CultureDemonstration data
Guided visit to the Pucará de Tilcara
The pre-Hispanic hilltop settlement above Tilcara, with its botanical garden of high-altitude plants.


Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0 
Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0
About this experience
Walk the stone dwellings and paths of the Pucará with a guide who explains how the settlement was organised and how it was rediscovered and partly rebuilt in the 20th century.
The visit ends in the high-altitude botanical garden, with wide views over the Quebrada.
Highlights
- Pre-Hispanic stone dwellings
- The high-altitude botanical garden
- Views over the Quebrada de Humahuaca
