Sierra de los Padres

Leaving Mar del Plata through Av. Luro, you will find Route 226, a two-lane highway that makes transit very comfortable and safe, allowing you to appreciate the beauty so characteristic of its mountain landscape. As you go through it, you will go along a path surrounded by fields and farms in the area, always having the mountains as a background.
At km 16 you will find the place » The Coyunco «, turning left you enter the access Padre Luis Varetto where you will find the entrance mast, and 50 mts. The Sierra de los Padres Tourist Information and Orientation Cabin is located, where they will give you free brochures for your orientation in this place.
The Sierra de los Padres, belonging to the Tandilia System (the oldest orographic folding in the world), constitutes a picturesque place transformed into an important residential area.
Climbing up to the top of the Sierras de los Padres and with an average height of 150 meters. above sea level, you arrive at the panoramic point from where you get a beautiful view of the area of farms that surround it, the Laguna de los Padres and Provincial Route 226 called the Garden route.
Pine, eucalyptus, aromos, cedar, ash and elm trees - all of them exotic species - and native trees, willows, curros and chilcas - are staggered on the slopes of the mountains, where larks, thrushes, chimangos, woodpeckers and doves fly. doves, and some jararáes and snakes hide.
In the final foothills of Sierra de los Padres, important archaeological findings have been made, such as cave paintings. Another fundamental discovery is the Tixi Cave, in which various elements were found that are currently in the investigation phase, which will yield extremely important and unknown data up to now in what refers to Anthropology and about the ancestors of man in this area of Buenos Aires.

Framed by a forest reserve that covers a total area of 687 hectares, the Laguna de los Padres It is one of the main recreational centers of the city. It has large landscaped areas ideal for picnics and outdoor games. You can rent boats (the mirror of water allows a rich and varied fishing) and stoves. It presents a vegetation that can be classified as: emerged, submerged and floating. Regarding its fauna, in the area you can see more than 90 species of birds that use the sector as a feeding area, sharing their habitat with mammals and amphibians. We can also find a shopping center where they work, telephone services, real estate, ATM, a house of Welsh cake and European confectionery, crafts, among other services.