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If you are visiting the city of Mendoza, you can make your reservations at the Diplomatic Hotel and trip around its neighboring cities and small towns. Malarge is one of them, and it is an outstanding alternative for a daily tour, discovering the marvels of Mother Nature.
On the southern side of the city of Malarge, coming from the Route 40, there are countless internal roads that track the Payunia reservoir. An unusual landscape of desert characteristics is waiting for tourists in this ungetatable area placed 130 kilometers away from Malarge town. There the power of volcanoes inundated vast territories with great covers of lava, which head to basalt formations that established a semi-lunar landscape.
The Payunia, Payn or Payn, is an area of suggestive beauty, and it emboldens the spirit of being at what was the original land. Walking through the slag heaps of Mount St. Mary, in the Black Pampas or around that perfect volcano identified as the Payn, are experiences that cause a extraordinary impact on each visitor. Passing to Lonco Vaca is a fantastic event. The landscape and the diversity of life that exists in this place is amazing. It was declared a protected area in 1988, with the statement of Total Reserves, over a territory of 450,000 hectares.
This area is characterized as typical of a transition geographical zone between the forest and the Patagonia. The landscape is represented by the features of of a powerful volcanic activity. The terrain is extremely rough and difficult in the environs of Matru Payn. Towards the south, between the Payn Matru and the Grande River, we can find some smaller volcanoes. There, the highly divided lava has shaped attractive black sand, which is known as the Pampas Negras. The ground is littered with volcanic bombs, which are pieces of lava that fell as liquid or paste and then cooled and took unique shapes. The volcanoes that stick out are the Payn Matru and Payn Liso. The latter is, with 3680 meters high, the highest in the region. Its crater is 400 meters in diameter and 90 deep.
The Payunia is an amazing place, with native vegetation and animals, surrounded by the most spectacular structural phenomenon. After an interesting visit to Malarge, in the Payunia Reserve, you can get back to the Diplomatic Hotel in the capital city and have a nice nap in one of its comfortable chambers.
