\n<\/strong>plateau and a precordillerean landscape. It is the fastest option to travel between Esquel and El Bols\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
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A little before the half way point of the trip we can take a detour to the small town of El Mait\u00e9n where in the summer they host the railroad festival\u00a0La Trochita<\/a>\u00a0(the famous steam locomotive). At the 76km point we recommend that you take a detour to visit the big house of the estancia (homestead) Leleque, an old, quaint general store. This was also the central administration for the Southern Land Company, created by the English in 1889.\u00a0In 1991 this enormous estancia was acquired by the Italian firm Benneton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n -Or through\u00a0Los Alerces National Park<\/a><\/p>\n In this option we travel for 193 km by National Route 40 and later by the provincial roads 15 and 71, which are paved by gravel. There are gas (petrol) stations in El Bols\u00f3n and Lago Puelo. This road is longer and a little more difficult, but\u00a0the advantage is that it crosses one of the most spectacular National Parks in all of Argentina<\/strong>. It borders the Rivadavia, Verde and Futalaufgunen Lakes. You can visit the small towns of Epuy\u00e9n and Villa Futalaufquen. There is also a bus called the \u201cEsquel\u201d which makes this journey.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starting at El Bols\u00f3n gasoline (petrol) costs half of what it does in the rest of Argentina. One can make this journey in two different distinct modes. – Using National Route 40. It is a 167 km paved road surrounded by a\u00a0 plateau and a precordillerean landscape. It is the fastest option to travel between… Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[61,119,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-1605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-patagonia-hoy","8":"tag-ruta-40","9":"tag-rutas-de-la-patagonia","10":"tag-rutas-y-rincones-para-conocer"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9743,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/9743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cloud](\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/ruta40a.jpg\" "\\"Cloud")
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