Hot desert swimming holes | Wild Camping

Argentina

Details

Verified:
5 months ago
Altitude:
1807.0 masl
Website:
None
Contributor:
Our Open Road

Amenities

Electricity:
No
Wifi:
No
Kitchen:
No
Restaurant:
No
Showers:
No
Water:
Natural Source
Toilets:
No
Big Rig Friendly:
Yes
Tent Friendly:
Yes
Pet Friendly:
Yes

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Description

Between Chilecito & Villa Union, on Ruta 40. A sweet little zone with a few different swimming holes, great canyon hike & free camping. An excellent desert oasis!

Pull off the highway behind guard rail & see the flat lot (big rig and tent friendly [tent sites also below in riverbed]). Imagine an upside down T when looking into the gorgeous red canyon filled with cactus: trails down then following the creek left is a great hike, straight to 2 swimming holes (and right towards highway). …. Just to clarify, you are hiking north to get to the pools.

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Nice spot. Close to the road but barely visible and quiet (very few trafic at nigh). Lots of space. You can walk a little downward to go to the river (little water in the beginning of november for us). The access is in the curve, between the rocks and the rail. Fireplace and wood. Felt safe and good for a night.

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Perfect spot, beautiful with pretty clean water.
spend the night there, it is a little bit close to the road however

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Nice spot to spend the day and the night. Unfortunately some trash around.

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As described. Awesome place. I picked up a bunch of 2liter soda bottles that were cut up or in pieces. Left the others which were full of water. Cleaned up the soda bottle wrappers in the creek. This place is beautiful. Definitely stop and walk to the pools, which is accurately located by the tourist attraction pin.

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Very nice place. There is water in the large swimming pool. We were all alone. possible to camp

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Great place, don't miss it! Little canyon full of cacti with some swimmingholes. We didn't stay the night because we were there early in the day. But it would have been a perfect spot.

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Nice place now in terms of there's no trash to be seen, but we also didn't stay as it's very visible from ruta 40

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A few reasons why we didn't stay:

- horrendous amounts of trash (used diapers!!)
- parking lot is less than 30 m from the ruta 40 and there is full visibility
- there are two electricity lines right over the parking that make noise in the wind
- and even more trash

The pools are beautiful and there is a lot of water mid March. But did not take a bath due to the trash.

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Magic Pools! Beautiful. Totally worth a stop.

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We enjoyed the cold water in the pools and camping at the back of the parking lot. We arrived in the early afternoon by late afternoon 4PM locals started to arrive, they were gone before it got dark. Spent a quiet night. It’s a pity the beauty of the spot is marred by dirty diapers, empty plastic bottles, foil junk food packets, used toilet paper and plastic bags scattered all over the place.

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Great place for overnighting and fantastic place for a refreshing bath in the heat of the desert. The two pools with constant fresh water filling are in the little canyon on the opposite side of the parking lot.
For the top one you have to climb a very little bit. Great scenery.

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No sign of the pools in late March, but all other rivers nearby are dried up so that's no surprise. Still a little flowing water though, enough to wash in.
Nice quiet tent camp at the end of the 'car park'. A bit of rubbish around - keep it clean folks!

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Great spot to break up the drive from Cafayate to Mendoza. Didn’t make it to the water holes but really enjoyed our peaceful and free night here!

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Easy to find now! If you go south on your side of the street it will be marked on the signs and ground as "las aguaditas" by black graffiti from some nice person. Really worth the visit although in winter it was to cold for us to take a dip. Be prepared in the morning it snowed a lot although the day before was hot and sunny.

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We loved this little camp spot. Plenty of room for 2-3 vehicles. Flat parking, quiet at night and little fire pits.

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Nothing more to tell, except we loved this place with good quality water

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Nous avons trouvés difficilement ce lieu de camping car situé dans un virage, l'accès et peu visible de la route 40. Une inscription "30 m" sur la glissière de sécurité nous a permis de nous y rendre en 4*4. Déçus 😔 il n'y a pas de point d'eau sur place ni d'oasis, le site est plein de déchets.

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Nice quite over night spot, flat ground and clean with 3 water pools for a refreshing dip in the summer. Persevere with looking for the pools, it took us a little while but they are there!

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Nice little place 100 my away from the road. You can go on a little hike in the canyon

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Right off the Ruta 40 - big space to park and camp. Not much shade. Tricky to find the good swimming holes - walk down to the river and turn slightly right and then towards the canyon. Don't go downstream. Few holes and a waterfall further up. Road is quiet at night.

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Nice place to camp and hang out by the swimming holes (you have to walk about 300 m down a little trail). Even in dry season it's deep enough to swim and jump from the rocks. The gps coordinates are exact, turn off is before/after the guard rail. I

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Between Chilecito & Villa Union, on Ruta 40. A sweet little zone with a few different swimming holes, great canyon hike & free camping. An excellent desert oasis!

Pull off the highway behind guard rail & see the flat lot (big rig and tent friendly [tent sites also below in riverbed]). Imagine an upside down T when looking into the gorgeous red canyon filled with cactus: trails down then following the creek left is a great hike, straight to 2 swimming holes (and right towards highway).

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