Qualla: Chilecito https://qualla.com/chilecito en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Chilecito https://qualla.com/chilecito Chilecito: Introduction https://qualla.com/chilecito/ Steel towers march up the mountainside above Chilecito, a chain of them climbing toward a mine that has been silent for nearly a century. This is the Cable Carril, an aerial tramway built between 1902 and 1905 to carry gold-bearing copper ore down from the La Mejicana mine, high in the Sierra de Famatina. In its day it was the longest and highest cableway of its kind on Earth: more than 34 kilometers of cable strung across 260 towers, climbing 3,345 vertical meters into the thin air of the Andes. The ore wagons stopped running in 1927. The towers never came down.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/z/f/chilecito-wp/66zf-chilecito-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chilecito: A German Marvel in the Argentine Andes https://qualla.com/chilecito/ The contract was signed on 31 July 1902 with Adolf Bleichert & Co. of Leipzig, the German firm that more or less invented the modern aerial ropeway. Bleichert designed and manufactured the entire system, stations, towers, pulleys, and all, then shipped it across an ocean and asse...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/z/f/chilecito-wp/66zf-chilecito-little-chile.mp3 0:06 3 full Chilecito: An Oasis of Vines https://qualla.com/chilecito/ Water makes Chilecito possible. The town survives as an oasis of irrigation, fed by canals and supplemented from underground sources, and much of that water goes to grapevines. Wine is the most significant industry here, and the wineries draw on a high-desert terroir of intense s...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/z/f/chilecito-wp/66zf-chilecito-an-oasis-of-vines.mp3 0:06 4 full Chilecito: The Scholar's Rest House https://qualla.com/chilecito/ Chilecito also shaped one of Argentina's notable public figures. Joaquín V. González, the educator, lawyer, senator, governor, and historian, grew up in the area and returned in his later years to a home he built nearby. He called it Samay Huasi, from the Quechua for "rest house,...

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