Travel Reference
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Cosquín
03541 / POP 19,500 / ELEV 720M
Cosquín is known throughout the country for its
Festival Nacional del Folklore
(
www.aquicosquin.org
)
, a nine-day national folk-music festival that has been held in the last
week of January since 1961. The town gets packed for the festival, stays busy all summer
and goes pleasantly dead the rest of the year. The slightly more hardcore
Cosquín Rock
Festival
used to be held here, until the neighbors decided that teenagers with wallet
chains, studded wristbands and piercings weren't really the tourist trade they were looking
for. The festival relocated a few years ago to the banks of the nearby (and aptly named)
Lago San Roque.
East of town, 1260m
Cerro Pan de Azúcar
offers good views of the sierras and, on a
clear day, the city of Córdoba. An
aerosilla
(chairlift; return AR$50; 9am-6pm)
runs to the
summit regularly in the summer - check with the tourist office in the off season. A taxi to
the base should cost about AR$90/120 one way/return with a half-hour wait.
Across the river from the center of town (turn left after the bridge), Av Belgrano forms
4km of waterfront promenade - a great place for a stroll on a summer's day, dotted with
swimming holes that pack out when the temperature rises.
8am-9pm Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm Sat & Sun)
has a good map of the town.
