The Most Beautiful Places in Argentina
27 places · updated 13 October 2026
In short: By our ranking, the most beautiful places in Argentina are Perito Moreno Glacier, Iguazú National Park and Mount Fitz Roy. The list covers 27 places. Last updated 13 October 2026.
Argentina runs from the subtropical forests of the north to the edge of Antarctica, and the Andes along its western flank give it the highest mountains in the Americas, the granite spires of Patagonia and the southern ice fields that feed great glaciers. In the arid north-west, erosion has exposed layered rock in bands of red, green and violet, along with some of the richest Triassic fossil beds in the world. The country's wealth around 1900 added a capital built with European ambition.
Aconcagua, at about 6,960 metres, is the highest mountain outside Asia. In Patagonia, Mount Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre rise as sheer granite towers above the ice, long counted among the hardest climbs anywhere, and the Perito Moreno Glacier ends in a wall of ice about 70 metres high on Lago Argentino. Lanín, a solitary snow-capped volcano, stands on the border with Chile.
In the north-west, Ischigualasto, the Valley of the Moon, holds some of the oldest known dinosaur fossils, and neighbouring Talampaya is walled by red sandstone cliffs. The Serranía de Hornocal near Humahuaca shows fourteen colours in its folded slopes. In Santa Cruz province, the Cueva de las Manos is covered with stencilled hands made thousands of years ago, and in the north-east, Iguazú National Park surrounds a horseshoe of hundreds of waterfalls in the rainforest. Buenos Aires adds the Teatro Colón, one of the great opera houses of the world for its acoustics, and Recoleta Cemetery, a city of marble mausoleums where Eva Perón is buried.
In this list
| # | Place | Type | UNESCO |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perito Moreno Glacier | Glacier | |
| 2 | Iguazú National Park | National park | ✓ |
| 3 | Mount Fitz Roy | Summit | |
| 4 | El Ateneo Grand Splendid | Theatre building | |
| 5 | Serranía de Hornocal | Mountain | |
| 6 | Salinas Grandes | Salt flat | |
| 7 | Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse | Lighthouse | |
| 8 | Ischigualasto Provincial Park | Protected area | ✓ |
| 9 | Aconcagua | Mountain | |
| 10 | Teatro Colón | Opera house | |
| 11 | Cueva de las Manos | Cave | ✓ |
| 12 | Lanín | Volcano | |
| 13 | Talampaya National Park | National park | ✓ |
| 14 | Cerro Torre | Summit | |
| 15 | Recoleta Cemetery | Cemetery | |
| 16 | Villa Epecuén | Abandoned village | |
| 17 | Puente de la Mujer | Bridge | |
| 18 | San Ignacio Miní | Ruins | ✓ |
| 19 | Quebrada de Humahuaca | Canyon | ✓ |
| 20 | Caminito | Pedestrian street | |
| 21 | Puente del Inca | Natural arch | |
| 22 | Quebrada de las Conchas | Canyon | |
| 23 | Tren a las Nubes | Heritage railway | |
| 24 | Moconá Waterfalls | Waterfall | |
| 25 | Cerro de los Siete Colores | Mountain | |
| 26 | Campo de Piedra Pómez | Rock formation | |
| 27 | Cono de Arita | Mountain |
01 Perito Moreno Glacier
Glaciar Perito Moreno
Argentina50.493° S 73.128° W
Image by Barescar90 from Pixabay While roughly ninety percent of the world's glaciers are shrinking, Perito Moreno spent most of the twentieth century doing something almost nobody's glacier does: holding its ground, even pushing forward by a couple of meters some days, fed by heavy Andean snowfall high on the Southern Patagonian Ice Field and kept in…
Did you know? The Southern Patagonian Ice Field that feeds it holds the world's third-largest reserve of fresh water.
02 Iguazú National Park
Parque Nacional Iguazú
Argentina · 34.7 km from Foz do Iguaçu25.705° S 54.248° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
- UNESCO natural beauty
Image by AndreaRochas from Pixabay Argentina created Iguazú National Park in 1934 to protect the greater part of the Iguazú Falls and the subtropical forest around them, and UNESCO listed it in 1984, together with its Brazilian counterpart across the river. The park covers 677 square kilometres of the far north of Misiones province.
Did you know? Erosion is slowly pushing the falls upstream: the rock lip is estimated to retreat by roughly 1.4 to 2.1 centimetres every year.
03 Mount Fitz Roy
Monte Fitz Roy
Argentina49.271° S 73.043° W
Prissantenbär · Public domain Few mountains are shaped as purely for looking at as Fitz Roy. Its granite tower, 3,405 metres high, stands on the border between Argentina and Chile in southern Patagonia, within Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park, and it rises in sheer, smooth walls well above the ice fields and spires that surround it.
Did you know? Under a 1998 agreement, the border between Argentina and Chile detours eastward specifically so that it passes over the main summit.
04 El Ateneo Grand Splendid
Argentina · 3.9 km from Buenos Aires34.596° S 58.394° W
Roberto Fiadone · CC BY-SA 3.0 Behind a stately façade on Avenida Santa Fe in Buenos Aires, a bookshop occupies an entire theatre. Shelves fill the old stalls and line the curving balconies tier upon tier, the private boxes have become reading nooks, and the stage – still framed by its crimson curtains – now holds a café.
Did you know? The auditorium rose in four tiers of boxes above the stalls, and those boxes now serve as reading corners.
05 Serranía de Hornocal
Argentina · 24.3 km from Humahuaca23.262° S 65.123° W
Image by fedelubomillan from Pixabay The Serranía de Hornocal is a mountain range in the far north-west of Argentina whose slopes are folded into rows of sharp triangles, each striped in a different colour.
Did you know? The Yacoraite Formation preserves footprints of duck-billed dinosaurs, named Hadrosaurichnus australis, as well as fossil fish and a small crocodilian.
06 Salinas Grandes
Argentina23.633° S 65.894° W
Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0 Salinas Grandes is a sheet of white laid across the Puna, the high Andean plateau of northwest Argentina, at about 3,450 metres above sea level.
Did you know? Its surface is split between two provinces and two departments, Cochinoca in Jujuy and La Poma in Salta.
07 Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse
Faro Les Éclaireurs
Argentina · 17.2 km from Ushuaia54.872° S 68.083° W
Ricardo Martins · CC BY 2.0 Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse is a small tower with an outsized setting. It stands on the northeasternmost of a cluster of bare rocky islets in the Beagle Channel, about five nautical miles east of Ushuaia, with the mountains of Tierra del Fuego rising around it.
Did you know? Its lantern shows white and red flashes in a five-second rhythm, visible for about seven nautical miles along the channel.
08 Ischigualasto Provincial Park
Argentina30.117° S 67.912° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
M.Bustos · CC BY-SA 4.0 Ischigualasto is a dry basin in northeastern San Juan province where the ground itself reads like a book of the Late Triassic.
Did you know? A study in 1941 recorded about 70 species of fossil plants in the basin, decades before its dinosaurs became famous.
09 Aconcagua
Argentina32.653° S 70.012° W
Image by magicaltravelling from Pixabay Aconcagua, at about 6,960 metres, is the highest mountain outside Asia and one of the Seven Summits — the high points of the seven continents. It stands in Argentina's Mendoza Province, about 15 km from the Chilean border and 112 km northwest of the city of Mendoza, protected within Aconcagua Provincial Park.
Did you know? The Ecuadorian-Swiss runner Karl Egloff went from the trailhead to the summit and back in under 12 hours.
10 Teatro Colón
Argentina · 4.7 km from Buenos Aires34.601° S 58.383° W
EEJCC · CC0 The Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires is one of the great opera houses of the world, and for acoustics it has few equals: in a survey of conductors and musicians carried out by the acoustician Leo Beranek it came out as the best hall for opera anywhere and the second best for concerts.
Did you know? In 1938 the underground floors were extended beneath the neighbouring square and linked to the theatre by a tunnel to house the workshops.
11 Cueva de las Manos
Argentina47.150° S 70.667° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
Mariano · Public domain Most of the hand images at Cueva de las Manos weren't painted with a brush — they're negative stencils, made by pressing a hand flat against the rock and blowing pigment around it through a hollow bone or reed pipe, leaving a silhouette rather than a filled-in shape.
Did you know? An eruption of the Hudson volcano around 4700 BC ended the earliest style of painting and led to the area being abandoned for a time.
12 Lanín
Argentina39.637° S 71.503° W
Rodrigo Yuraszeck · CC BY-SA 4.0 Lanín is the kind of mountain children draw: a near-perfect, ice-capped cone rising alone above lakes and forests of monkey-puzzle trees on the border between Argentina and Chile.
Did you know? Radiocarbon dating points to an eruption around 560 AD, give or take 150 years, and the crater it left is thought to lie buried beneath the summit glacier.
13 Talampaya National Park
Parque Nacional Talampaya
Argentina29.796° S 67.811° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
Gino Lucas T. · CC BY-SA 2.5 Talampaya is a dry river that left behind a cathedral.
Did you know? Its fame as a natural wonder owes much to the journalist Federico Kirbus, whose illustrated articles from 1977 onward drew the first independent travellers.
14 Cerro Torre
Argentina49.291° S 73.099° W
Image by jawajeziorski from Pixabay Cerro Torre is barely 3,128 metres high, yet it is one of the most coveted and argued-over summits on Earth.
Did you know? The first alpine-style ascent, by three Americans in 1977, took about a week, compared with the two months of siege climbing the first undisputed team needed in 1974.
15 Recoleta Cemetery
Argentina · 4.4 km from Buenos Aires34.588° S 58.393° W
Image by dpkelly07 from Pixabay Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires is a city of the dead laid out like a city of the living: a grid of paved alleys lined with trees and some 4,700 above-ground vaults, many of them small chapels, temples and miniature palaces.
Did you know? According to a widely told story, the heiress Rufina Cambaceres was entombed alive in 1902 at age 19, after doctors mistook a cataleptic fit for death.
16 Villa Epecuén
Argentina · 8.9 km from Carhué37.132° S 62.810° W
Image by azorko from Pixabay Villa Epecuén was a spa town on the shore of a salt lake in the pampas of Buenos Aires Province. Its founder, Arturo Vatteone, opened the first bathing establishment on 23 January 1921, and the town grew quickly around the lake, whose water is almost as salty as the Dead Sea and was promoted for its healing powers.
Did you know? Hotels and guesthouses declared some 6,000 rooms, and the season ran from November to March, peaking between the 1950s and 1970s.
17 Puente de la Mujer
Argentina · 6.2 km from Buenos Aires34.608° S 58.365° W
Carlos Adampol Galindo · CC BY-SA 2.0 Santiago Calatrava designed this footbridge as a piece of choreography rather than a piece of infrastructure: a fixed white mast leans over the dock at an angle, and from it hangs a single curving span that the architect has described outright as two tango dancers, the mast the man, the deck the woman bending around…
Did you know? The name comes from the district itself: many streets in Puerto Madero are named after women.
18 San Ignacio Miní
Ruinas Jesuíticas de San Ignacio Mini
Argentina · 21.6 km from Hohenau27.255° S 55.532° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
Fernando · CC BY-SA 4.0 Thick walls of red sandstone standing among the trees of northeastern Argentina are what remain of San Ignacio Miní, one of the Jesuit mission towns founded among the Guaraní people in the seventeenth century.
Did you know? The writer Horacio Quiroga came to the ruins in 1903 as photographer on Leopoldo Lugones's expedition, and later settled in the town of San Ignacio.
19 Quebrada de Humahuaca
Argentina · 0.1 km from Humahuaca23.200° S 65.349° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
Image by Jonny_Joka from Pixabay The Quebrada de Humahuaca is a narrow mountain valley in Jujuy province in Argentina's far north-west, running north to south for about 155 km between the high plateau of the Altiplano and the lower hills to the east. The Río Grande flows through it, dry in winter and a torrent in the summer rains.
Did you know? Rock art and carved stones at Inca Cueva, in the upper valley, are estimated to be around 10,000 years old.
20 Caminito
Argentina · 7.1 km from Buenos Aires34.639° S 58.363° W
Image by manutalaixa from Pixabay Caminito is a short, crooked lane in La Boca, the old port quarter of Buenos Aires, where the Riachuelo bends at Vuelta de Rocha before meeting the Río de la Plata.
Did you know? The rail line that replaced the stream was a freight branch built in 1866 by the Buenos Aires and Ensenada Port Railway.
21 Puente del Inca
Argentina32.827° S 69.911° W
Image by magicaltravelling from Pixabay Puente del Inca is a natural bridge high in the Andes of Mendoza, at about 2,700 metres above sea level, spanning the Las Cuevas river in a valley below the approach to Aconcagua. The arch is about 53 metres long and 28 metres wide, with its underside some 19 metres above the water.
Did you know? Local names for the individual springs follow the planets: Venus, Mars, Saturn and Mercury, plus one called Champagne.
22 Quebrada de las Conchas
Argentina · 31.1 km from Cafayate25.917° S 65.717° W
Image by silkesauer from Pixabay South of the city of Salta, the Conchas River has cut a canyon through red, ochre and pale sedimentary rock, and along it wind and water have shaped a gallery of formations that local people have long named after what they resemble: the Toad, the Friar, the Castles, the Windows.
Did you know? Just after receiving the Santa María River near Cafayate, the river turns sharply north-east and plunges into the gorge.
23 Tren a las Nubes
Argentina · 0.9 km from Salta24.777° S 65.411° W
Gavieiro Juan M · CC BY-SA 3.0 The Tren a las Nubes, the "Train to the Clouds", runs over one of the highest railways in the world, on the old C-14 branch of the Belgrano network that climbs from the valley of Salta up to the high Puna.
Did you know? The Polvorilla Viaduct was completed on 7 November 1932, sixteen years before the full line opened in 1948.
24 Moconá Waterfalls
Saltos del Moconá
Argentina27.143° S 53.887° W
Loco085 · CC BY-SA 2.5 Most waterfalls cross a river; the Moconá Falls run along it.
Did you know? Argentina's 1993 law protecting the falls bans any construction that would alter the scenery, allowing only minor works such as walkways and jetties.
25 Cerro de los Siete Colores
Argentina23.747° S 65.504° W
Augusto Sarita · CC BY-SA 3.0 The Hill of Seven Colours rises directly behind the village of Purmamarca, so close that the last houses seem to lean against it.
Did you know? Some of the pink and red bands, made of iron-rich clays and mudstones, are thought to be only about three to four million years old.
26 Campo de Piedra Pómez
Argentina26.660° S 67.514° W
Rodolfo Pace · CC BY 2.0 Campo de Piedra Pómez is a pale stone sea stranded high on the Puna of north-western Argentina: thousands of white and pinkish pumice fins, blades and towers rising from dark volcanic sand, every one of them shaped by the wind.
Did you know? Satellite radar shows the Cerro Blanco caldera has been slowly sinking, by roughly a centimetre a year, since at least 1992.
27 Cono de Arita
Argentina25.018° S 67.729° W
Ben Stubbs · CC BY 2.0 In the middle of one of the largest salt flats on Earth stands a cone so regular it looks made by hand. The Cono de Arita rises roughly 200 metres above the white floor of the Salar de Arizaro, in the high Puna de Atacama of north-western Argentina, and its summit reaches about 3,689 metres above sea level.
Did you know? The salt flat lies within the so-called Lithium Triangle, and companies have assessed it for lithium carbonate extraction.
How this list is ranked
Places are chosen for how they look, not for how famous they are: each one has its own description and a photograph credited to its author. The order is a single world ranking that weighs the beauty of the place in curated photography together with how widely it is documented — the number of language editions of its encyclopedia article and how often that article is read in a year. The list is rebuilt as places are added, so the order and the counts on this page are always current.
Questions people ask
- What are the most beautiful places in Argentina?
- On our list, Perito Moreno Glacier ranks first, followed by Iguazú National Park and Mount Fitz Roy.
- How high is Aconcagua?
- Aconcagua rises to about 6,960 metres in the Andes of Mendoza province, making it the highest mountain in the Americas and in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres. Its normal route is not technical, but the altitude makes it a serious climb.
- Why is the Perito Moreno Glacier not retreating?
- Unlike most glaciers in Patagonia, Perito Moreno has stayed roughly stable for decades, gaining about as much ice from snowfall in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field as it loses at its front. Periodically it advances far enough to dam an arm of Lago Argentino, and the ice dam later ruptures dramatically.
- How old are the paintings in Cueva de las Manos?
- The oldest stencilled hands and animal figures in the Cueva de las Manos are dated to around 9,000 years ago, made by early hunter-gatherers of Patagonia. Most of the hands are left hands, sprayed with mineral pigments through a tube.
- What kinds of places are there to see in Argentina?
- In our collection, the places in Argentina are most often mountains (4), nature sanctuaries (3), summits (2) and canyons and gorges (2).
- How many places are on this list in Argentina?
- The list covers 27 places.