ARGENTINA.
Definitive stamps.
Inca Bridge (Puente del Inca), Mendoza.
Fourth stamp in a set of 7, issued on 30.06.1971.
Face value: 10 cents of Argentinian peso.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Printed by Casa de Moneda de la Nación, Buenos Aires.
Size: 27 x 37 mm.
Catalogues
- Gz (Argentina) No. 1083.
- Michel No. 1097.
- Scott No. 929.
- StampWorld No. 1121.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1305.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 886.
The Inca Bridge (in Spanish, Puente del Inca), is a natural arch located in Mendoza Province at 2,740 m (8,990 ft) above sea level, that forms a bridge suspended at 19.2 m (63 ft) over the Las Cuevas River, a tributary of the Mendoza River. It is 53.4 m (175.19 ft) long, 27.6 m (90.55 ft) wide, and 10.2 m2 (109.79 sq ft) thick. Both glaciers and hot springs participated in the formation of the arch. In March 1835, Charles Darwin visited the site and made some drawings of the bridge with large stalactites. At the beginning of the 20th century there was a large thermal complex and a monastery that used thermal waters to cure certain diseases. The arch is part of the Andean Qhapaqñan road system, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. By a 1992 decree of the Argentine government, the intangible zone of Puente del Inca was regulated, defining an area of high restriction and another of attenuated restriction.
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