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Humility and Patience" made by an artist from Salta, Cassina Colo. Creole is a replica of a Spanish Christ. It is a seated Christ, with hair and blackened beard and wearing an expression that really impresses. Contemplation invites us to be more humane and pious. But missing element to complete the one-off spectacle offered by the Amphitheater "Los Colorados". Two condors appeared (maybe a couple) who initiated a prodigious ballet on the stage of multicolored hills. Disappeared behind a hill and reappear in unexpected places in a dance endless. All this without flapping their wings, using only variations of the updrafts and downdrafts, with a mastery of aviation experts. Sometimes they perch on the high peaks but then resumed his ballet in the red stage. Something not be forgotten!
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accommodation, excursions to heritage places, hot springs, and horseback riding among others. On the farm is located one of the oldest churches throughout the Valley
Calchaquí dating from 1780, restored back in 1969 by the current owners. It is worth visiting this place both for the incredible scenery as well as by its customs and its people.
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Village" adobe house, with streets that are no longer dirt and stone leaving behind part of the history of
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Angastaco is located in the middle mountains in a valley, crossed by the river of the same name, which crosses near the village after its source in Pucara, pouring its waters into the river below
Calchaquí. This is striking, the contrast between the lush green crops and the sandy soil of the valleys.
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Finca El Carmen, rural residence, 8 km (5 mi) away in a northerly direction along the road to Cachi
National Route 40, a fertile valley nestled between the mountains and continues with the particular characteristics of the stream of arrows. They develop farming and rural tourism, such as
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Angastaco a few miles to the west. It's something really worth knowing, but the access road is not for the tourist value of the place. It is impossible to describe in detail the topography. It takes photographed or filmed. It is a huge natural amphitheater surrounded by multicolored
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The town itself has a beautiful Inn, with a Civic Center with a small archaeological museum, with the Church that is projected onto a corner square with their crafts, with their regional wines and "Pater", with its incomparable perfume mistela .
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Municipality of Angastaco between the years 1976–1979. The architect of this building was the William Lee. The church was opened on 8 December 1979 by Monsignor Diego Gutierrez Pedraza,
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