San Carlos de Bariloche:
San Carlos de Bariloche was founded on May, 1902 on the shores of the Nahuel Huapi lake in the province of Río Negro. The city stands out for its architectural features and for being located in a priviledged region due to the beauty of its landscapes made up of mountains, woods, lakes, glaciers, and an exuberant flora.

It is one of the most populated cities in the province and one of the most important tourist centres in Argentina.

Its characteristic architecture consists of buildings made from stones and wood with slated gabled roofs, that give the city a very special physiognomy. Among the most outstanding groups we can mention the Civic Centre, seat of the main official organisms.
Within the centre arteries there are varied shops and commercial shop centres, cafeterias, and restaurants. The city also has an important busy night life.

Date of the national and international tourism, Bariloche can be enjoyed all the year long. In the spring and summer seasons, it is ideal for carrying out all kinds of excursions and outdoor activities; in winter, the snow offers a singular panorama, including the skiing spectacle in one of the most important Argentine centres for the practice of this sport in South America: Mount Cathedral. Within this frame, there exists the famous Fiesta Nacional de la Nieve (Snow National Celebration) which constitutes a truly international sporting, artistic and social event.
The regional chocolates, in any of its numberless varieties are the mostly appreciated souvenirs for all tourists. In some shops you can see the way the are elaborated. The marmalades elaboration made of regional fine fruits also stand out.
San Carlos de Bariloche comprises a tourist infrastructure and equipment service in accordance with its importance, offering lodging and gastronomic establishments for all levels.

El Bolsón:
This small village is located in the southwest of the province of Río Negro, right in the angle formed by the Andes Mountain Range and the 42th parallel (provincial border with Chubut). It is embedded in a picturesque and colourful mountain valley that ends up in the Puelo lake.
Among sierras, wearing a simple aspect, its building style- mostly made of stone with cypress tiled roofs, greatly impress the tourist in a countryside and wooded mountains frame where the streams and falls originated by the high mountains' thaw do not fail to exist, turning this place into a paradisiacal landscape filled with fresh aromas.
El Bolsón currently lodges the descendants of the different original groups which, coming from the most faraway corners of the world have laid the foundations of an active agricultural and cattle breeding community devoted to the intensive growing of hops- it is a vegetal species that gives flavour to beer and generates an important economic profit to the region. This has promoted the annual celebration of the National Hops Festivity that takes place in the month of February.
The production of goat and sheep milk and its derivatives, are other activities that promote the progress of El Bolsón.
There are also artisans that work with wood and others that imposed the organic agriculture. This type of agriculturalists, favoured by the benign microclimate of the region, are devoted to the growing of fine fruits without the use of pesticides and agrochemicals. This quality has turned the strawberries, raspberries, and the sweet marmalades of the region into quite required products by the local and international markets.
All this production makes the gastronomy of the zone stand out for being very healthy.
The city posseses hotels and cabins of good quality, appart from offering the possibility of taking lodging in country establishments seeing and taking part in the country activities.