Welcome to Puente del Inca. This place is one of the most frequented spots of Argentina. The beauty of the Puente del Inca has been mesmerizing and enthralling visitors from ages. Charles Darwin was one of the visitors to this natural marvel, and made some drawings of the bridge with great stalactites The Puente del Inca, Spanish for "the Inca's Bridge", is a innate curve that builds a bridge over the Vacas River which is the name of the inception of the Mendoza River. Situated in the Mendoza Province of Argentina this place shares the borderline with Chile which is between Las Cuevas and Punta de Vacas.

Puente del Inca is also the name of the nearby hot springs. According to scientists elements like ice and hot springs led to the origin of the formation. They hypothecate that in primitative times ice wrapped up the river and behaved as support for avalanches of snow, dust and rocks. Thus when the dust over the ice over the river would have rendered as a path for the sulfurous water and lapidified the surface the snow melted which kept the bridge intact. There was a large Thermal Resort and Spa that employed the hot springs to heal some sicknesses in the early twentieth century. You will find there a train station that is still standing there, and tourists come here by train to the resort. This station was Argentine one of the last stations of the Trans-Andean railroads before the train kept going into Chile, jaunting through a long tunnel under the Andes.

Although the bridge was used as a path across the river by Inca travelers between Chile and Peru in pre-Columbian time's legend has it that many years before to the arrival of the Spaniards, a great Inca chief had an ailing son suffering from paralysis. After failure from every corner, he heard that in the south there was a place where healing water could put an end to his disgrace. Without further waste of any time he geared up a group of his best warriors and set for the high peaks. When he came, he detected with astonishment the famous waters that came out of the earth was blocked by was a torrential river in front of it. His brave warriors, to fulfill the chief's dream, did not waffle to comprehend one another, building a human bridge that reached the other side. The Inca chief walked on their backs with his son and reached the thermal source where he found to great relief the remedy he had been looking for. When he looked back to thank his warriors, they had been turned into stone, creating the famous 'Puente del Inca'.

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