Horse riding holidays in the Province of Córdoba, Argentina

Home of the Peruvian Paso horse

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The home of Peruvian Paso horse breeding and dressage offers you a complete experience in harmony with nature and the beauty of the Traslasierra Valley, in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.

We invite you to get to know the life of an Argentine estancia totally dedicated to the breeding, dressage and training of the best Peruvian Paso horses for equestrian routes.

The landscape surrounding the old colonial mansion of the ranch is one of beautiful mountains, the foothills of which are practically on the house.

We are talking about Estancia Haras Ampascachi, which is an excellent option for a complete and unique experience that will remain in your heart and memory forever.

What awaits you at the Estancia?

First of all, a warm welcome to the house that we will gladly share with you and look forward to showing you the horses and life here.

Not only will you share the gaucho customs of the area, but every day you can ride to different places in the Traslasierra Valley, returning at sunset to clean up, relax and have dinner of the delicious regional food offered to you by the estancia's chef.

You can combine a very relaxed stay, enjoying the tranquility that surrounds the house, with the swimming pool, tennis court and daily horse riding routes.

You will have the opportunity to participate in the activities of dressage and training of the horses, and even learn the basic principles of equine learning.

The Estancia and its history

Accommodation is at our Estancia Haras Ampascachi, one of the most beautiful places in the region, with colonial beauty preserved and cared for in every detail, offering comfort and first-class services in a country setting.

The Haras Ampascachi Ranch, which today covers 8 hectares surrounding what was the center of the old “Gran Estancia de la Quebrada” from the beginning of the 19th century, which had more than eighty thousand hectares and was one of the most important ranches in the region due to its intense livestock and tobacco production.

Equestrian activities

During your stay at the ranch, you will be able to witness the way in which we professionally train our horses, applying, in the case of dressage, scientific principles based on equine ethology and the Learning Theory, in order to have horses suitable for the demands of any of our equestrian programs.

We will give you the chance - with the advice of our guide, and of Ramón, the human GPS - to try out different horses and to choose the one you adapt to best.

You will have half-day horse rides, where you will leave in the morning or in the afternoon from the Estancia, touring the wonderful places and landscapes that surround it, and where the ravines, rivers and prairies make up the diversity of landscapes in this region.

You can also do full-day routes, leaving the Estancia in the morning and returning in the evening, after having enjoyed a Creole lunch in the mountains or at a ranch dedicated to rural activities typical of the valley.

During two days of the stay at our ranch, we will take a horseback ride that will take us to the Taruca Pampa ranch, located on the slopes of the Sierras Grandes, very close to the Pampa de Achala and the Sierra de los Gigantes. This is an exciting experience.

The Taruca Pampa ranch covers more than four thousand hectares and is dedicated to cattle breeding (cows), the natural environment in which it is set has no limits.

It is crossed by the Taruca Pampa river, which gives the ranch its name, and along the course of this river through the ranch we can see beautiful waterfalls, gorges and cliffs over a hundred meters high.

In the iodized waters of this river we can find trout which we can eventually fish for, if any of you are interested.

On this ranch we will help the gauchos round up their livestock, on horseback, to corral them and carry out the corresponding activity, depending on the time of year, such as branding, vaccinating, deworming and even identifying them by ear tag. The gauchos will also teach us how to rope the cattle.

We sleep in cabins near the center of Taruca Pampa, where we will be looked after by the owners:

The hospitable Legria family, a family that has dedicated their lives to making these rugged fields an area that gives them everything they need to live. Father, mother and six children who will make us feel at home.

Here we will share a lamb on the stake for dinner, we will be able to see their vegetable garden where fruit trees of all kinds abound, herbs and all the vegetables that are needed, “it seems incredible, but this family has made this rocky place a real garden”.

Nono, a town in the Traslasierra Valley

On some of our full-day or half-day tours we will have to pass through the emblematic and traditional town of Nono.

Nono is a town steeped in history, with deep roots in the aboriginal-Hispanic past.

This town was the last indigenous settlement in Traslasierra and the scene of disputes and lawsuits between indigenous people and colonizers in the 17th and 18th centuries.

In the surrounding area, vestiges of the Comechingon civilization and significant archaeological sites were discovered.

Capilla de los Algarrobos “Nuestra Señora de Fátima”

On one of our horse rides, very close to the Haras Ampascachi ranch, we will visit the old “Chapel of Our Lady of Fatima”.

It is a mountain chapel, located at the foot of the Achala mountain range at 1150 meters above sea level, and was built in 1949.

Built entirely of stone, its patron saint is Our Lady of Fatima, whose feast day is October 13.

The place where the chapel stands has a particularly beautiful landscape.

It has direct access to the Altas Cumbres trail via the old path marked out by the Cura Gaucho and which is called “Empedrado”.

Why Estancia Haras Ampascachi?

Because Estancia Haras Ampascachi is the equestrian center where Ampascachi Horse Riding Holidays was born, to take the Peruvian Paso horse and the practice of Equestrian Tourism to different parts of Argentina, so that riders from all over the world can get to know our country, riding on an equestrian jewel, which took man 500 years to develop.

Because it is where we started breeding Peruvian Paso horses, we brought the first horses here, we learned to ride, and then to break and train them, we saw the mares give birth to their first foals and where we grew up organizing horse treks with friends that lasted many days.

Estancia Haras Ampascachi is the place where we are happy, where we model our equestrian soul, like yours, and sharing it with you is a source of very special pride for us.