This
beautiful and attractive village lost in the sierras- today, a progressive
though quiet city-, constitutes the northern entrance to the Punilla valley's
tourist corridor. With Mount Uritorco as its protector, Capilla del Monte
gathers in its proposal to the visitor a complete offer, because it comprises an
astounding landscape: colorful and imposing sierras; multiform rocks and stones;
and crystal waters streams, rivers and lakes.
The city displays a compact building style and posseses the only "roofed
street" of South America with a complete centre of commercial
activity. Besides,
it offers hotels, gastronomy, and entertainment services for all tastes and
possibilities, as well as a casino.
For those who enjoy being in contact with nature, Capilla shows the visitor
varied species of autochthonous flora and fauna within their original
"habitats". You will have the possibility of admiring the white and
red quebracho woods, together with thick woods of coconut, carob and hackberry
trees, espinillos and piquillines whose treetops give lodging to varied species
of birds.
The most transcendental happenning of the last decades both at national and
international level of Capilla del Monte is founded on the enchantment and
mistery halo sorrounding its maximum symbol: Mount Uritorco. Especially due to
its properties, it was the "landing" scenary of "visitors
from the outer world", for the "UFOS" investigators, and it was
also considered to have an abundant reservation of energetic powers by others.