Cholila

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid arrived in Cholila in 1901, fleeing the Pinkertons, and built a log cabin on a homestead above the lake that still stands — original timber on private ranch land, viewable from the road and never a museum. Around it, four green valleys converge on a small Andean town of lakes, forest tracks and estancias that have worked the same ground since the settler decades, looking much as it did when two famous outlaws judged it remote enough to start over.

The pair ranched here from 1901 to 1905 under honest local reputations while the detectives who hunted them closed in — a history the valley wears lightly rather than performs. The cabin is private property: pointed out from the road, entered only by direct invitation, which is exactly how a working valley should hold its legend. The town itself supports a genuine multi-day stay through the municipal visitor office — lawful lake and trail access, cycling and fishing through current permits and providers, cultural circuits, and the drive in through Los Alerces National Park standing as an experience in its own right. The valley's asado tradition runs deep enough to carry a national festival's name; most months, dirt roads, grazing horses and working gauchos keep tourists genuinely outnumbered.