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San Martín de los Andes is a picturesque hamlet located in the south-west of the province of Neuquén, framed in a privileged and lovely place: National Park ¨Lanín¨, which is surrounded by forests and hills and the Lácar lake. The valley called ¨Valle de los Dioses¨ by the aborigines who lived there, is waiting for you to be discovered
San Martín de los Andes was founded on February 4th, 1898, on a territory owned by the Mapuche community called¨Curruhuinca¨. Nowadays, over a hundred years later, the city still keeps up its traditional mountain features, where the inhabitants have collaborated to keep a balance between urban development- specially the architecture- and natural environment using characteristic materials like stones and wood, essential in this scenery of fairy tales and elfs.
At present, this wonderful hamlet in the mountain range of Los Andes has a population of about 22.432 inhabitants. The economy development is based basically on the tourist activity. It is the main city and the place where most services are offered in the National Park ¨Lanín¨, it is the largest of the province and the head of its quartermaster corps. San Martín de los Andes is a tourist center of international excellence that you can visit all the year round. Hills, rivers, streams, waterfalls, native forests and lakes that offer the tourist its noble nature to venture in several amazing activities
You can enjoy the hospitality of the mountain spirit in each of the offered services: hotels, alpine chalets, hostels, shopping centers, pubs, tearooms and restaurants where you can taste delicious deeds, wild boars, trouts, berries, chocolates or homemade marmalade. San Martín de los Andes is the Valley of Gods (Valle de los Dioses): Know it and enjoy it in person
San Martín de los Andes is the starting point chosen by many tourists for going through the lakes zone. It is located at one of the extremes of the road skirting seven lakes (Camino de los Siete Lagos) that joins this town with the town of Villa la Angostura, being one of the most fascinating journeys due to the beauty of the zone.
You can enjoy several sightseeing trips throughout the city and its outskirts, that include a journey along the Lacar lake, museums, historical buildings, tearooms, and cinemas. These are some of the options that the tourists can choose all the year round.
There are also several circular tours and paths along the hill roads, where you can find view points from where you can appreciate the magnificence of the Lacar lake, amazing waterfalls, and centennial forests.Villa Quila Quina, Lolog lake, and the Hot Springs of Epulafquen are other places really worth to be visited. | |
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