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MARTIN DE LOS ANDES: with more than 23,000 inhabitants
it is the town head of the National Park Lanín, one of
the most extensive and beautiful of Argentina. It is summoned
in the oriental end of the lake Lacar, where the glacier valley
passes from the lacustrine mirror to the urban place, typical
mountain town. Born as military outpost in 1898, the identity
of San Martin de los Andes has its roots in the first contacts
that settled down between the indigenous towns and the white
or “huinca” that dominated the region militarily.
Today, this city that was born between military actions, ancestral
traditions of the mapuche population and the permanent work
of the residents, is the main tourist center of the Neuquén
province in an area that offers resources of singular beauty
in the four seasons. From the ski hints of Chapelco hill endowed
with modern infrastructure to enjoy the winter sports to the
formidable show of the autumn in the mountain walks, the nature
and the man has built an exceptional landscape. From San Martin
to Villa La Angostura, distant 110 kilometers toward the south,
expands the beautiful seven lakes road (route #234), no asphalt,
serpentine, that crosses dense forests of enormous trees, mountain
tracts, picturesque streams, hostels and seven lakes in an incomparable
mark.
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