• Every February the nearby town of Moreno hosts a celebration in honor of the caves[4][90] called Festival Folklórico Cueva de las Manos.[91].
  • Cueva de las Manos is located in the extreme northwest of the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina and can only be reached by National Highway 40.
  • Although the Cueva de las Manos is the most important site, there are also comparable paintings in other caves and on rock faces in the gorge.
  • It is located at a height of 88 meters, in Estancia Cueva de las Manos, between the towns of Perito Moreno and Bajo Caracoles, Lago Buenos Aires department.
  • The rock art of Cueva de las Manos exists in five concentrations, with later figures and motifs often superimposed upon those from earlier periods.
  • Cueva de las Manos, or Cave of Hands, is an archaeological site in Argentina famous for its prehistoric cave art.
  • In 1964, professor of archeology Carlos Gradin conducted research here and made Cueva de las Manos famous all over the world.
  • Off-the-beaten-path destinations like Cueva de las Manos in Argentine Patagonia give us a chance to engage with purposeful travel.
  • The most famous of them are images of hands, hence the name: "Cueva de las Manos" - "Cave of Hands" in Spanish.
  • The Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, contains an exceptional assemblage of cave art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago.