South America's Top Museums & World Heritage Sites

Argentina

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• LIST OF MUSEUMS IN ARGENTINA - Wikipedia.
• Cueva de las Manos - Río Pinturas. Ccontains an exceptional assemblage of cave art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago.
• Jesuit Block & Estancias of CÓrdoba - contains the core buildings of the Jesuit system: the university, the church and residence of the Society of Jesus, and the college.

Bolivia

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• Fuerte de Samaipata - the huge sculptured rock, dominating the town below, is a unique testimony to pre-Hispanic traditions and beliefs, and has no parallel anywhere in the Americas.
• Historic City of Sucre - founded by the Spanish in the first half of the 16th century. Its many well-preserved 16th-century religious buildings.
• Tiwanaku - spiritual and political centre of the Tiwanaku culture (500 and 900 AD).

Brazil

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• Christ the Redeemer (statue) - since 1931. Rio de Janeiro. It is 30 metres (98 ft) tall, not including its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal, and its arms stretch 28 metres (92 ft) wide.
• Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia - as the first capital of Brazil, from 1549 to 1763, Salvador de Bahia witnessed the blending of European, African and Amerindian cultures.
• Imperial Museum of Brazil - situated in the historic center of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is housed in the former summer palace of the emperor, Pedro II (1831-1889), built in 1845.
• Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis - ruins of São Miguel das Missões in Brazil, and those of San Ignacio Miní, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa María la Mayor in Argentina, lie at the heart of a tropical forest.
• National Historical Museum - created in 1922, and possesses over 287,000 items, including the largest numismatic collection of Latin America. Rio de Janeiro.

Chile

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• Churches of ChiloÉ - represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding form of ecclesiastical wooden architecture.
• Easter Island - Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people.

Colombia

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• Gold Museum - Bogotá.
• National Archeological Park of Tierradentro - monumental statues of human figures can be seen in the park, which also contains many hypogea dating from the 6th to the 10th century.
• Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena - situated in a bay in the Caribbean Sea, Cartagena has the most extensive fortifications in South America.
• San AgustÍn Archaeological Park - the largest group of religious monuments and megalithic sculptures in South America stands in a wild, spectacular landscape.

Peru

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• LIST OF MUSEUMS IN PERU - Wikipedia.
• Machu Picchu: Inca site ‘has gone by wrong name for over 100 years’ - "Peruvian historian and US archaeologist say the pre-Columbian town was called Huayna Picchu by the Inca people."
• Peru opens Machu Picchu ruins for one tourist - "Japanese tourist waited almost seven months to enter Inca citadel while trapped in country during coronavirus pandemic."
• Waqra PukarÁ: Peru's mysterious 'horned fortress' - "Peru's unknown site to rival Machu Picchu. With January 2024 seeing the start of even bigger crowds at Machu Picchu, savvy travellers may be wise to head to the stunning edifice that barely anyone has heard of: Waqra Pukará."
• Choquequirao - ruined Inca city in south Peru, similar in structure and architecture to Machu Picchu.
• MACHU PICCHU - pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
• Museum of the Nation - houses thousands of artifacts spanning the entire span of human occupation in Peru.
• National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru - the largest and oldest museum in Peru. The museum houses more than 100,000 artifacts spanning the entire history of human occupation in what is now Peru.
• Sacred City of Caral-Supe - the 5000-year-old 626-hectare archaeological site of The Sacred City of Caral-Supe is situated on a dry desert terrace overlooking the green valley of the Supe river. It dates back to the Late Archaic Period of the Central Andes and is the oldest centre of civilization in the Americas.