Cerro de los Siete Colores

Trail description

A 1.5 km walk with about 30 m of climbing along the Río Purmamarca and up the path to the panoramic viewpoint over the Cerro de los Siete Colores, ending in Purmamarca village. The hill borders the Quebrada de Purmamarca, a western branch of the Quebrada de Humahuaca in Jujuy. Its bands of colour come from a complex geological history of marine, lake and river sediments raised by tectonic movement.

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