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Ruta Cuarenta / ARGENTINA { 53 images } Created 17 Jul 2012

They call it "mythical" this argentinian road that cover Argentina from top to bottom. It was founded in 1935 and seems to be an old lady that want to keep young. Argentina with its long distances, the big country of many conutries is here, along this road that striks the Andes: The Ruta Nacional Cuarenta wich someone comare to the U.S.A route 66.
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  • Like every human being in a wild place, the driver of this long-distance bus on Route Cuarenta in the province of Santa Cruz is a nod to the driver of a vintage car that goes in the opposite direction. The fact that there are interprovincial buses and cars in a desert area so is due to the recent development of tourism. This road Argentine is the longest in the country, founded in 1935, unites him from its northernmost point to its southernmost point, in the bottom of the continent. A reason they call it the mythical, because it crosses the great outdoors and joins the people who live in this nation much the same and so different that is still proving very young.
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  • The La Quiaca's railway station, the northern one of the country. Nowadays, after the Menem's era, it's only one of the various elements, of the national industrial archaeology...
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  • In the main square of Abra Pampa
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  • Leaved La Quiaca, the Ruta Cuarenta for many kilometers is superimposed on the national Nine, but not stop running south for almost 5600 km
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  • The andean camelide is the main resource of Abra Pampa, in the hearby there is INTA (istituto nacional de investigacion agropecuaria) that breed pratically at wild state this animals for obtain the best wool.
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  • Take the Ruta Cuarenta north is a bit 'difficult, many traits are served by dirt roads and few interprovincial bus, from one place to another are always many hours of travel.
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  • Abra Pampa, where it appears the first stretch of Ruta Cuarenta authentic, reflects the desolation of the desert north of the country, was founded in 1883 under the name of Siberia Argentina, the name was changed, but the feeling has remained the same.
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  • Mining center, San Antonio de los Cobres is another place far away from everything, connected to the world only by Ruta Cuarenta and from the road in Chile
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  • Running on ruta cuarenta on the wild northern side
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  • The Quebrada de Humahuaca, relatively close to the cuarenta and Unesco patrimony is experiencing a new tourist development.
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  • Travelling along the cuarenta which runs in the longitudinal valleys Calchaqui.
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  • Native to the area, Gabriela and her husband Claudio works onion fields along the cuarenta in Payogasta, both have not yet thirty years of his life and thy're happy to be farmers.
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  • Evening on the square of Cachi.  The cuarenta is two blocks away.
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  • From Cafayate up almost in Patagonia, the Cuarenta through the Argentine wine region
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  • Descendants of Native Quilmes, a population disappeared centuries ago, these young people run by the eponymous archaeological site also as a guide to passing tourists. For them, the task is both a source of income that reaffirm their cultural identity
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  • Crossing a "baden" near Cayafate, this kind of temporary stream invades the streets like the local part of Cuarenta.
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  • Twilight in the municipal park of Mendoza. Located in the middle of ruta cuarenta, Mendoza is the wine capital of Argentina, a city of water and trees in the middle of the desert in the center of the country.
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  • The route cuarenta near Mendoza turns into highway
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  • The city of Mendoza, the city of trees, is the midpoint of the Cuarenta. for tourism and promotional reasons Mendoza ends Ruta Cuarenta North and South began Ruta Cuarenta, to Patagonia.
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  • Martin comes from the poor neighborhood of Malargue, at the light of the central San Martin, ruta Cuarenta, he invented the profession of clown to make some "peso".
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  • The Cuarenta in the Malargue already assumes the characteristics of the furrow in a large open space
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  • Trout fishing using an handmade  fly bait is  one of the trends of the Patagonian region of lakes
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  • A vaguely alpine style home in Junin de los Andes
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  • Countryside around Junin de los Andes, developed tourist resort thanks to its proximity to the ruta Cuarenta,
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  • In the primary school of the native community El Salitral. They give lessons in Mapuche language because language is crucial to the cultural identity and the younger generations are likely to lose it.
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  • Lake Huechulafquen jewel of the National Park Lanin area Junin de los Andes. The first of the seven Andean lakes that can be reached from rue Cuarenta
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  • Fencing off the land along the Cuarenta near the community Mapuche native El Salitral is a small conquest of the community itself, which feels ancstral ownership of lands, but those do not have the real property.
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  • In the private home of a native Mapuche community of El Salitral, along Ruta Cuarenta into the Patagonian pampa. Belonging from the Chilean side of the Andes are the Mapuche in this area since before the "Conquista del desierto" (The military campaign that annexed the Patagonia Argentina), have passed one hundred and thirty years, and still claim ownership rights to the land where they live. and continue to be unheard ..
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  • Towards the park Arrayanes sailing on Lake Nahuel Huapi. Villa la Angostura.
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  • Along the streets of modern Bariloche appears signs of chocolatiers, another local tradition.
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  • Souvenir photo with St. Bernard, one of the traditions of Bariloche, one of the best-known cities, attractions and close to the popular Ruta Cuarenta
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  • In the museum of Bariloche.
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  • Andrea Tejeiro, is one of the many new residents of the Bolson who engage in creative professions. She cultivates various species of plants the flowers are very colorful, which dries naturally and then use it to craft compositions of all kinds.
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  • Marcelo Garcia Morillo is one of many bonanrenses living in El Bolson, Patagonic "hippy"  town along the Cuarenta. It is dedicated to the historical reconstruction of stringed instruments of the Middle Age such as lutes, harps, fiddles, fiddles, guitars Saracen, etc.. and offers a particular vision of the medieval world through sounds, music and poetry
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  • During a session at the holistic center Casa Isis in  El Bolson, encalve "hippies" of Patagonia crossed by the rue cuarenta.
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  • The Patagonia area Trevelin has a harsh climate, but the Welsh, arrived mid-nineteenth century, have turned it into an area with a strong agricultural presence, wheat and flour are the main products.
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  • Clery Evans and his grandfather JD Welsh and father of Argentine Patagonia in that stretch of which is headed by Trevelin, where the rue Cuarenta becomes more rough.
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  • Winner of 'Eistedoff 2001 (traditional poetry competition in Welsh language) Monica Jones reads some of her new verses in the  sunset light  over the hills of Trevelin.
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  • Welsh tea at Nain Maggie teahouse in Trevelin, Welsh enclave of Patagonia, where the Cuarenta is more rude
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  • A "jineteada Gaucha" during the annual celebration of agriculture in Malargue. Although the area is desert, potato production and sheep and goat farming activities are widespread and profitable
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  • During a rural festival in Trevelin. Welsh enclave along the Cuarenta
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  • During a rural festival in Trevelin. Welsh enclave along the Cuarenta
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  • Ana y Marcos Rios, in the middle of adolescence, with parents run a rudimentary camping in Bajo Caracoles also take care of the kitchen for a casual restaurant nearby. The arrival of tourists has been a godsend for anything in this town built in the nineteenth century at the intersection of Ruta Cuarenta and the way to the Chilean border8
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  • Bajo Caracoles, along the cuarenta, "a cross in the void" as he wrote in the seventies Brice Chatwin in his "In Patagonia". So it has remained.
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  • Along the stretch of the Ruta Cuarenta that connect Bajo Caracoles with Perito Moreno Glacier and El Chalten, running  for 540 km of desolate pampas,  the advertising also 250 km away from the place advertised.
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  • In an ordinary day of bad weather at Lake Argentino, admiring the glacier <br />
Perito Moreno and his melt in the lake
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  • At the beginning of the path Fitz Roy, to go and admire the Cervino of the Andes
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  • On the streets of Rio Gallegos, an outpost of civilization at the end of the South American continent and the Ruta Cuarenta8
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  • English Club at Rio Gallegos
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  • Vaccination of sheep to the estancia Monte Dinero, at the end of  the ruta Cuarenta, behind the beach of Cabo Virgenes.
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  • While Carolina Fenton shows an item of clothing made ​​from the wool of the sheep of his large flock, children and nephews are lost in the screen of the laptop where an internet connection already introduced them to the global village.
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  • The route Cuarenta historical ends on the beach of Cabo de Virgenes, where through the Strait of Magellan waters of the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean mix. For the Magellanic penguins, the only inhabitants of the cold beach, the road continues in the water ...
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