El Churcal Museum of Archaeology

Hostal Provincial Los Molinos Abraham Cornejo no number
Tel. 0868-94002

This museum has two exhibition rooms in which lithic and ceramic objects are exhibited. These were discovered in the surrounding area and offer us insight into the civilizations that inhabited the region. There are arrows, axes, decorated vessels and others designed for utilitarian purposes.

Molinos
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.