Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
ment of items for sale including ponchos and the brightly colored
mantas
(shawls) of
Jáchal.
Orientation
San Juan is 170km north of Mendoza via RN40 and 1140km from Buenos Aires. Like
most Argentine cities, San Juan's grid pattern makes orientation very easy; the addition
of cardinal points - norte (north), sur (south), este (east) and oeste (west) - to street ad-
dresses helps even more. East-west Av San Martín and north-south Calle Mendoza di-
vide the city into these quadrants. The functional center of town is south of Av San
Martín, often referred to as Av Libertador.
Information
ACA
(Automóvil Club Argentina; 0264-422-3781; 9 de Julio 802)
Argentina's auto club;
good source for provincial road maps.
Banco de San Juan
(cnr Rivadavia & Entre Ríos;
9am-1pm Mon-Fri)
Has an ATM.
Cambio Santiago
(General Acha 52 Sur;
8am-6pm Mon-Fri, 9am-1pm Sat & Sun)
Money ex-
change.
Hospital Rawson
( 0264-422-2272; cnr General Paz & Estados Unidos)
Post Office
(Av José Ignacio de la Roza 259 Este; 8am-6pm Mon-Fri, 9am-1pm Sat)
Tourist Office
( 0264-422-2431;
www.turismo.sanjuan.gov.ar
; Sarmiento 24 Sur;
8am-7pm)
Has a good map of the city and its surroundings plus useful information on the
rest of the province, particularly Parque Provincial Ischigualasto.
Getting There & Away
AIR
Aerolíneas Argentinas/Austral
( 0264-421-4158; Av San Martín 215 Oeste; 10am-6pm
Mon-Fri, 10am-1pm Sat)
Aerolíneas Argentinas/Austral flies twice daily to Buenos Aires ex-
cept Sunday (once only).
BUS
From San Juan's
bus terminal
( 0264-422-1604; Estados Unidos 492 Sur)
you can book
tickets to Santiago, Viña del Mar and Valparaíso in Chile but you'll have to change buses
in Mendoza.
