Las Piedritas

Las Piedritas is a village in Capital Department, San Juan. Las Piedritas is situated nearby to the neighborhood Barrio El Ceibo, as well as near Loteo Angelita.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rawson Hospital and San Juan de Cuyo Cathedral.

Rawson Hospital

Hospital

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Rawson Hospital is situated 2½ km southwest of Las Piedritas.

San Juan de Cuyo Cathedral

Church

Photo: Enrique Guardia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

San Juan Cathedral, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, is a cathedral and parish of the Roman Catholic Church in San Juan, Argentina. It is the seat of the metropolitan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo. San Juan de Cuyo Cathedral is situated 3½ km southwest of Las Piedritas.

Casa Natal de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Museum

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Casa Natal de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento is a museum, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Las Piedritas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Juan and Villa Krause.

San Juan

Photo: Enrique Guardia, CC0.

San Juan is the capital city of San Juan province, in the central-west Cuyo region of Argentina, about 150 km north of Mendoza. The province has a large Triassic period fossil record, believed to be one of the largest in the world.

Villa Krause

Town

Photo: Gonce, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Villa Krause is a city in the province of San Juan, Argentina in the Cuyo region. The city is located in the Rawson, east of the San Juan River, at 650 m above mean sea level and has a population of around 107,000 according to the 2001 census. Villa Krause is situated 8 km southwest of Las Piedritas.