Posta de Hornillos

This home in the Quebrada de Humahuaca between Maimará and Purmamarca, now a museum, it used to be an old post created by the Alvarez family Prado in the year 1772 and was a necessary step in the route connecting the Alto Peru with the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. In the year 1810 it became the forefront Headquarters of the Independence Army and in the year 1913 it was the resting place of General Don Manuel Belgrano after the battles in Tucuman and Salta. In one of the rooms of this house stayed, among other heroes Martin Miguel de Guemes, Juan José Castelli, Antonio José Balcarce and Rondeau.