“To get from the city of Salta to the town of Cafayate
(the primary wine region of Salta) you drive about
120 miles southwest on Route 68 through some
very picturesque landscapes. The road is mostly
paved and well maintained when hard-packed dirt.
Both Salta and Cafayate are in valleys, Lerma and
Calchaquí respectively, divided by a mountainous
region known as Quebrada de las Conchas. It is
a scenic drive leaving Salta through the valley
of Lerma, a green subtropical highland climate,
traversing through the dramatic scenery of
Quebrada de las Conchas, and then into the
Cafayate valley of Calchaquí, a dry desert climate.”
Mountainous region known as Quebrada de las Conchas
