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The Punilla Valley is located in the central west of the province of Córdoba, in the center of Argentina. It was a must on the old road to the provinces of Cuyo. It is currently one of the main tourist centers of that country. This valley forms most of the territory of the Punilla Department.
The denomination of the valley of Punilla comes from the fact that in this abounded the montane shrub called popularly punilla that is to say the currently called Stipa ichu before called Stipa ichu punilla. Although in some places there is a "authentic" revisionist version much less credited: that the Punilla Valley was named because "the name was given" by the exploratory expedition of Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa "to feel a slight pointing" which results almost absurd since the altitudes of the region never cause "hints" in healthy people.
The climate in the Punilla Valley is mild, where the seasons of the year are clearly differentiated. Precipitation is uniform throughout the valley, with a small decrease from south to north and from east to west.
Summer is hot and humid, with significant thunderstorms, rains and occasionally hail. The nights are nice to cool. Autumn presents a warm to temperate climate, where rains gradually decrease. Winter is mild and dry. During this time, temperatures below zero occur at night, causing morning frosts. The snow is present every year in the highest areas of the Cordillera de la Sierras Grandes, as in Los Gigantes (2374 masl) and in the high areas of the Sierras Chicas. Sometimes snowfall also occurs in the lower areas of the Valley. In the month of August, it is very common that strong winds blow from the north, which added to the lack of rain, allows the spread of forest fires. Spring begins with mild temperatures and with a progressive increase in rainfall and thunderstorms.
This valley, like the other Cordoba people, is part of the southern tip of the Pampas Mountains region.
The western limits of the Punilla Valley are given by the Sierras Grandes, which separates it from the Traslasierra Valley. Las Sierras Grandes is an orographic system that has altitudes above 2000 meters above sea level (for example Cerro de Los Gigantes of 2374 meters above sea level), bordering the Traslasierra Valley, for an almost virgin highland region of montane meadows and dense palm groves that offer a curious spectacle in winter since the palm trees are covered by snowfall. Such region is called Pampa de Achala. In this areas there are extinct volcanic cones such as those of Poca and Boroa.
The eastern limits are given by the Sierras Chicas, which has its maximum summit is located on the Uritorco Hill of 1950 meters above sea level (6400 feet in Anglo-Saxon units), immediately east of the city of Capilla del Monte.
The relief means that the rivers and streams of the Sierras de Córdoba have abundant waterfalls (small but very attractive) or that their courses run through narrow canyons not very deep but very steep and with curious geoforms, known as "drawers."
The Cosquín river, formed by the confluence of the San Francisco and Yuspe rivers, runs north to south, leading to Lake San Roque, just like the San Antonio river, but flowing from south to north. Both originate in the First River, sometimes called Suquía, while the Quilpo and Pinto rivers flow north towards the endorheic basin of the Salinas Grandes, contributing their flows to the Cruz del Eje Dam. Due to the 'Mediterranean' characteristics of the climate, these rivers usually have a low flow during the summer and "grow" steeply during the rainy seasons so that they become torrentially very abundant.
The lakes-reservoirs abound in this valley, the best known being that of San Roque, on whose banks is the aforementioned Villa Carlos Paz. Lake San Roque was formed with the first great South American dike, built by engineers Juan Bialet Massé and Carlos Cassaffousth at the end of the 19th century, who used almost all the material manufactured in the area. The reservoir covered the old colonial church of San Roque, whose ruins are now submerged.
A few kilometers west of Carlos Paz is the Quebrada de los Condoritos, nucleus of the homonymous national natural park, although this park has much of its area included in the Paravachasca Valley.
The oldest human deposits currently known date back to ca. 10,000 or 8,000 years before the present (Ayampitín Culture, Olaen, Ongamira). Prehispanically this valley was a center of the henîa kamiâre ethnic group, known as' the comechingones
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