YATASTO POST

During the 18th century and part of the 19th, the Yatasto locality was the main mail and passenger post for those travelling between Salta and Tucumán. The Yatasto hacienda was established in the 18th century, property of Francisco Toledo, and it reached its peak splendour during that period with 5000 heads of cattle. During the 19th century, it was the residence of Coronel Don Vicente de Toledo Pimentel.

It is located in the surrounding area of Rosario de la Frontera, 2 kms away from the city of Metán, and 150 kms from Salta, along the Ruta Nacional Nº 34 National Route, leading to San Miguel de Tucumán.

General Juan Martín de Pueyrredón positioned here his encampment on 1812, after retreating from Alto Perú (currently Bolivia). Later, he transferred the army's command to General Manuel Belgrano. The meeting between Generals San Martín and Belgrano took place at this post, when the former assumed the control of the army on the 30th of January of 1814.

The hacienda house, which has remained until the present time, dates back to late18th century or early 19th. It was originally part of the "sitting room" of the old hacienda house. Though it served as a post, the opening of new roads and the development of new ways of communications and transportation made it change its activities to agriculture and stockbreeding.

The building has two very different stories: the ground floor, whose various adjacent rooms faces the gallery with wooden pillars and low roof that ends at a room protruding towards the front. On the other side, stands a room viewing the valley from a long balcony, like those seen in the city of Salta.

It is currently a museum, and holds a reconstruction of a rural house of that time. It is a National Historical Monument.