|
|
|
TUORIST
INFORMATION
|
DOWNLOAD
THIS
SITE AS
.PDF FILE
TOURIST INFORMATION
If you wish to make some tours before or after the meetings contact your travel agency or link to Lyon Travel web site at our home page, where you will find many tours opportunities in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
Recommended Links:
www.tierrabuena.com.ar (images from Argentina).
www.turismo.gov.ar (Argentina official site).
Mina Clavero is located in the Traslasierra Valley (elev.
850m) on the western side of the province of Cordoba. The town is 150 km west
from the city of Cordoba and 870 km from the city of Buenos Aires. The city of
Cordoba, one of the main colonial cities of the country, is currently the
second most important industrial center in Argentina. The city´s population
is 1,800,000.
The Sierras
Pampeanas mountain ranges cover one third of the province and are a key
tourist attraction. The primary range is the Sierras Grandes de Cordoba,
located on the eastern side of Mina Clavero.
Traslasierra
Valley is one of the most untouched regions in the Cordoba ranges.
Traslasierra offers a beautiful environment with clear skies, pure air and
native vegetation. Numerable streams descend from the ranges and cross the
valley, forming the rivers Mina Clavero, Rugapampa, Panaholma and Nono. All of
these unit to form the Rio Los Sauces with its huge sand courses, and whose
waters give birth to La Viña dam. Rio Los Sauces partially circles the Subud
Center.
Traslasierra is
very involved in the growing trend of ecotourism. Mina Clavero offers many
tours, horse riding in the ranges, natural swimming pools, hiking, mountain
biking, parasailing, etc.
Different tours that will be offered during the meeting:
Traslasierra is energy, legend, adventure. Between Nov. 15th and Nov. 20th tours will be offered at the meeting site:
1- Pampa de Achala; tour & trecking.
We will drive up reaching an average altitude of about 6000 sq feet over the sea level to reach a natural environment; we scheduled two adventure walks, firstly towards the main waterfall of the Mina Clavero river.
As a second walk we will reach the place named Batan throat , a curious geological formation with small waterfalls and exotic vegetable formations . Next we will visit “The Condor foundation” in order to meet a pioneer of condor conservation activities.
He had built a showroom where he has a full photography display regarding condor breathing and feeding habits as well as others birds and plants of the high pampas.
2- Rocks & waterfalls; exploration trecking.
After we move about seven miles from Mina Clavero we will begin an exploratory trekking of moderate risk visiting water jumps and holes that they have been naturally formed after the main waterfall of “Toro muerto”; we will also visit a group of smaller water jumps named mortar of the foxes and children fall.
3- La Palmita; trecking.
After we drive for about four miles from Mina Clavero, we will begin a slight trekking until we get to a rocky environment with old algarrobos trees (mesquite) . We will cross the junction of the Mina Clavero River and Deep River. Later on we will find a big flying roof of stone and a religious praying place.
4- Canoeing in La Viña Dam
After we drive about ten miles from Mina Clavero we will get to the great dam of the traslasierra region exploring hidden places near the coast. The well known reservoir of this dam has the highest jump of any other one in South America, three hundred feet high.
5- Villa Benegas; surrounding site of potter artisans.
After we drive about five miles from Mina Clavero we will make a short stop in the workshop of a famous potter artisan who works out the clay using his ancestors learned procedures.
A little ahead is located Villa Benegas town, with a population no more than 200 habitants and built houses in stone with a bucolic environment.
6- Wealth of the valley; bike tour.
After we drive about 30 miles from Mina Clavero we will begin a bike tour visiting mountain villages who are located at the bottom of Cerro Champaqui, the highest spot of the state.
We will begin the itinerary along a paved route watching old fashioned residences English colonial style and historical and cultural references all around the town of San Javier, Yacanto and La Población which are points of interest of this bike trip.
Apart from this trips, assistants to the meeting will also have the possibility of enjoying horse ridings and swimming in natural “granite” rock pools of the Mina Clavero River..