Locality situated next to the Grande river, in La Quebrada de Humahuaca, Province of Jujuy.
His name cames from a natives called omaguacas that inhabited these land more than 900 years ago: the natives called tilcara, that mounted a pucará (strength in language quechua), that today performs its main attraction. These first settlers were dedicated to agriculture, and were expert weavers and potters. The Pucará de Tilcara is between the most important archaeological sites of Argentina.

You can visit at this city:

_ Pucará de Tilcara (1 kilometer to the south of Tilcara) _ It was the natives' town of the place, on the pre-Hispanic time. It has a surface of 8 hectares, located on a nose at almost 80 meters on the Grande river.
* District of the Monument: It is the highest point where the greater amount of houses are located. Here you can find the monument to the archaeologists Juan Ambrosetti, Eric Boman and Salvador Debenedetti.
* Los Corrales (The Corrals): low zone destined for the animals.
* Sacred Site: central zone, scene of religious ceremonies.
* The District of the Entrance: they are other constructions of houses and several enclosures without ceiling.
* Necrópolis: the cemetery.

_ Botanical Garden of Height (to the left of the entrance to the Pucará de Tilcara) _ It has a surface of 3 hectares, where characteristic species of the vegetation of the Jujuy's gorge and puna can be appreciated.

_ Regional Painting Museum Jose Antonio Terry (459 Rivadavia st., in front of the main square) _

_ Archaeological Museum Eduardo Casanova (445 Belgrano st.) _

_ Museum of the Folclor Quebradeño _

_ Museum "Ernesto Soto Avedaño" _

_ Chapel of San Francisco (National Historical Monument) _ In its interior there are the rests of colonel Manuel Alvarez Prado, defender of the La Quebrada de Humahuaca during the Independence War.

_ Church Nuestra Señora del Rosario _