Museum and Home of Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Quiroga no number Municipality
Tel. No. 03752-470130
Open Mondays through Sundays from 8 a.m. to 7p.m.

This museum was set up in the home where the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, lived when he arrived in San Ignacio. He fell in love not only with the place but with the surrounding jungle. It was here that he wrote "Stories of love, madness and death" and "Jungle Stories", amongst other books. The house harbors furniture, many photographs, tools, tableware and some hand written papers.

San Ignacio
San Ignacio is 59 km away from Posadas and can be reached down national route No. 12. Its main attraction are the ruins of San Ignacio Miní the best preserved Jesuitical Mission.