Cueva De Las Manos Trekking

After the pick up from your hotel, we begin the tour by route 40, sightseeing a great quantity of native fauna. After a few stops at panoramic points and crossing the Caracoles Canyon, we arrive at the Visitors` Center and the Cueva de las Manos Interpretation Center. 

Once there and following the traces of our ancestors, we will start a trekking inside the Pinturas River Canyon to appreciate different caves and eaves with a great variety of cave paintings, hands in positive and negative, animals and symbols in a great level of conservation. 

On the way back, a refreshing lunch will be waiting for us. 

On our way back to Los Antiguos we will explore Caracoles Canyon to understand its origin and, if we are lucky, spot a condor in flight. Our last trek will be to the "Tierras de Colores" (Land of Colors), an ideal place for photography for its great scenic beauty and source of raw material for the rupestrian art of the region.

TREK PLUS OPTION: For trekking enthusiasts, we will consider the possibility of arriving at the Visitors Center with an additional trek of 5km.

Cultural information about Cueva de las Manos: The Cueva de las Manos is an archaeological site and cave paintings that is located in the deep canyon of the Pinturas River, 88 meters high, in the Estancia Cueva de las Manos between the towns of Perito Moreno and Bajo Caracoles in the Lago department Buenos Aires, to the Northwest in the Province of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina. The cave is 20 meters deep, 10 meters high and 15 meters wide, it is difficult to access. Although in its interior were found, in addition to lithic material vestiges, stoves with remains, and also bones and animal skins that were the basis of subsistence, in this archaeological site the complexity of rock art stands out, which allows us to understand how they lived societies of the past. His interest lies in the beauty of the cave paintings, as well as in their great antiquity: until now, the oldest inscriptions are dated 7350 a. C. It is one of the oldest artistic expressions of the South American peoples, it has been designated a National Historic Monument and declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco.