Things to find in Argentina
4 legends, 1 haunted place, 1 cave, 1 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
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- Argentine rhodochrosite, the Inca Rose Gem & mineral ground
Argentina’s national gemstone is rosa del Inca, banded pink rhodochrosite formed as stalactites in old Inca-era silver workings at Capillitas in Catamarca, and cut across to show concentric rose-pink rings found nowhere else in...
Open it on the map - Cueva de las Manos Legend
Hundreds of hands stencilled onto rock in a Patagonian canyon, overlapping in collages, more than 2,000 of them, made between about 7300 BC and AD 700 across several distinct periods. They were made by holding a hand to the wall...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Cueva de las Manos, Patagonia Cave
Hundreds of human hands stencilled on the rock of a Patagonian canyon, layer over layer, the oldest of them nine thousand years old. The people who made them held a hand flat to the wall and blew pigment through a hollow bone, so...
Open it on the map - Ischigualasto, the Valley of the Moon Legend
Grey and white badlands over 600 square kilometres of San Juan Province, named in a language nobody speaks any more, with one reading of the word being the place where the moon alights. The Ischigualasto Formation covers the Late...
Open it on the map · Read the story - La Recoleta & the Andean dead Haunted place
The Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires is a city of the dead: thousands of marble mausoleums packed along narrow avenues, holding presidents, generals and Eva Peron, whose own body was famously stolen, hidden in Italy for sixteen...
Open it on the map - The Perito Moreno glacier Legend
Until recently this was one of the very few glaciers on Earth roughly in balance, thirty kilometres long and 250 square kilometres of ice, gaining about as much as it lost while almost everything else retreated; since 2020 it has...
Open it on the map · Read the story - The Quebrada de Humahuaca Legend
People have been walking this valley for at least 10,000 years, 155 kilometres of it running north to south through Jujuy, since the first hunter-gatherers came through. The Inca made it a caravan route in the fifteenth century,...
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Each entry links to the record it came from. Access rules, permits and land status vary by country and are noted where the source states them, check locally before you go.
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