TOURISM IN PUTRE

Putre (Aymara: puxtiri 'murmur of water, river sound') is a village and commune capital of the Parinacota Province in the Region of Arica and Parinacota, northern Chile.

In the village you can make the best tourism tours to know Putre and its surrounding area, making tours, Trekking, Ice Climbing, Expeditions, Climbing, Horseback riding, hiking and much more ... We invite you to visit this beautiful community.

Putre puxturi In Aymara, the murmur of the river water or sound, a town in northern Chile that has been inhabited for about 10,000 years ago. groups of nomadic people who traveled from the mountains to the coast, joining what is now known as Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Argentina.

Located in a fertile valley farming terraces equipped with a legacy of the Inca culture, was founded on December 30, 1927, established in 1982 as Provincial Capital Parinacota. Located 149 km from the city of Arica, at 3,500 meters altitude. It was and is of great historical importance in the migration of the peoples of the Andes in transit to the coast, being composed now mainly of the population largely Aymara descent.

The livelihoods of its economic life is based mainly on grazing livestock and agriculture, rising in recent decades, special interest tourism through the use of natural landscapes characteristic of the mountain range and plateau of the Andes.

Have been established and developed in the town a large number of services designed to cater and serve the many tourists throughout the year visit this area of ​​the country. Specializing in accommodations that rescue constructs developed in the local identity, restaurants that preserve the use of food in the area and the production of crafts from alpaca clothing products and household staff.

Tourist attractions in Putre are headed by the portals located at the entrances of homes, dating from the S. XVIII - XIX and are representative of the Spanish Baroque architecture developed in the highlands and the foothills of the Northern Andes. You can also find areas with rock art dating back 7,000 years, which added to the presence of the Churches with a mestizo architecture from the Catholic religion Aymara tradtion, are architecturally unique to the locality.

Which added to the natural places that offers the Biosphere Reserve Lauca National Park, where is located the highest lake in the world, Chungara, who along with Salt flats of Surire, make the area a major tourist attraction national and international visitors.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS:

• CAVE PAINTINGS OF VILACAURANI
• CAVE PAINTINGS OF INCANI
• HOT SPRINGS JURASI
• CHURCH OF PUTRE
• NATIONAL PARK LAUCA
• TOWN OF SOCOROMA
• CHURCH OF SOCOROMA
• CAVE PAINTINGS
• TERMAS DE LAS CUEVAS
• GUALLATIRE
• LAUCA RIVER
• POBLADO DE PARINACOTA
• IGLESIA DE PARINACOTA
• CAQUENA
• ANCUTA
• BOFEDAL DE PARINACOTA
• VISVIRI

LAKES AND PONDS

• CHUNGARA LAKE
• COTACOTANI LAKES
• CASIRI POND