Only 122 kilometres away from the city of San Luis, through the beautiful route 147, you’ll reach the sign indicating “Hualtaran”.
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1. The red landscape that transforms itself into rocky peaks, cliffs, erosion pillars, cornices and terraces; meets the geological past, healing spring waters, fossil remains, and a complex world of flora and fauna. |
In front of this sign, the road leading to “Sierra de las Quijadas” (“Jaws Mountain Range”), a rocky formation 120 million years old, with its name given by the important amount of Pterosaurs jaws that were found in its geological formation.
From that geographical spot it is possible to discover the beauty of the space to which the red soil dominating the view gives a special shade; as well as the archaeological discoveries that are marked to the side of the road leading to the heart of the mountain range.
While moving ahead, it is possible to find, half-buried due to the passing of time, some of the old indigenous ovens that have been discovered by the archaeologists.
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2. Declared National Park in the year 1991, invites all sorts of tourists to visit it |
Further ahead, the space open to the curiosity of its visitors where, according to the compilation made by the biologist Silvia Alabama, the fossil remains were found of Pterosaurs that had spread to all the continents in the Jurassic period when they had acquired their main flight capacity.
To go through each of these places where archaeologists have made their findings, is enough reason to visit Hualtaran; a visit that will be complemented by the view of the boulder, named “Giant Turtle”, among others that the imagination of the tourist can name.
The red landscape that transforms itself into rocky peaks, cliffs, erosion pillars, cornices and terraces; meets the geological past, healing spring waters, fossil remains, and a complex world of flora and fauna that escort the visitor to the heart of the mountain range.
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3. An impressive view of Jaws Mountain Range |
Once there, at the very moment of reaching the summit, with the immense red rock wall on the back and an impressive “Potrero de la Aguada” (“Watering Place Pastures”) to the front; with a never-ending view that seems to continue in the infinite; the total sight wrapping the visitor will make him think he is immersed in a reproduction of the Grand Canyon, in the US, while he is actually in the middle of the province of San Luis, in Argentina.
