Ancient and mysterious places in Argentina

🇦🇷 Argentina · Geoglyph

Sierra Pintada Geoglyphs

Late pre-Hispanic Agrelo-Viluco · Huarpe-Pehuenche

30 austral basalt geoglyphs (900-1500 CE) on Sierra Pintada, southernmost Andean desert lines at 37S.

🇦🇷 Argentina · Buried city

Pukará de Tastil — Quebrada del Toro–Rosario Extension (Salta)

Late Intermediate to Inca (c.1250 – 1430 CE) · Atacameno / Tastileño / Inca phase

Tastil's northern Quebrada del Toro–Rosario ridge extension — 400 m double wall, terraced fields and chullpa towers linking two valleys 3340 m.

🇦🇷 Argentina · Ancient city

El Shincal de Quimivil – Southernmost Inca Capital

Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1471–1536 CE, abandoned post-1536) · Inca (Topa Inca – Diaguita / Calchaquí conquest)

Inca provincial capital (1470–1536) in Catamarca, the southernmost planned Inca city in the empire, founded by Topa Inca Yupanqui to govern Calchaquí valley Diaguita conquest: fully orthogonal Inca…

🇦🇷 Argentina · Rock art

Piedra del Águila Petroglyphs (Atuel Canyon)

Middle–Late Holocene (Pampa–Patagonian transition 5000 BCE–1500 CE) · Patagonian–Cuyo hunter-gatherer → Agrelo (Mendoza)

Basalt boulder field (5,000–500 BP) along Atuel River canyon 60 km south of San Rafael, Mendoza: >800 petroglyphs pecked on 3–5 m basalt columns produced by Pleistocene Atuel volcanics, featuring…

🇦🇷 Argentina · Rock art

Cueva de las Manos

Early Holocene to late Patagonia (~9300 BCE – 700 CE) · Patagonian hunter-gatherer (Tehuelche ancestors)

Canyon sandstone cave whose walls retain over 800 negative hand stencils made by spraying pigment through bone pipes around hands, interspersed with guanaco hunts, bola weapons and geometric discs.

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Sierra Pintada Geoglyphs

Carro Quemado Stone-Circle Geoglyphs (Valle de las Pinturas, La Pampa)

Pukará de Tastil — Quebrada del Toro–Rosario Extension (Salta)

El Shincal de Quimivil – Southernmost Inca Capital

Piedra del Águila Petroglyphs (Atuel Canyon)

Cueva de las Manos

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Sierra Pintada Geoglyphs

Carro Quemado Stone-Circle Geoglyphs (Valle de las Pinturas, La Pampa)

Pukará de Tastil — Quebrada del Toro–Rosario Extension (Salta)

El Shincal de Quimivil – Southernmost Inca Capital

Piedra del Águila Petroglyphs (Atuel Canyon)

Cueva de las Manos