Mendoza, Cultual Capital. This is a pleasant city with clean, tree-lined streets and 500 Km of irrigation channels. An active cultural life revolves around its universities, theatres, museums and art galleries.

Mendoza and its suroundings are known as Argentina's wine yard. This region produces most of the country's wines.... Concagua, "The Stone Sentinel". From Valle de los Horcones you can admire the south-east face of 6,959 m high mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in the whole western hemisphere. Further north you come to the statue of the Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) which marks the pass Paso de la Cumbre, and the tunnel that leads into Chile.

Other places of interest: San Rafael, economic capital of southern Mendoza, and the Cañón del Río Atuel; Malargüe and Cueva de las Brujas (Witches' Cave); Laguna de Llancanelo and the volcanic region of Payún Matrú; Uspallata and Puente del Inca (Inca Bridge); Tunuyán and Tupungato.