World Heritage Sites in Argentina

Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas (Argentina) The Editor Wed, 10/17/2018 - 13:30
Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas (a World Heritage site) contains an assemblage of cave art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago. The people responsible for the paintings may have been the ancestors of the historic hunter-gatherer communities of Patagonia.

Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis, World Heritage Site (Argentina, Brazil)

The ruins of São Miguel das Missões in Brazil and those of San Ignacio Miní, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa María la Mayor in Argentina, lie at the heart of a tropical forest. They are the remains of five Jesuit missions, built in the land of the Guaranis during the 17th and 18th centuries.