Better known as the region of the high peaks, its geography is made of snowy volcanoes and vast roads that spread from the Andes and the lower parts of the highlands to the plain of the steppes.
The so-called “Moon Valley”, in the province of San Juan is a palaeontology site full of amazing shapes and colours and a landscape formed through million years of erosion.
La Rioja, its neighbour province, offers the canyon of the Talampaya River, which astonishes the visitors with the multifarious folds of its high and reddish walls. The region receives from its peaks three important rivers (San Juan, Mendoza and Tunuyán rivers) which make an oasis that has been transforming in a region of outstanding grapevine production and that nowadays has a singular route of wine, internationally recognized and known.