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El Plumerillo Military Camp Area Museum Located
at the intersection of Independencia and Moyano streets El Plumerillo
Located 4.5 km. away from the Northern Access Open air museum This museum is located in an area limited by the Moyano Outlet to the north; the Cacique Guaymallén Canal to the east; Ramo Plumerillo (branch drain) to the south and by Hijuela Zapallar (branch drain) to the west. The limits of the Andes Army training camp were fixed by the military engineer Álvarez Cotidarco. In 1816, San Martín commissioned Brigadier Bernardo O'Higgins to build the barracks for the artillery. The Andes Army started off on its campaign from this site in 1817. The adobe barracks with single low-pitched roofs made of reed, mud and straw occupied between 60 and 70 blocks. These barracks comprised living quarters, kitchens, outhouses, an artillery repair workshop, shooting range and a military camp chapel. When San Martín embarked on his campaign, he ordered the camp to be dismantled as a military strategy and donated everything to the town. The museum has a hall devoted to San Martín and includes a maquette reproducing the entry of the army by sea to Peru. In 1996, the barracks were rebuilt and now harbor pieces of furniture, uniforms and weapons belonging to the Andes Army. A dramatization of military training with period uniforms and weapons is performed the last Sunday of every month. A column of people gets together on the 18th of January, of each year to recreate the beginning of the Andes crossing.
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