Salvador Mazza

Salvador Mazza or Profesor Salvador Mazza, popularly known as Pocitos because of the name of the railroad station, is located 620 km (6 hours) from the city of Salta, right next to the border with Bolivia.

National Route No. 34 and an important branch of the General Belgrano Railroad connect the city of Salvador Mazza with the rest of Argentina and with Tarija, in Bolivia. As it is a border town, there is a great commercial and transit movement of visitors and local inhabitants; it also has the headquarters of the Customs Administration.

Salvador Mazza celebrates in May the feast in honor of the Virgin of Luján, patron saint of the town. The history of Salvador Mazza begins with its foundation on August 30, 1947 and since the beginning of the century or even before, it has been a social and frontier space, firstly with the occupation of the valley formed by the Sierras de Ipaguazú to the East and by the Sierras de Aguaragüe or Tartagal, by aboriginal groups, and later incorporated to the national territory, populated by Creoles and immigrants of various nationalities, thus becoming the last population link in the north of Argentina.

You can visit places such as Plaza 9 de Julio, the Pórtico de la Patria, the Nuestra Señora de Lujan Church, the waterfalls in La Toma, the Municipal Building, Plaza Paseo Güemes, Camping La Foca and the Itiyuro Dam.