"Posta de los Hornillos" Historical Museum

Located 2km. away from Maimará down the southern access
Tel. 088-997038
Open Wednesdays through Mondays from 9a. m. to 6p. m.

The bicentenary "Posta de los Hornillos" (Los Hornillos post station) was restored by the Bunge & Born Foundation and turned into a museum in 1979.
Its premises recreate a typical construction of days gone by with particular attention to detail: everything is as it was before: its leafy "yapan" in the entrance, the cozy old house with its adobe walls and clay roofs, the old "churqui", and the traditional oven. Built by the Álvarez Prado family, it was the inevitable post station on the route that joined the Upper Perú with the viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (La Plata River ). It was used as vanguard general headquarters of the independence army. General Belgrano rested here after his victories in Tucumán and Salta and it was also the scene of several battles. It comprises 13 halls in which 18th and 19th century furniture is exhibited in addition to weapons, ethnographic objects and historical documents.

Maimara
This small village is located in the heart of the "Quebrada de Humahuaca", 76km. away from the city of San Salvador de Jujuy and 2,383m. above sea level. It is connected to the city by national route No. 9 which is totally paved. It forms part of the department of Tilcara and its most outstanding feature are its multicolored mountains known as the "painter's palette", a series of folds dating from the Tertiary and Quaternary periods. The first image to appear in sight when approaching Maimará down route No. 9 is a high altitude cemetery.