SAN
LUIS
Capital: San Luis (121 146 hab. in the dpto.)
Surface: 76 748 km2
Population: 286 334 inhabitants
Density: 3,7 hab. /km2
The population's annual growth: 27,8%
Males' index: 50,3%
Main cities: I joust Daract, Villa Mercedes
Administrative division: 9 departments |
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The whole year is season
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He/she enjoys a pleasant climate and I dry off
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LANDSCAPES
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CLIMATE
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To the landscape variety he/she is also corresponded the variety of climates, being the " microclimas ", so looked for by the tourist, one of the characteristics of San Luis' county, being the better known one the one of Merlo.
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Temperature half annual: 17°C
winter Stocking: 12,6°C,
mediates summer: 22,8°C
Rains, abundant in spring, summer and autumn principles. I subtract of the year, scarce. |
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It is the Capital of San Luis' county, it is to
711 msnm at a distance of 835 km of Buenos
Aires,
457
km of Córdoba
and 264 km of Mendoza.
Their privileged one
geographical location transforms it into an important factor
of regional intercomunicación.
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This City lives moments of constant transformation,
however, he/she enjoys the tranquility of the towns of the one
interior: old large houses colonial, shady patios and
gentle life where the time passes slowly.
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It contrasts with the rural mountains of the National Park
Sierras
de Las Quijadas, and with the peculiar ones
rocky formations of the Sierra of the Muzzle, where a
superb volcanic crater of 4 km is erected as the colossus
main character of San Luis.
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Merlo
and their circuits:
Circuit to the south: Towns of the coast of the Comechingones - it is an offer of calm tourism that connects small towns, picturesque and gentle, together with the beauty of the western hillside of the Sierra of the Comechingones |
| Hill of Gold, Carpentry, The Molles, Villa Elena, Cortaderas, Villa Larca, Papagayos,
Villa of the Carmen. |
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How to Arrive?
Airplane. From Buenos
Aires to San
Luis, for Austral, Argentinean airlines or LIMPET. Flights with scales from the main cities of the country.
Bus. From the Capital
Federal
a San
Luis, Merlo and Villa Mercedes,
for TAC, Jocoli, Autotransporte
San Juan, others. In auto. For RN 7 - Their privileged location connects it with the main Argentinean
capitals.
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Map of the County
of San Luis
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| This city located to 890 msnm, to 193 km of San Luis,
to 890km. of Buenos
Aires and 486km. of Córdoba,
it conserves intact the charms of small and dreamy summer village. This characteristic and a pleasant microclima transform it into a tourist pole appreciated by a lot of people. |
According to their microclima it occupies the 3er. place in the world (1º Switzerland, 2º California). The historical heart is an austere Jesuit chapel of thick adobe walls and solid steeple dedicated to the Rosario's Virgin.
The picturesque area, of which Merlo constitutes the tourist axis for its robust vitality, expands year after year as its excellences are appreciated and diffused for who have visited him. |
| Some of the streams that furrow it that go down of the mountain from Comechingones to the valley of Conlara are: The Calera, The Mill, Juan Pérez, The Tiger, Piedra Blanca (that marks the limit among San Luis and
Córdoba) |
| It is an exceptional area for their landscape, for their sun, for their fragrant grasses and plants and for their mentioned microlima. |
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Actividades
to
carry out in
San
Luis: |
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trekking and
cavalcades for the mountain and the National Park Sierra of
the Jaws, Fishes and Nautical Sports in the rivers and
reservoirs of the region, buceo.
Rest in the thermal centers of Pail and San Jerónimo,
Casinos in Merlo and Potrero
de los Funes.
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| Visits
in the city Capital |
The
Plaza Pringles,
the National School Juan Crisóstomo Lafinur and
the Normal School of Girls,
they are tourist places worthy of being visited,
as well as
The Cathedral,
the Plaza Independencia, surrounded by Sacred
Domingo's Convent,
Government's House and the Rail Station. |
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| Loadging: |
Festivities: |
Walks
and Trips: |
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In the Capital
we can find a hotel
of 4 stars, 5 hotels of three stars, and two hotels of 2
stars.
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Potrero
de los Funes
we have a hotel 4
stars and modern hostels |
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Merlo,
four hotels 3 stars,
comfortable hostels and complex tourist |
| Other
lodgings in: Carolina,
Concarán, El
Volcán, La
Toma, Renca,
San Francisco del Monte de Oro, Santa Rosa del Conlara, Trapiche
and Villa Mercedes |
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| Merlo |
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The Mr. of Lame
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Party of the Chivito Puntano
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Party of the Sweetness
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Party of the Confectionery
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Handmade party
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Party of the Rosa
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San Luis of the
Tip
of the Hill of those
Two Deer
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| La
Toma
National capital of the onyx, with their shops in those
that one works a great variety of stones handmadely |
| Termas
de San Jerónimo, Termas
de Balde
One of the wells surgentes of
water mineral of exceptional quality that is used also to
arise to a temperature that is about the 42°C, for a
great quantity of people to take thermal bathrooms, is to
35 km of San Luis, toward the west, with municipal
infrastructure, camping site, restaurant and lodging. To
few kilometers of there, they meet the Thermal baths of
San Jerónimo with same healing properties.
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Where the Nature made a pause so that you the enjoyment
during the whole year
Hotel and Casino of great level to 14 km of the Capital
city
mountains, lakes, green, ecology, vegetation and exception
climate, ideal for the fishing and the nautical sports
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RENCA
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One
of San Luis' older populations. 200 residents
hardly inhabit the village contained around the
modest church that May 3 congregate to pilgrims'
thousands and promesantes that converge to the
party in honor of the Mr. of Lame and of the
Cristo Yacente's Virgin. It is from beginnings of
the XVIII century, the religious center of the
county.
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| RINCÓN
DE PAPAGAYOS |
| Beautiful
forests of palms caranday that confer a
distinction touch to the landscape. These palms
don't have more than 6 meters of high. |
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SIERRA
DE LAS QUIJADAS
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Also
call Small Canyon of the Colorado
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Geólogos, archaeologists, paleontologists have found beds of rivers, fossil vegetables and fossilized prints of pterosaurios (flying dinosaurs) that makes suppose that it exists an important location of that species there and possibly of other more ones.
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PINTURAS
RUPESTRES
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They highlight 5 defined styles. Besides those of Intihuasi, they offer another style in The Marsh, Tilisarao, Sololosta and a last style, that of Conlara. Geometric representations, of form or human appearances and of animals, they have been in locations of the North, as San Asleep and San Felipe
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EL
TRAPICHE
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The most traditional in the villages summer, beautiful houses of rest, several bridges peatonales on the river, spa with spits. All rest
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EL
VOLCAN
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It is a summer, very pleasing tranquilla village their river of shady margins. He/she has camping site, what indicates that it is a place frequented outdoors by the lovers of life.
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| SALINAS
DEL BEBEDERO |
| From San Luis, to 17 km to the south, they are the Salines of the Drinking trough, Lagoon of salubrious waters that becomes an incredible white desert in winter time. |
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La
Carolina
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To 80 km of
San Luis, next to the Cerro Tomolasta,
some become obstinate searchers of gold evidence
that
that fever has not ceased.
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Embalse
La Florida
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To 45 km of San Luis' city, next to the Big river,
the Trapiche and the birth of the river Fifth rose the one
Dike The Florida
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The true creation of a new landscape that took place
the presence of that great mirror of water gave origin to the
Villa of the Florida
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It favors a constant half temperature the whole year,
you dilute crystalline, harmonious lomadas and you lower
serranías that compose a beautiful landscape.
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He/she has settled down the Reserva Florofaunística there the
Florida, dedicated to investigate and to protect those
different species of the flora and of the fauna
provincial.
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Protected Natural areas
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Sierra of the Jaws - Florofaunística Reserves The
Florida - Sierra of the Comechingones and Parrots -
National park Quebracho of the League - he/she Reserves
Provincial Sierra of San Luis - Provincial Park
Caldenes Puntanos
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GRUTA
DE INTIHUASI (marries of the Sun)
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Next to the Cerro Sololosta, there are vestiges of cultures
prehistoric that they prove that it was the man's home
more than 8.000 years ago
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Villa
de Merlo
To live the nature with all the senses
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Located in the end NE of San Luis' county, the center of the village of Merlo is built to 850 mts. on the level of the sea. To the foot of the mountain of the Comechingones, their very taken care urbanization climbs toward the same one reaching the 1200 mts., in a mark of imposing mountains with varied tonalities, crystalline streams, fresh cascades and the most transparent natural piletas. With a population that doesn't overcome the 13.000 inhabitants, Merlo has been constituted in the main tourist pole of the county. To their prodigious nature, with rich and varied flora species and fauna, sink a combined cash of services with lodging options for all the likes, a varied gastronomy, experts guides for all type of trips and a very taken care production of crafts and regional products.
Merlo and their magic
A clear sensation of well-being you begins to feel little of arriving. Merlo has the strange privilege of possessing the third microclima of the world, this is because it has a high degree of ionization negative, excellent azonización level and abundant formation of I oxidize nitrous in good proportion, taken place by the particular conformation of the mountains (granite-anfibol). In Merlo the ozone that takes place naturally, contains three oxygen atoms -one more than the normal thing - being constituted this way in a camera natural hiperbórica.
This energizante sensation of physical and spiritual well-being transforms Merlo into a pleasant antidote against the urban estrés. With a half temperature of 20ºC, low humidity and 300 days of sun per year, the microclima merlino is disfrutable in the cuatros stations.
Amusement for all the ages
Besides the conventional trips, Merlo offers different forms of being integrated to its nature; trekking, cavalcades, guided observation of birds, photographic safaris and walks in 4x4, they are the alternatives preferred by the families. Deport as airplane modeling, mountain bike, aladeltismo and parapentismo are actively practiced in the Villa, for those that you/they like of the strong emotions. In the region to few kilometers of Merlo, it can also train the fishing of varied species like pejerreyes and trouts.
Nature and comfort
Who Merlo doesn't know difficultly it imagines that after a day among sachacabras, foxes red huronsitos, condors and Moorish eagles, appreciating the immensity of the mountain panorama, with its valleys and molles mounts, prunings and locusts one can enjoy a comfortable rest in an excellent Hotel, one characterized Inn or a comfortable Apart, not without before to listen live music in Montana. |
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