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Must-see attractions in Quebrada de Humahuaca

  • Serranias del Hornocal, wide colored mountains, Argentina; Shutterstock ID 670687489; your: Sloane Tucker; gl: 65050; netsuite: Online Editorial; full: POI
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    Serranía de Hornocal

    Quebrada de Humahuaca

    Located 25km east of Humahuaca, this jagged row of rock 'teeth' offers utterly spectacular colors. Tours run here but it's drivable in a normal car with…

  • Historic adobe church in the little town of Susques, Argentina.

    Iglesia de Susques

    Quebrada de Humahuaca

    Susques is well worth a stop for its terrific village church. Dating from 1598, it has a thatched roof, cactus-wood ceiling and beaten-earth floor, as…

  • ±Ê³Ü³¦²¹°ùá

    Quebrada de Humahuaca

    This reconstructed pre-Columbian fortification is 1km south of Tilcara's center, across an iron bridge. Its location is strategic, commanding the river…

  • La Posta de Hornillos

    Quebrada de Humahuaca

    Part of a chain that ran from Lima to Buenos Aires during viceregal times, La Posta de Hornillos is a beautifully restored staging post 11km south of…

  • Iglesia de Uquía

    Quebrada de Humahuaca

    It’s not often that you imagine the heavenly host armed with muzzle-loading weapons, but in this roadside village’s picturesque 17th-century church that’s…

  • Museo Arqueológico

    Quebrada de Humahuaca

    This well-presented collection of regional artifacts in a striking colonial house has some pieces from the pucará just south of the center. Exhibits offer…

  • Cabildo

    Quebrada de Humahuaca

    The lovable cabildo (municipal building), built in the Spanish Moorish style in the 1940s, is famous for its clock tower, where a life-size figure of San…

  • Monumento a la Independencia

    Quebrada de Humahuaca

    From Humahuaca's plaza, a staircase climbs to the Monumento a la Independencia, a vulgarity produced by local sculptor Ernesto Soto Avendaño. The…