April 1, 2026
Jujuy No. 2: the Mountain of 14 Colors.
// If anyone missed Jujuy №1 – here it is.
The undisputed highlight of our trip to northern Argentina was the Mountain of 14 Colors, aka the Serranía de Hornocal, in the Quebrada de Humahuaca region – a World Heritage Site. And it (rather – they, but in Spanish the name’s in the singular) really is (are) multicolored! Through some geological miracle, the sedimentary rock here ended up layered in different colors. Then erosion ground some of it down (over millennia) and washed it away, and what we’re left with today is this:
Look closer and it gets even more OMG! ->
And if you grab the binoculars or crank up the zoom on a telephoto lens – it’s all just fantastic! ->
