SAN MARTIN DE LOS ANDES | THE PLACE

San Martín de los Andes is much more than one of the central tourist destinations in Patagonia, with some of the region's best services offer. As a community that is sensitive about its surroundings, this town's adminitration serves as a model for others and for the nature.

Is called "Tourist capital of the Neuquén Region", has a feature that distinguishes it among other tourist towns in the region: it is, as well as the town El Bolsón, completely nestled in its landscape, so hidden that the view form above is more beautiful than its panoramic views, except fot the postcard image from the short eastern shore of Lake Lácar ("hunchback" in mapuche), a freshwater fiord between steep hillsides.

Such marked seclusion gives San Martín de los Andes a feeling of quiet self-containment, with late sunrises and early sunsets. Downtown is set on a modest-sized flatland along the lakeshore that lies at the end of a narrow valley that was carved by the Pocahullo Creek ("place for seagulls" in mapuche).

The hills with the forested hillsides to the north and south that are separated by some ten strets, len and intimate and limited feeling to the town's central area. As further described below, the Bandurrias Lookout.

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Perito Moreno 1370
San Martín de los Andes / Neuquén / Argentina

View of the lakes and the beauty

San Martín de los Andes