Circus of mountain encloses de.toutes.parts
the town of San El Salvador de Jujuy, brood with 1200m of
altitude. In Jujuy, the myth of European Argentina is difficult
to support. The immense majority of the population of the
province (500.000 H) and the city (220.000 H) is made up of
mongrel of Quechuas and Calchaquis or immigrant Indians of
the high Bolivian valleys. In the campaigns, the habits and
clothing make think more of Bolivia and Peru that in Buenos
Aires.
Jujuy occupied a strategic position at the time of the INCA
empire, and during the colonial time, Jujuy had a role of
relay city for the convoys of mules towards the areas of North,
amongst other things Potosi.
Jujuy does not miss a charm and the travellers who like the
craft industry will have the choice between the ponchos, the
carpets, the "mantas", of wool of spangled and the
objects of copper, of money and of étain.L' Andean
Argentine, almost Bolivian, where the quetchua is still a
language as practised as the Castilian, it is in Quebrada
de Humahuaca, the adjacent valleys which carry out to Puna,
that it is necessary to discover it...
Rare villages in a mineral nature where in the least space
of greenery, appear the herds of spangled, of asses and sheep
kept by motionless Indians, as indifferent to the time which
passes.
The wild beauty makes forget the roughness of this stone desert,
and the peaks of cut out in the sky of an incredible purity.
Tilcara, to 85 km of Jujuy, perched with close to 2500m was
built close to Pucara de Tilcara, a fortress of the INCA time.
Tilcara is the archaeological capital of the province.
