San Rafael

San Rafael department is located in Mendoza province. It has 31.235 km² and 350.000 habitants, it limited with San Carlos, Santa Rosa and La Paz (In the north), Gral. Alvear (in the south-east), Malargüe (in the south), and Chile (in the west).
It has some important rivers, for example: Diamante river and Atuel river. The weather is tempered, with hot summers and cold winters.
San Rafael has been growing, now it surface is full of new houses and stores. It has many places for tourists, for entretainment, food, etc., we are going to mention them in our blog:

lunes, 31 de mayo de 2010

Places to visit outside the city






  • Cañón del Atuel: It is a circuit, rounding the mountains, were you can do adventureous sports or do it by car in the route.
  • Dique Los Reyunos
  • El Nihuil
  • Laguna del Diamante
These places, are artificial or natural lakes, that come from Atuel river, there you can rent or buy a cottage, go camping, and as they are near the city you can go just to spend a day, and do actvities in the lake, like go cannoeing, rent boats, kayacks, jet skis, windsurfing or just swim in the lake. Allthough you can do sports on land, for example, go walking, go on motorbikes, go on bikes, four cicles, cars, etc.
  • Rio Atuel y Valle Grande
Río Atuel, is across Valle Grande, this place is located between the mountains, and just 45 minutes far from the city, in this place you can do a lot kind of sports, there are different centres along the route were you can do: Rafting, Cool River, kayacking, etc. In the mountains of Valle Grande you can do zip, rappeling, rock climbing, trekking, etc.
In the route you can find cottages and places were you can camp.

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