The exit of General Alvear is carried out in a comfortable camineta 4x4, by Diagonal Jorge Simón until the place Soitué, the guide counts us that this place was where the projected international railroad would begin to Chile, it is also the limit of the area of cultivations.

When entering in the Provincial Route N° 184 one enters in contact with the autochthonous landscape, the one which as you advances goes changing the pasiaje

During our itinerary they go appearing some isolated hills, the first of them, is the Hill of the Chanchos in whose summit is a geographical point corresponding to the Military Geographical Institute.

When arriving to the crossing with the Provincial Route N° 179, after having traveled 60 Km approximately., is the Place The Awnings,

From this place it is from where you continues to The Mines of Picardo,

The mines of Picardo were a mining complex that had intense activity from 1900 until the decade of the 40, the numerous lead locations and silver that were exploited, they gave origin to several populational establishments.

Dispersed for the mountain they are ruins of precarious refuges built in stone, also lost among the jarillares, the mining cemetery is. The landscape is rural and it possesses some multicolored tones, it stands out in the atmosphere the imponent of the Nevado hill (3.810 s.n. of the sea), which gives to the environment a spectacular magnificence.