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El Acay
Much color , texture combination,
and an excess of creativity dedicated to what is different and to the quality,
with a touch of glamour.
Exclusive design - Piece of clothing manufactured with
the best raw material of the Argentine Puna.
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Argentine Puna |
Located in the region of the Cordillera
de los Andes, in the northwest of the Argentine
Republic, the Puna is the depopulated Earth site
more, but also one of most enigmatic and surprusing.
Nailed between the 3500 and 4500
meters on the level of the sea, it represents the most virgin zone of the
northwest of the
The Argentine puna
characterizes by its volcanic morpholgy that show
numerous cones of more than 6000 m.s.of height, with
depressions that conform river basins closed with lagoons and salines.
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Its climate is rigorous, cold and
dry, with minimun temperatures below 0º C, a daily
thermal amplitude that 30º surpasses and inferior precipitations to 200 anual mm.
The human activity is primitive and
takes the sign of the time. It predominates the pasturing of llamas and sheeps, as well as the spinning and weave of his wools.
The culture of their small
communities surprises by their high ritual content and symbolic value. Like in
the ancients times, every year communitarian ceremonies dedicated to the Pachamama Goddess (mother earth) are repeated, and also
have social importance indicated of the animals and Carnival.
The puna
offers a many-sided landscape. Fields of lava and hills with
dunes attract the lovers of the sport tourism, 4 x 4, motocross and
mountain-bike. The practice of the alpinism and the survival, defy to
the tips of the Nevado de El Acay, among others.
Also it is possible to make safaris
and to obtain photographies of pink flamenco,
vicuñas, suris, gallaretas
and other species characteristic of his fauna. As singular
attractive stands out the deep-sea fishing, with the guarantee to obtain great
units of trouts.
In order to visit this place is
necessary walk great and extensive regions through in which the geography of puna is plenary session.