NGUILLATUN Cabañas & Boungalows

CAJON NEGRO
You can get to this peaceful valley from different starting points and you should talk about this with your Guide, who will advise you and inform you as to which is the most convenient one.
From this valley surrounded by the Inacayal Hill (1,840 m), Belvedere Hill (1,685 m) and Filo Belvedere (1,685), several trekkings can be done on its surroundings. For example one is to get to the origin of the Las Piedritas stream, or simply camp and enjoy flora and fauna. Coming down, the most common path is one that goes through a forest of low bushy lengas, which will give you an idea of the height you are on (1,400 to 1,600 mts). Then, coming down, the lengas take the shape of a tree. Even lower on the hill you will see the coihue and other species that form the sotobosque (under forest).
During your trekking you will hear the sound of the water coming from Las Piedritas stream, formed by the Inacayal Fall, that goes on until it finishes in the Nahuel Huapi lake. You will cross little spouts of pristine water and it is possible that you listen to and see several kinds of birds that live among the bushes, or work as the austral red bonnet woody woodpecker does. The trekking will take you 3 to 4 hours (one way) according to your rhythm. Summer is the best season to do it although autumn has wonderful colours to watch, since some trees as the lenga and the ñire, change the colour of their leaves before they fall.

THE OLD ROAD TO THE ESPEJO
Begin your way on the Tourism Secretary, at the 7 Lagos Route, continue until the Plaza de las Colectividades (Communities' Square) some 1200m from there. Turn right on Cacique Antriao Road (ripio road). 1000 m afterwards there is a road to your right that takes you up to Cerro Belvedere. Take the road to the left, after 300 m cross the Paisil little creek, named after somebody who lived nearby. The surrounding route will also come to this end.
Continue by the old road towards the Correntoso lake, cross the Epu Lafquen area (this means Two Lakes in mapuche) and get to the Correntoso Camping. After this beautiful and peaceful camping, you will find the old bridge on the Correntoso river, one of the shortest in the world which is 132 m long and is famous as a fly fishing place. Go on and get to the 7 Lagos Route (Route 231). Turn left, cross the bridge which is some 35 m high. From there you can see a magnificent view of Nahuel Huapi and Correntoso lakes, hills and mountains. There we should point out the Correntoso Hotel (1948) as well as the small Correntoso Hotel built in wood. Their owners were Primo and Rosa Capraro who received tourists as far back as 1927, crossing the lake from Bariloche, and getting there to have tea with typical European pastry. To get back to the old road, take the road to Villa Correntoso area, with its tourist cabins. After 100-200 m turn left some metres and turn again to your right. Thus you will get after a while to the Plazoleta Primo Capraro (small square). This name was given to it in 1953 by the first Comisión de Fomento (Promotion Commission) in Villa La Angostura, as a way to render homage to this pioneer (50 years after he arrived to the area), who did so much for the area and was one of the people who signed the founding act of the Village. After the little square continue by the old road which is 6 km long, opened between 1934 and 1936 according to the National Parks Plan of Development.

VILLA LA ANGOSTURA CHAPEL (De la Asuncion)
This Chapel will surprise you in one of the turnings of the road, amid beautiful gardens and in the silent still of its surroundings: it invites you to withdraw. Its style is that developed by Bullrich real estate agent and is similar to other buildings in the area. Together with the Llao Llao Chapel (San Eduardo) in Bariloche they are typical of the style of the National Park buildings and the Llao Llao hotel. The Chapel has Via Crucis images done by a well known Buenos Aires artist, and beautiful vitraux.

RIO BONITO FALL AND CERRO BAYO
Begin at the Tourism Secretary, take the route towards San Carlos de Bariloche for 3 km and turn (left) taking the Provincial (Ripio) Route 66. In 6 km you will see stunning and varied panoramic sights of Villa La Angostura, such as the Cumelen and Las Balsas bays, Puerto Manzano, Quetrihue Peninsula and others.
After 5 km there is a 200 m path to the Rio Bonito Fall, a 35 m height fall which roams over a fracture of the land formed by basaltic rocks. Water falls on an 8 m diameter pit, with a beautiful emerald colour. Take again the road, which finishes 1 k afterwards, and get to the base at 1050 metres above sea level. There you will find most of the services offered to tourism such as bike rental and two restaurants where you can feel better tasting delicious things.
You can continue your way up to 1500 metres above sea level in the double chairlift. One of the restaurants there has a terrace with a view to Nahuel Huapi Lake, Mount Tronador, the Quetrihue peninsula and the village centre. You can make your way down on the same chairlift or by a one-hour walking through the panoramic road or the main run. Or even you can continue climbing to the peak (1782 m) enjoying a unique landscape of mountains, forests and lakes. To get to the Base on bike you have to overcome a 200 m slope (difficulty grade IV) and it will take you half a day, starting at El Cruce. Also you can get up by bike up to the intermediate height in a chairlift and get down by 3 different paths (difficulty grade IV), some 20 km (from El Cruce). The slope is 400 m and you can do it in half a day or the whole day. This tourist attraction offers another very interest option: the Fonseca Path to make trekking, mountain bike or horse riding accompanied by a guide.

LAGUNA VERDE
This natural reserve is located some 1200 m from the Angostura Port and is a shady forest full of cypresses, coihues, myrtles, radales and other species. Within the forest the peaceful Laguna Verde appears, with an intense emerald green colour, surrounded by a beautiful landscape. There are many insects and water birds on the surface and in the water the puyen and the Patagonian pejerrey can be found, two protected species.
There are signals that will guide you to make the circuit by yourself (going in and out from the same point) and that will give you the name of the main species. Near the small pier, you can observe the Myrtle of Love, a cypress and a myrtle that interlace their branches.

BELVEDERE'S VIEWPOINT AND INACAYAL FALL
These two excursions share the same geographical location and you can get there by the same road. They are a sample of a typical natural mountain environment.
From the Plazoleta de las Colectividades (on 7 Lagos Route, 1200 m from Tourism Secretary), turn right on the Cacique Antriao (old road). This road goes up and then goes down. When going down, take the first road to the left (there is a sign). Go up some 1000 m by a winding and high slopes road until you get to a branch road. To your right you can get to the Inacayal Fall and to your left to Belvedere Viewpoint (you have to leave your car at a palisade and continue walking up).

Belvedere Viewpoint
This viewpoint is wide and safe so you can comfortably admire the stunning panorama of lakes and mountains. On the front, you can see the Correntoso Lake, a 27 Km2 water mirror, and the Correntoso River that flows from the Correntoso Lake to Nahuel Huapi Lake. On the back, the mountain range which makes the border with Chile. There you find the following mountains: Macal, Dormilon, Tres Hermanas, Pantojo (an old volcano's cone), Rincon, Titlis or Matus and Campana. You will also see the Nahuel Huapi lake and three of its seven branches: Machete and Rincon, which are very well-known by salmon fishermen every season, and the Ultima Esperanza branch. You can see the Correntoso Hotel, the first one built in this region (1924) which has been remodelled, and a partial view of the tourism cabins of the area.

Inacayal Fall
At the junction of the road, turn right, this is at some 1000 metres above sea level. At this height the colihue cane (Chusquea culeau) appears, a perpetual plant that dies after it flowers and gives fruits (every 25 or 30 years), and it is then, with the increase of food, when many small species of animals of the sotobosque (under forest) appear.
You will also note that the ecosystem flora changes. For example, the canelillo (Drimys winteri) - sacred tree of the Araucans, appears at this height as a bush. Its peel has medicinal qualities in the treatment of escorbuto, due to its great amount of C vitamine. Other species of the sotobosque are the small maiten (Maytenus disticha) and its hard-wood species (Maytenus magellanica). The Nothofagus (false beech trees) are the ones typical here, such as the coihue (Nothofagus dombeyi) and the lenga (Nothofagus pumulio). You will also see the michay and the calafate. The michay (Berberis darwinii) has beautiful orange flowers. From the stems and roots of the calafate (Berberis buxifolia), Indians used to draw out a yellow dye. Its flowers are also yellow and its fruit, similar to a black small grape is edible. According to tradition, he who eats a calafate will come back to Patagonia. Flora is represented by many birds as the chucao, its loud voice will tell you that it is there but you will rarely be able to see it. Others are the woodpecker, ratonas and rayaditos (the striped ones). Among the insects, there is a butterfly that lives in the canelillo, using its leaves as a very strange wrapping.
While you go up, you will find several viewpoints, with room for 10 people at a time. From there you will have wonderful views of the Nahuel Huapi lake, the range of mountains with its most well known peaks and part of the urban area of Villa La Angostura. A little forward, you will be able to see the over 50 m fall, and you can get there if you continue the path. The Las Piedritas stream is the water that gives origin to it and is formed by melting water, transparent and cold, quickly running due to the different levels of the ground. You will be able to see the big dell of this fall, the rocky forms that show that a glacier erosion process in the beginning gave way to a fluvial erosion giving it the form of a V, different to the U-valleys, formed by the glacier erosion such as the ones of Machete and Pireco rivers and the branches of the Nahuel Huapi. You will find several kinds of ferns (pteridofitas), violets (Viola maculata) which are generally near the lenga and the alpin Ourisia, with beautiful red flowers usually on the banks of the creeks. This circuit can be done all year through, but it is advisable not to do it during winter, since the amount of snow will slow your step and it is difficult to find the path.

QUETRIHUE PENINSULA VIEWPOINTS
When you enter the Los Arrayanes National Park the path splits into two. If you take to the right by the steps, you will get to the Arrayan Viewpoint after 20-30 minutes walk.
Different wonderful views will appear for you to take as a remembrance. There are big coihues together with lauras, maquis, bindweeds as the orange mutisia reina, or the violet mutisia virreina, orchids and others. The voices of several birds will surprise you such as the chucao, ratoneras, rayaditos (the striped ones) and austral parrot. From the viewpoint, you will have a panoramic view of the Nahuel Huapi lake and its branches Machete, Rincon and Ultima Esperanza, the Brava bay, Fray Menendez island and the range of mountains that makes the border with Chile. We suggest you to go with a qualified Guide to be able to identify the hills, the populations living on the other side of the lake, the places that fishermen most search, anecdotes and other things.
Coming back to the left and after a short while you will get to the Messidor I and II viewpoints. From there you can see the Mansa bay and the Angostura port pier. Also, you can see the Parques Nacionales building, Angostura Hotel and some tourist cabins, the Messidor Hostel and a partial view of the Messidor Castle.

VILLA LA ANGOSTURA MUSEUM
This small Museum is at 2177 Nahuel Huapi Boulevard, near the Mansa bay and only some metres after the De la Asunción Chapel. The building was formerly the first usina (power factory) of the village, built by Parques Nacionales, and later used by Prefectura naval (navy police). Within it, there are historic elements from the Indians, showing habits and culture of the people who lived here many years ago. A sawmill machine and a cane knife used to make cypress tiles, are witness of the way the worked in wood.
A canoe made from only one trunk shows us the way they travelled on the lake. This was found by Mr Rodriguez and rescued by Mr Antonio Margaride, a Bariloche diver, in the canal that separates the Menéndez Island from the beach.
Some historical documents come from the second part of the Desert Campaign, led by General C Villegas and his dealings with Cacique Inacayal (Chief), a member of the Mapuche nation that occupied lands from Neuquen to Santa Cruz. There are also documents from the first years of Parques Nacionales in the area and the creation of the first Comisión de Fomento (Promotion Commission) of Villa La Angostura in 1945.