Cuyo

Cuyo — Mendoza, San Juan and San Luis. Settled across the Andes from Chile in the 1560s and wholly dependent on irrigating mountain snowmelt, this oasis country was long a province apart, nearer to Santiago than to Buenos Aires. Italian and Spanish immigration turned its irrigated land into the heart of Argentine wine — Malbec beneath Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas — and the annual Vendimia harvest festival and a dry, sunny conservatism define its character.

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