Santa Rosa de Tastil is a rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern

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Overview

It is located in the Lerma Valley, near the ruins of the ancient indigenous city of ''

Tastil Tastil is an archaeological site near Santa Rosa de Tastil, Salta Province, Argentina. Overview Located around 2.5 km (1.5 mi) northwest of the settlement are the Ruins of Tastil. Built by the Atacameño people, Tastil thrived during the 15th cen ...

'', and is populated only by eleven persons, three of which are employees of the Moisés Serpa Regional Museum of Tastil. A clinic, police station, school and church serve the small population, as well as around 150 rural inhabitants of the surrounding area. The outpost was named for Santa Rosa de Lima in 1906. The Moisés Serpa Regional Museum of Tastil, inaugurated after the 1997 declaration of the ruins as a National Historic Monument the same year, and displays artifacts found at the site and surroundings, including a

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dating from the 14th century.Museo de Antropología de Salta: Tastil y los Inkas
The Train to the Clouds, a heritage railway and the third-highest in the world, passes the location, and the ''Puerta de Tastil'' station is nearby. Museo de Sitio Tastil

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Redturs: Comunidad Santa Rosa de Tastil (Salta)
Populated places in Salta Province Populated places established in 1906 1906 establishments in Argentina {{Salta-geo-stub