Surrounded just by the constant murmur of the Patagonian wind,
open the Pinturas River Canyon. There, among the folds of its
high walls, rock art is found in the Cueva de las Manos, where
people from 9,000 years ago sealed their art and their life
testimony. Its fame is not for nothing. Those hands, guanacos
and geometric patterns in the stone of the cave are the oldest
expression of South American peoples are aware. Unesco
understood this when in 1999 it was appointed Cultural Heritage
of Humanity. Its location, alone, in the middle of the desert
northwest of Santa Cruz, lets kept intact. The nearest town,
Perito Moreno, is 163 kilometers away. And beyond, and near the
mountain range, there is Los Antiguos, which was the resting
place of the elders of the tribes that disappeared. This whole
area and not just the cave, including the Perito Moreno National
Park, is a rich archaeological and paleontological site. The
valleys, canyons, lakes and rivers that make it up jealously
shelter paintings and different ty