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Luis Benedetti Archaeological Museum

This museum has a single hall devoted to the region's archaeology. Exhibits include mummies, Indian skulls discovered in the surrounding area, funerary urns, arrowheads, necklace beads, ceremonial pipes, stone axes, wooden spindles and grinding stones. The museum operates in a circular building and a of stone with a coneshaped roof made of reeds and clay.
It was originally a school collection started up by the headmistress of the Escuela Antártica Argentina (Argentine Artarctic School) that eventually became a municipal museum.

Angualasto
Angualasto lies 216km. away from the city of San Juan and belongs to the department of Iglesia. To get there one must take national route No.40 up to San José de Jáchal. One must then carry on along provincial route No.150 up to the town of Rodeo, distant 45km. from Jáchal, until one reaches provincial route No.424, a consolidated dirt road, on which Angualasto is located. The area is surrounded by multiform hills concealing Indian mysteries in every nook and cranny.

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