Cuyo is the wine-producing, mountainous region of central-west Argentina. Historically it comprised the provinces of San Juan, San Luis and Mendoza. The modern New Cuyo includes both Cuyo proper and the province of La Rioja. New Cuyo is a political and economic macroregion, but culturally La Rioja is part of the North-West rather than of Cuyo.
Atuel River, Mendoza Province.
Las Leñas ski resort
Cuyo highlights a considerable agro-industrial production of wine.
Colder weather predominates at higher elevations which can receive snow during the winter
San Juan Province, Argentina
San Juan Province is a province of Argentina, located in the western part of the country. Neighbouring provinces are, moving clockwise from the north, La Rioja, San Luis and Mendoza. It borders with Chile to the west.
Ischigualasto Provincial Park
Downtown San Juan, 1910.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Governor of San Juan in 1862–64, he enacted the nation's first compulsory education laws, which became a national policy when he was elected president in 1868.
Scene following the 1944 earthquake