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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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