Amaicha del Valle
Amaicha del Valle is an indigenous community of the Calchaquí people, located in the province of Tucumán. As an original people, it maintains its ancestral institutions, such as the Chiefdom and the Council of Elders. It is renowned for its microclimate of 360 days of sunshine a year and for being one of the few communities in the world with land titles to its ancestral territories, granted by the Spanish Crown in 1716. It houses the Pachamama Museum, an architectural work by Héctor Cruz that uses local stones to represent Andean cosmology, with monumental sculptures and rooms dedicated to geology and anthropology. In the heart of the town is Plaza San Martín, surrounded by adobe buildings and the Church of San Ramón Nonato. It also has an extensive territory that currently extends from the Abra del Infiernillo pass, continuing north along the Calchaquí Mountains to Cerro Pabellón, and westward to the eastern bank of the Santa María River.
