Por suerte, unos kilómetros mas adelante divisamos una "picada" recientemente abierta en el monte de matas espinosas y achaparradas.
La picada nos llevaba en la correcta dirección hacia la confluencia !!!!
La pena fue que faltando unos 3.000 metros se acababa en unos corrales semiabandonados al lado de un gran jagüel.
Bueno, a bajarse y a caminar...
Tres mil metros esquivando matas espinosas de ida y otros tres mil de regreso para que ustedes puedan ver que hay en el exacto lugar donde se cruzan el paralelo de 32 grados de latitud Sur con el meridiano de 67 grados de longitud Oeste.
Aquí están las fotos.
Volvimos hacia las camionetas con un apetito voraz, eran mas de las tres de la tarde y no habíamos almorzado.

- Rápido, rápido, que todavía nos queda otra confluencia por hacer antes de que se ponga el sol !!!

Si deseas leer la travesía completa con todas las confluencias que visitamos este año, visita:
VIAJEROS a la Caza de confluencias 2004.
Si deseas ver las confluencias que cazamos el año pasado, visita:
VIAJEROS a la Caza de confluencias 2003.

English

08-Aug-2004 -- On VIAJEROS (travelers) we meet friends, new and old, with the objective to look over the Great Argentine Geography.
We always have good excuse to find an unknown place.
With the challenge of "hunting" confluences we find a motivation to get closer to places that don’t have many tourist interest but yes they show the beautiful sights of this country.
This year we have the purpose of hunting 20 confluences in 10 days.
The S32 W66 was one of them, really the 4th.
We where 8 peoples and 4 trucks

On Saturday 7 of August we already made S34 W65 and S33 W66, on the morning of the 8 of August we made S32 W66, we where trying to hurry up to make two more on that day.
The first one was the S32 W67 , this one is on San Juan Province, on the area of Sierra las Guayaguas, antique places of cowboys that attack and assault the covered wagon and old times travelers that dare to go trough those deserts.
The satellite photographs show us that we hade to leave the comfortable Road RN20 with north direction to Barzola place, over a precarious road of sand and dirt.
This is a region where not far away on time exist and still can been seen, undercover aircraft landing spots. That where used by contrabandist .
After running about 30km of this road and nearby Barzola, we start searching the path that will get closer to the west, where the confluence was.

We only get ahead of a gate with a chains and locks. We went back to principal road. We get inside a dry water stream, that close itself on thorny bushes. Lucky ahead was a recent open path, that take us directly to the confluence !!!
Unlucky only at 3000 meters the path end on a abandoned corrals and artificial small lagoon. Well down from the vehicles and to walk.

This was 3000meters avoiding thorny bushes , one way , so that you can see the photographs, of the exact site, where the parallel south 32 and the meridian west 67 cross themselves, and after again 3000 meters back. Here the photographs.
We went back to the trucks very hungry, it was 3 o’clock on the afternoon a not yet lunched. Fast, fast, we still had to make other confluence before the sun sets!!

If you wish to read the complete trip with all the confluences that we visit this year,visit :
Confluences Hunting 2004
If you wish to read the confluences hunting of the year before, visit:
Confluences Hunting 2003

Italiano

08-Aug-2004 -- In VIAJEROS ci riuniamo tra amici, alcuni conosciuti ed altri nuovi, col solo proposito di percorrere e conoscere l’Argentina.
Sempre cerchiamo un pretesto per andare in qualche posto remoto e sconosciuto, al di fuori dei circuiti turistici tradizionali.
La caccia di confluenze e’ un buon motivo per percorrere migliaia di chilometri su strade e stradine sconosciute ai piu’.
Quest’anno ci siamo proposti di visitare 20 confluenze in 10 giorni.
Il giorno sabato 8 Agosto avevamo gia’ visitato la S32 W66 di mattina presto, per la prossima proseguiamo sulla RN20, che entra nella provincia di San Juan, attraversa la Sierra di Guayaguas, zona dove i banditi assaltavano le diligenze e chiunque osasse passare nello stile Far West.
Lasciata la RN20 entriamo in un cammino sabbioso verso nord, e’ una zona dove si vedono piste di atterraggio dei contrabbandieri, dopo 30 km vicino a Barzola troviamo un cancello chiuso, torniamo indietro e ci inoltriamo nel letto di un fiume secco, dopo un po’ Arriviamo in una zona di folti cespugli spinosi, siamo a 3000 metri dalla meta e dobbiamo camminare.
Machete e via, percorriamo i 3000 metri, foto e ritorno, arriviamo ai veicoli stanchi ed affamati, sono le tre passate, pero’ e’ fatta.