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• The area of the ‘Angostura’ (narrowness), where it
is the building of National Parks, the Regional Historical Museum and
the two jetties: one on the bay Brava and another on the bay Mansa (Puerto
Angostura), from where they leave the lacustrine trips to the Forest of
arrayanes. This “narrowness” is the entrance to the peninsula
Quetrihué, National Park Los Arrayanes in whose south end is the
aforementioned forest.
• The Messidor. Small castle of French style built in 1942 by the
architect Alejandro Bustillo, on a property of 36 hectares in the coast
of the bay Mansa. In 1964 this castle becomes property of the Neuquén
province to be official residence of the provincial government. There
presidents, diplomats and important men from all over the world have lodged.
• The miradors of the peninsula Quetrihué. In the entrance
of the National Park Los Arrayanes we meet with two paths. If we take
the stepped of the right, after half hour we will arrive to the Mirador
Arrayán from where we can observe the lake Nahuel Huapi with the
arms Machete, Rincón and Ultima Esperanza; the bay Brava, the island
Fray Menéndez and the mountainous cord that separates us of Chile.
Recapturing the path toward the left we arrive to the miradors Messidor
I and II from where we can see the bay Mansa, tourist cabins and parts
of the castle Messidor. The vegetation that dominates this walk is the
big coihues, lauras maquis, climbings like the ‘mutisia reina’
of orange color or the ‘mutisia virreina’ of violet color
and orchids. We will also be able to listen varied sound songs of birds
like the chucao, ratonera, rayaditos and southern parrots.
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To both places you arrive by the same road. Leaving from the Direction
of Tourism building toward the west, after 1,200 meters takes the street
Cacique Antriao to travel 1 kilometer more until arriving to the ascent
road. 1,700 meters ahead there is a bifurcation: if we take to the left
we arrive to the mirador Belvedere from where we can observe the lake
Correntoso, the river Correntoso, 3 arms of the lake Nahuel Huapi, the
hotel Correntoso and to the bottom the mountain range of the Andes. If
we take to the right, it begins the path that takes us to the cascade
Inacayal 50 meters high after some minutes. The stream Las Piedritas formed
by thaw water, it is the course of water that gives origin to the cascade
in whose canyon rocky formations can be appreciated with a glacier erosive
process in its beginnings that then gave step to the fluvial erosion that
gave him the V shape.
Leave from Villa La Angostura toward Bariloche, after 3 kilometers take
the rubble road to the left that ascends until the base of the hill Bayo
and stop after traveling other 5 kilometers where the poster that indicates
the presence of the cascade of the Bonito river is. It is necessary to
travel a path of about 200 meters to arrive to a mirador located exactly
in front of the fall of water 35 meters high on a pot of basaltic rocks
8 diameter meters, among hillsides of hills with a dense vegetation. A
kilometer later on the road arrives to the base of the hill Bayo. This
ski center arises in 1973 of the enthusiasm and several residents' of
the village work. Today it has 2 double tele-seat, 5 tele-ski, 1 T-bar
tele-ski and 2 baby-lifts with a capacity of 4,500 persons/hour; 20 kilometers
of hints and roads and a pub in the intermediate area with an imposing
view on the lake Nahuel Huapi, Villa La Angostura and the mount Tronador.
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