Capital: It jumps (373 857) hab. in the dpto)
Surface: 155 488 km2
Population: 866 771 inhabitants
Density: 5,6 hab. /km2
The population's annual growth: 25,7%
Males' index: 49,8%
Cities: Cafayate, Cachi, Molinos, Iruya
Administrative division: 23 departments
Salta, "The Beautiful One"
Salta is a nice city, full of luxurious churches and exuberant parks. It’s surrounded by green mounts, and the ethnicity of its people is surprisingly different from that of its sister province Jujuy. There is a cable railway that takes you up to the mount where you could see the city from above. Up there there is a beautiful park, full of spiderwebs.We recomend to rent a car and drive the winding road through the mountains, called “La cuesta del Obispo”( see picture below), the slope of the bishop. For the first kilometers, the landscape is breathtaking. After a while, the clouds. Everyone talks about this place. When the mountains gets behind , there is a road called “the straight line of Tin-Tin”, running without curves for kilometers, and at both sides the National Park of the Cardones.You can feel like a roadrunner and a coyote for a few seconds. The landscape, stunning. At the end of the road, a town called Cachi, surrrounded by snowed mounts. Then it comes La Paya , then Chicoana. Diego de Almagro was sent by Pizarro around 1530 to conquer the gold at the South of Peru, and he found this city here. Later he betrayed Pizarro and was killed by him. The ruins at La Paya were proved to be those of Chicoana, but they were neglected and the main road was built over it, and the stones used to build other houses.
It’s amazing to see a whole field filled with red peppers.

Activities in Salta: Tourism of Adventure: To ascend to the snowy ones, Canotaje and Windsurf in the reservoirs, Trekking in the National Parks, Fishes in streams, rivers and reservoirs. Avistaje of Fauna, scientific tourism. Mountaineering. It hunts sport (pumas, foxes) it Hunts bigger in San Ramón of the New Orán

Train to the Clouds
A magnificent engineering work. it is one of the highest railroads in the world, to 4220 msnm. Hung of vertiginous mountains, it goes among the clouds to cross the you Walk. Leaving from Salta, "The Train to the Clouds", imposing work of engineering from the beginning of the XX century is an attraction in itself , an invitation to visit wonderful landscapes that begin with a thick selvatic vegetation and end with the deserted high plain of the Puna, to reach after travelling 214 km. La Polvorilla a winding bridge with no side railings 224 km long and 70 m high above the bed of the river.
The "Train to the Clouds" goes over 29 bridges, 21 tunnels, 13 viaducts and 2 zig-zags, and before returning to Salta, it stops at San Antonio de los Cobres where people sell their products and crafts



National park Those Cardones
Solitary moor that is to so single 3 hs. of the city of it Jumps, to 2700 msnm, it Conjugates in an immensity the figure of the cardones, the heat of the mountains, the immensity of the sky, the yellow of the flowers. Condors, foxes, pumas, vicuñas, keos, huemules, accompanies us
National park Baritu
Located to the northwest of the county of it Jumps, near Iruya, it protects the last haven of the forest subropical mountain or nuboselva, with their characteristic arborescent ferns
In their 72.439 has.y limited by mountainous cords of more than 2000 msnm, the Andean forest grows with incomparable fauna wealth and flora
The Park offers not very habitual encounters in other regions, with animals as tapires, monkeys caíes, pumas, cats ounce, pecaríes, bears of glasses and jaguaretés that allow the photographic hunt
Trekking and mountaineering can be carried out in their mountainous cords with avistaje of real condors, sparrow hawks, eaglets and toucans that hide in the forest that advances for the hillsides of the mountains
National park the Rey
To 190 km of it Jumps, it was created in 1948. The valley is sprinkled in all its extension by smaller and lower lomadas, making it very broken and of difficult traffic, to be completely covered with mount
This property has hostel, camping site, walks and fauna observation, as the yaguareté (American puma) and the elk (American tapir)

Natural reservations
They are three the provincial natural reservations:
The Palmares, Walk Them and Acambuco. Each one presents different varieties of animals and vegetables. It can be carried out trekking, Campamentismo, photographic safaris, birdwatching, cavalcades, voyages, etc.

Aboriginal communities
They are located in the north area of the county and they belong to missions Chiriguanas, Chané, Churupíes, Tufas, Wichi, among others. They maintain intact their customs and traditions, preserving the cultural identity that characterizes them.
Scientific Trips
The territory provincial bill with a wide range of capable places to carry out scientific studies, among them is necessary to highlight the paintings rupestres of the caves of The Meetings, in the town of Guachipas
Trips of paleontological character that allow to recognize and to appreciate the prints of dinosaurs that inhabited 65 million years ago approximately the area of the Valley of the Tonco, also exist only in the world due to their location in vertical position.

Circuits
This traditional tourist circuit offers multiple attractiveness, so much for its different landscapes, like for the architecture of its towns. Cachi, Cafayate, Molinos, Coronel Moldes

Rosario de la Frontera
Located to 174 km of it Jumps they are the Thermal baths of Rosario de la Frontera,,
whose fame our frontier transcended. This center has a hotel allowing to take advantage of the therapeutic benefits of the wate
Cachi
It is a picturesque town that conserves old large houses aligned on narrow streets, surrounded of plantations of red peppers, drying off in the sun that you/they give him a special touch.
In front of the colonial square the temple of half-filled of the XVIII century gives him its characteristic mark completed with the recova of the Anthropological Museum, located to 157 km of Salta

Molinos
He/she is a mountain population located to 206 km of it Jumps, been founded by the middle of the XVII century.
Their layout is irregular, with adobe houses and earth roofs, with galleries and piazzas. He/she stands out the parochial church, historical monument, built in 1639

Cabra Corral
Dam artificial of 115 km2, he/she is practiced fishing that is abundant and they are carried out nautical sports.
In their banks numerous clubs exist, restaurants, places of rest and they are carried out trips in Catamarán and other crafts.
It is to 90 km of the city of it Jumps, happening for Coronel Moldes to 59 km of Salta

Cafayate
Flanked by rivers and inside a belt of vineyards, he/she runs off with Cafayate with their houses of a plant between colonial and Baroque of the end of the XIX century. To 183 km of Salta

Iruya
To 307 km of it Jumps. Dream town of the located Argentinean north to 2780 msnm. Their streets of narrow and sheer stones, conserve ingrained their most ancestral customs, on of manifesto in their different festivities and rituals.

Puna
It is a wide region of the West salteño, located to more than 3000 msnm, framed by the Mountain range of you Walk them, Their stony floor and the scarce vegetation make of her a very difficult area for the human life. Trekking is practiced in the Puna, in the mountains of the Big Grasses, in the snowy ones of Chañi and Cachi.
Andean refuges don't exist in the area, but yes, there are in many cases, mining camps and seats or villagers' positions

Santa Rosa de Tastil
Today archaeological location, one of the main prehispanic urban centers is considered where they are impressive archaeological ruins, there their marks artists and aboriginal sages left that allow to imagine their form of life in silence, beliefs, social organization and very bound rites to the Madre Tierra"

Quebrada de Humahuaca
From San Salvador de Jujuy to La Quiaca, on the border with Bolivia, the Quebrada de Humahuaca, which is 170 km long, invites us to a trip where time seems to have gone still, where the Indian cultures live together with the legacy of the Spanish conquest, where each church, each house and each small town are real works of art that have been preserved intact for 2 centuries.
Multicolour mountains that contrast with the arid landscape, big cactuses that surround the old Inca fortresses in Pucará and Tilcara, while small colonial towns sprinkle the polichromatic landscape of the Puna.

Valles Calchaquìes
Covering 550 km leaving from Salta the Valles Calchaquìes are an invitation to a magical trip that begins with a multicolour landscape sprinkled with different tones of cultivated lands and continues, as we go up turning into a beautiful gap where the eolic erosion has carved infinite silhouettes in the reddish rocks that resembles a moom like landscape.
The visitor wil come across Indian cementeries, caves with rupestrian paintings, colonial towns and Jesuitic ruins that date from the XVI century. In this mountain landscape with rivers and vineyards at the sides, rises the Cafayate, famous for its centenial wine cellars many of which still make the wines like craftsmen.

Regional culinary specialties
Tulpo charqui (maize and jerked meat soup), choclo con queso (corn with cheese), mazamorra (sweetish maize soup), humita (fresh ground corn), tamales, carbonada (beef and fruit stew), queso de patas (feet and meat cheese), ambrosia (similar to creme caramel), empanadas (filled pasties), quesillo con miel de cana (cheese with cane syrup), dulce de cayote (Malabar gourd conserve) and turrón (nougat bar).

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