One of the most beautiful sites of the planet to cross is the zone of high mountain. In the province of Mendoza, Argentina, the region of Uspallata in the department of the Heras, knows it like circuit of high mountain. To say that it is an extremely colorful area, would be to underestimate it. In this region they are great amount of of testimonies of the American native towns, of the life in the Spanish colony, and of the passage of general Jose of San Martin. Doubtless their vacations in will take it to Mendoza to know a place where the past and the present seems to walk of the hand to each step. Uspallata was not only one of the trasandinos steps more habitual of the last century, before they constructed to the routes and the trasandinos tunnels, the place through where any traveller that wanted to happen towards the Chilean region had to happen.
One of the things that frighten more in Uspallata is the denominated Vaults. One is a construction of the time of the colony, constructed in century XVIII by the mining Jesuits. In the place great amount existed of iron mines, gold, silver and zinc, those that at the moment estan left. These vaults, that resemble a strange Greek orthodox temple or a planetarium, are conserved very well. In fact, it was the site chosen by general Jose of San Martin to store provisions and like operations center.
The first bullets of tube of the army of liberation were fused in this site, by fray Luis Beltrn. Closely together is there the Tunduqueral Hill. This site, where it is possible to be breathed I haul of mystery and magic, used to be used by the women of the tribe Inca to realise feminine ritual strangers the days of Full Moon. Glifos, that is to say inscriptions in the stone can be observed, testimony of the passage of this civilization. It is very common to see in the zone of Uspallata constructions of vaulted ceiling, typical of the place. The same were done by Ambrosio Or higgins between years 1765 and 1770. The reason for its construction went to give lodging to the payable followers of general Jose of San Martin after the Rancagua defeat. These constructions are unique since similar cases in no other side of the world do not exist. If he really wants to enjoy a full place of magic and enchantment, he agrees to reserve a hotel to him in Mendoza near the zone, to be able to make the trips will take that it by mythical places, by where the Inca used to walk.