an educational objective primarily and it is conceived as an activity of under impact on the nature.

reserves of the biósfera of San Guillermo

It is the most southern area in America that protects to the camélidos in their hábitat
Landscapes of San Juan

HUMOR

 

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