Created in 1983 and located in the department of the General Las Heras, to the northwest of the province of Mendoza, with a surface of 71,000 hectares, the Provincial Park Aconcagua has the objective hill of the world-wide alpinism.
The park includes a mountain linking corresponding to Central Andes and their peak altitude and main attraction: the Aconcagua hill, the highest summit of America with 6,959 meters of height.
Its name derives from the expression quechua Ackon Cahuak that means "stone sentry". First in arriving was the Swiss mountain climber, Mathias Zurbriggen, on 14 th January 1897.
The flora is adapted to extreme weather conditions. The most frequent species are the grass known like coirones, strong and stocky shrubs of slowest growth.
Between the fauna, dominating high altitude, the matchless presence of condor.
The park has a Group of Guardaparque and a Patrol of Rescue.

WHAT CANNOT BE LOST!

_ Aconcagua Hill _ It has two summits, the north and the south, being the first of them the most elevated. It has two routes of ascent, the one of the Horcones river and the one of the Vacas river, that they bequeath to the campings bases. By the gorge of the Horcones river, is where the greater percentage of mountain climbers get up and it is the way that commonly the tourists visit.
_ Lagoon of Horcones _ By the gorge of the Horcones river (one of the ascent routes) accedes to the glacial lagoon homonymus to 2,950 meters. This water mirror is fed with the defrosting waters of the Tolosa hill.