The village is an important military area, with a sedé of the 8° Battalion of Artillery of Montaña and the Regiment 16 of Infantry of Montaña. Their facilities and residential neighborhoods configure the architectural unit of the town, where they highlight small chalets of red roofs.

In 1891 the place had great impulse, when being inaugurated the tract Mendoza-Uspallata of the Railroad Trasandino. It continued being the forced step of traffic to the mountain range that was channeled by the one on the way to Villavicencio in that time. Toward 1965 the route opened up to Chile for Potrerillos that reestablished the most direct and dense communication. The 14 tunnels that perforate the rock, were paymasters in 1978.

The village is an important military area, with a sedé of the 8° Battalion of Artillery of Montaña and the Regiment 16 of Infantry of Montaña. Their facilities and residential neighborhoods configure the architectural unit of the town, where they highlight small chalets of red roofs.

The main historical-tourist attractiveness of the place is the Vaults of Uspallata (MHN)

These interesting earth constructions, covered by attractive pointed domes, date of ends of the XVIII century and they were a plant for the treatment of minerals. In front, there are still remains of foundry ovens and a mill for mineral mill that was worked by the water coming from the stream.

During the general's government San Martin (1814-1816) the exploitation of the mines of Uspallata was impelled, being activated the use of the vaults. Their good known history goes back at 1816, when Brother Luis Beltrán used the ovens to fuse the metals, with those that weapons and canyons of the Army of the Andes were manufactured. These remarkable buildings have had reconstructions in 1950 and 1976.

To return to Mendoza has two alternatives: to take the same road or to return for the variant of the RN7 that crosses Villavicencio and their terma.