House Museum Horacio Quiroga

Situated on the Parana River in the village of San Ignacio Misiones, vast landscapes surrounded by jungle and a few blocks from the ruins of San Ignacio Mini, is the Museum House which comemorates Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga . He was was born in Jump on December 31, 1879. He lived here on a canyon on the river, facing a landscape that is a synthesis of the fury and beauty of the jungle that is in his stories. He was intrigued with the place on his 1st visit in the year 1903 when accompanying Leopoldo Lugones on an expedition to the Jesuit ruins. He went back to San Ignacio 6 years later and with his wife.