- Off-the-beaten-path destinations like Cueva de las Manos in Argentine Patagonia give us a chance to engage with purposeful travel.
- 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.
- In conclusion, the Cueva de la Manos is the best-preserved and most spectacular rock art site I've visited to date.
- La Cueva de las Manos, or the Cave of Hands, looks out over a lush and narrow valley that the Rio Pinturas has carved through the terrain.
- The Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, contains an exceptional assemblage of cave art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago.
- Some of these people eventually arrived at Monte Verde, directly west over the spine of the Andes from Cuevas de las Manos 12,500 to 14,500 years ago.
- In fact, the Cueva de Las Manos is not one, it consists of several caves located in the valley of the river Pinturas.
- Quite by accident, in 1941, a simply unique cave was discovered in Argentina, which was called Cueva de las Manos, which in translation sounds nothing more than.
- Cueva de los Manos. “This is the bit where everyone likes to take photos,” my guide tells me as she points to the hands on the cave wall.
- The most famous of them are images of hands, hence the name: "Cueva de las Manos" - "Cave of Hands" in Spanish.