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Molinos
lies 206km. away from the city of Salta and can be reached
by taking provincial route No. 33 and then switching to national
route No. 40. It is situated 116km. away from Cafayate and
92km. away from San Carlos.
It is a mountain town in the Calchaquí Valleys that was founded
towards the middle of the 17th century at the confluence of
the rivers Humanao and Luracatao that form the "Mill" (Molinos:
Mills). Its layout is irregular, with adobe houses, dirt roofs,
galleries and porticoes. One of its noteworthy features is
its parish church which was built in 1639 and shelters the
mummified remains of the last royalist governor Nicolás Severo
de Isasmendi. Eight kilometers away lie the Indian ruins of
the Chicoana tribe dating back to pre-Hispanic times.
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