# Roots Earth in Mendoza: audio stories about 42 places Canonical: https://rootsearth.com/cities/mendoza Published: 16 September 2026 Roots Earth has audio stories about 42 places in Mendoza, Argentina, in Latin America. The Mendoza stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Mendoza, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people. The 42 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026. ## The 42 places in Mendoza with audio stories In the order the app shows them. 1. Cerro de la Gloria 2. General San Martín Park 3. Plaza Independencia 4. Teatro Independencia 5. Monument to the Army of the Andes 6. Foundational Area Museum 7. Plaza España 8. Plaza Italia 9. Plaza Chile 10. Plaza San Martín 11. Avenida Sarmiento 12. National University of Cuyo 13. Estadio Malvinas Argentinas 14. Mendoza Zoological Park 15. Mendoza Wine Region 16. Bodega Catena Zapata 17. Bodega Norton 18. Trapiche Winery 19. Lagarde Winery 20. Terrazas de los Andes 21. Argentina Wine Route 22. Aconcagua 23. Aconcagua Provincial Park 24. Puente del Inca 25. Uspallata 26. Potrerillos 27. Cacheuta Thermal Spa 28. Metrotranvía Mendoza 29. Godoy Cruz 30. Guaymallén 31. Las Heras 32. Maipú 33. Luján de Cuyo 34. Chacras de Coria 35. Greater Mendoza 36. Gimnasia y Esgrima de Mendoza 37. Club Sportivo Independiente Rivadavia 38. Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba 39. Estadio Mendocino de Hockey 40. Nicolino Locche Stadium 41. Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport 42. Mendoza Province ## Is there an audio guide for Cerro de la Gloria? Yes. Cerro de la Gloria has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. It is place 1 of the 42 Mendoza places in the app, at -32.8895, -68.8836. Every one of the other 41 places in the list above has the same two stories. Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself. ## How to use Roots Earth in Mendoza Open Roots Earth and choose Mendoza. The city has its own map of places with all 42 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order. You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. --- **In full** All 42 places in Mendoza, in the app's order, with their coordinates. ## All 42 places in Mendoza, with coordinates Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print. ### 1. Cerro de la Gloria - Coordinates: -32.8895, -68.8836 - In one line: Cerro de la Gloria is a low hill rising from General San Martín Park, crowned by the bronze Monument to the Army of the Andes inaugurated in 1914. ### 2. General San Martín Park - Coordinates: -32.890359, -68.871212 - In one line: General San Martín Park is Mendoza's vast green heart, begun in 1896 to a design by landscape architect Carlos Thays. Spanning 393 hectares, it holds a lake, a rose garden, ornate iron gates, and the hill of Cerro de la Gloria. ### 3. Plaza Independencia - Coordinates: -32.88944, -68.84528 - In one line: Plaza Independencia is the central square of Mendoza's earthquake-resistant grid, laid out after the 1861 disaster. Spanning a full city block, it gathers fountains, tiled paths, an underground museum, and the four satellite plazas set around it. ### 4. Teatro Independencia - Coordinates: -32.88847, -68.84583 - In one line: Teatro Independencia is Mendoza's premier theater, opened in 1925 on Plaza Independencia. Designed by Alfredo Israel in French Academy style, its 730-seat auditorium hosts the Provincial Philharmonic and remains the city's leading stage. ### 5. Monument to the Army of the Andes - Coordinates: -32.88948, -68.88358 - In one line: Sculptor Juan Manuel Ferrari crowned it with a winged figure of Freedom breaking her chains. ### 6. Foundational Area Museum - Coordinates: -32.88333, -68.83389 - In one line: The Foundational Area Museum, opened in 1993 on Pedro del Castillo square, stands over the ruins of colonial Mendoza, founded in 1561 and destroyed by the 1861 earthquake. Beneath glass lie the old fountain and paved roads of the lost city. ### 7. Plaza España - Coordinates: -32.89139, -68.84167 - In one line: Plaza España is one of the four satellite squares around Plaza Independencia, celebrating the bond between Spain and Argentina. Inaugurated in 1949, it glows with Andalusian majolica tiles and a central monument carved in San Juan travertine. ### 8. Plaza Italia - Coordinates: -32.89139, -68.84889 - In one line: Plaza Italia is one of the four satellite squares set two blocks off the corners of Plaza Independencia. Tiled, shaded, and crowned by a she-wolf, it honors the Italian immigrants who shaped Mendoza. ### 9. Plaza Chile - Coordinates: -32.8875, -68.84889 - In one line: Plaza Chile is one of the four satellite squares around Plaza Independencia, dedicated to Argentine-Chilean friendship. Its monument recalls San Martín and O'Higgins, whose joined armies crossed the Andes to win independence. ### 10. Plaza San Martín - Coordinates: -32.8875, -68.84167 - In one line: Plaza San Martín is one of the four satellite squares around Plaza Independencia, set in the banking district. Its equestrian statue honors José de San Martín, who organized the Army of the Andes from Mendoza. ### 11. Avenida Sarmiento - Coordinates: -32.88944, -68.84694 - In one line: Avenida Sarmiento runs east-west through Plaza Independencia, its eastern stretch pedestrianized as the city's café and shopping promenade. Plane trees, open acequias, and outdoor tables make it the lively spine of downtown Mendoza. ### 12. National University of Cuyo - Coordinates: -32.88065, -68.878306 - In one line: The National University of Cuyo, founded in 1939, is the main public university of Argentina's Cuyo region. Its sprawling campus beside General San Martín Park gathers schools of medicine, law, arts, engineering, and agriculture. ### 13. Estadio Malvinas Argentinas - Coordinates: -32.88972, -68.88 - In one line: Estadio Malvinas Argentinas, opened in 1978 for the FIFA World Cup, stands in General San Martín Park beside Cerro de la Gloria. Designed by Rafael Viñoly, it seats around 42,000, the largest stadium in Mendoza. ### 14. Mendoza Zoological Park - Coordinates: -32.89556, -68.88278 - In one line: The Mendoza Zoological Park climbs the hillside of General San Martín Park, terraced into the slopes. Once a traditional zoo, it is being reshaped into an eco-park focused on conservation and the animals of the Andes. ### 15. Mendoza Wine Region - Coordinates: -32.88972, -68.84444 - In one line: Mendoza is the heart of Argentine wine, producing nearly two-thirds of the country's output. High desert vineyards, fed by Andean meltwater and planted up to 1,200 metres, made Malbec world famous beneath the snow peaks. ### 16. Bodega Catena Zapata - Coordinates: -33.00417, -68.91639 - In one line: Founded in 1902 by Italian immigrant Nicola Catena, this Agrelo winery pioneered high-altitude Malbec. Its Maya pyramid building, opened around 2001, anchors a family estate named World's Best Vineyard in 2023. ### 17. Bodega Norton - Coordinates: -33.06667, -68.93333 - In one line: Founded in 1895 by English engineer Edmund James Palmer Norton, this Luján de Cuyo estate is among Mendoza's oldest and largest wineries. The Swarovski family acquired it in 1989, farming over 1,200 hectares. ### 18. Trapiche Winery - Coordinates: -32.99528, -68.7825 - In one line: Founded in 1883 by Tiburcio Benegas, Trapiche is one of Argentina's largest and most historic wineries. Its restored early-20th-century building near Maipú anchors a brand now part of Grupo Peñaflor, exported to over 40 countries. ### 19. Lagarde Winery - Coordinates: -32.97444, -68.86583 - In one line: Established in 1897 in Luján de Cuyo, Lagarde is one of Mendoza's oldest wineries, still working vines planted in 1906. Owned by the Pescarmona family since 1969, it was ranked among the world's best wineries by Forbes in 2025. ### 20. Terrazas de los Andes - Coordinates: -33.005, -68.93 - In one line: Founded in 1996 by Moët Hennessy and housed in a restored 1895 winery in Luján de Cuyo, Terrazas de los Andes matches each grape to its ideal altitude. It co-created the acclaimed Cheval des Andes with Château Cheval Blanc. ### 21. Argentina Wine Route - Coordinates: -32.99, -68.86 - In one line: The Argentina Wine Route is a roughly 2,000-kilometre belt of wine country linking Mendoza, Salta, San Juan and Patagonia. With about 2,000 wineries open to visitors, it draws over a million wine tourists each year through Andean vineyards. ### 22. Aconcagua - Coordinates: -32.65306, -70.01167 - In one line: Aconcagua rises 6,967 meters in Mendoza Province, the highest peak in the Americas and outside Asia. An extinct stratovolcano in the Andes, it draws climbers from across the world toward its windswept summit. ### 23. Aconcagua Provincial Park - Coordinates: -32.76389, -69.79583 - In one line: Aconcagua Provincial Park protects more than 70,000 hectares of high Andes around the Americas' tallest peak. Created in 1983, it shelters condors, guanacos, and pumas across valleys, glaciers, and the Horcones lagoon in Mendoza Province. ### 24. Puente del Inca - Coordinates: -32.82662, -69.9111 - In one line: Puente del Inca is a natural stone arch over the Las Cuevas River in Mendoza Province, stained vivid yellow and orange by mineral hot springs. Beside it stand the ruins of a thermal spa destroyed by an avalanche in 1965. ### 25. Uspallata - Coordinates: -32.56667, -69.31667 - In one line: Uspallata is a high mountain village in Mendoza Province, 2,039 meters up on the old route to Chile. Surrounded by Andean peaks, it holds the egg-shaped Las Bóvedas kilns, ancient petroglyphs, and a long history of crossings and mining. ### 26. Potrerillos - Coordinates: -32.95, -69.183 - In one line: Potrerillos is a mountain resort village south of Mendoza, set above a turquoise reservoir formed by a 116-meter dam completed in 2003 on the Mendoza River. It draws weekenders for rafting, hiking, and watersports against an Andean backdrop. ### 27. Cacheuta Thermal Spa - Coordinates: -33.03, -69.1 - In one line: Cacheuta Thermal Spa sits in a canyon of the Mendoza River, fed by natural hot springs in the Andean foothills. A luxurious 1904 resort was swept away by a flood in 1934; today pools, mud baths, and a surviving campanile draw bathers. ### 28. Metrotranvía Mendoza - Coordinates: -32.89056, -68.85028 - In one line: The Metrotranvía is Mendoza's light rail line, opened in 2012 along a former railway corridor. Running about 17 kilometers through 26 stations from Las Heras to Maipú, the Green Line links the metropolitan area with quiet electric trams. ### 29. Godoy Cruz - Coordinates: -32.91667, -68.83333 - In one line: Godoy Cruz is a busy southern neighbour of Mendoza city, named in 1909 for the patriot Tomás Godoy Cruz. Once wine warehouses and railway sidings, it now blends industry, parks, and a beloved Primera División football club. ### 30. Guaymallén - Coordinates: -32.89, -68.79 - In one line: Guaymallén is Mendoza's most populous department, founded in 1858 just east of the capital. A patchwork of 21 districts, it is a workshop of food and sweets, busy markets, and the wide irrigated farmland that feeds the metropolis. ### 31. Las Heras - Coordinates: -32.85, -68.82 - In one line: Las Heras spreads north of Mendoza city toward the mountains, named for the independence general Juan Gregorio de las Heras. An industrious department of nearly 200,000 people, it climbs into the Andean foothills, the El Challao hills, and their hot springs. ### 32. Maipú - Coordinates: -32.97, -68.75 - In one line: Maipú sits at the heart of a famous wine-growing region southeast of Mendoza city, its name echoing the independence battle of 1818. Vineyards, olive groves, historic bodegas, and a wine museum draw visitors into the cradle of Argentine winemaking. ### 33. Luján de Cuyo - Coordinates: -32.998, -68.873 - In one line: Luján de Cuyo rises southwest of Mendoza city, high-altitude home of Argentina's first protected wine appellation, declared in 1993. Its alluvial vineyards around 1,000 metres produce the country's most celebrated Malbec, framed by the Andes. ### 34. Chacras de Coria - Coordinates: -32.98333, -68.87778 - In one line: Chacras de Coria is a leafy, easygoing town within Luján de Cuyo, a few kilometres from Mendoza city. Sitting in a green oasis at around 900 metres, it draws weekenders with its cafés, plazas, wineries, and a cherished antiques fair. ### 35. Greater Mendoza - Coordinates: -32.89, -68.84 - In one line: Greater Mendoza is the metropolitan sprawl around the provincial capital, Argentina's fourth-largest urban area. Six departments, from Capital to Luján de Cuyo, fuse into one wine-country conurbation of over a million people, laced with irrigation channels beneath the Andes. ### 36. Gimnasia y Esgrima de Mendoza - Coordinates: -32.895, -68.855 - In one line: Gimnasia y Esgrima de Mendoza, founded in 1908, is the city's black-and-white football club nicknamed the Lobo. It plays at the Estadio Víctor Antonio Legrotaglie, a working-class shrine to one of the region's most beloved players. ### 37. Club Sportivo Independiente Rivadavia - Coordinates: -32.91, -68.835 - In one line: Independiente Rivadavia, founded in 1913 and known as the Azul, is Mendoza's dark-blue football club. From the Estadio Bautista Gargantini it reached the top flight and lifted the 2025 Copa Argentina, one of the province's proudest sporting moments. ### 38. Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba - Coordinates: -32.9167, -68.8333 - In one line: Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba, founded in 1921, is Mendoza's most successful top-flight club, nicknamed the Tomba after a historic winery. It finished second in Argentina's 2017 to 2018 league season. ### 39. Estadio Mendocino de Hockey - Coordinates: -32.892, -68.878 - In one line: The Estadio Mendocino de Hockey, opened in 2013 inside General San Martín Park, is Argentina's largest field hockey stadium. Built for the Women's Pan American Cup, its water-based turf has hosted top international tournaments beneath the Andes. ### 40. Nicolino Locche Stadium - Coordinates: -32.913, -68.837 - In one line: The Nicolino Locche Stadium honors Mendoza's greatest boxer, the world light welterweight champion nicknamed The Untouchable. A municipal sports center for basketball and indoor games, it keeps alive the memory of a defensive genius born nearby in 1939. ### 41. Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport - Coordinates: -32.83167, -68.79278 - In one line: Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport, known as El Plumerillo, is Mendoza's main gateway northeast of the city. Sharing its grounds with a military air base, it links the wine capital to Argentina and South America beneath the Andes. ### 42. Mendoza Province - Coordinates: -32.89861, -68.84639 - In one line: Mendoza Province, in western Argentina, runs from the high Andes and towering Aconcagua to dry eastern plains. Home to over two million people and most of the nation's wine, it is irrigated by Andean meltwater and famed for Malbec. ## Roots Earth in short Roots Earth has audio stories about 5,665 places in 130 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people. - No account - Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection - Audio stories in English and German in every city, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 of the 130 cities Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app). ## More from Roots Earth - [Latin America in the Roots Earth catalogue](https://rootsearth.com/cities#latin-america): every city in Latin America with its number of places and its languages. - [What Roots Earth is](https://rootsearth.com/app): the app in one page, how it works and what is in it. - [Questions travellers ask](https://rootsearth.com/faq): the cities, the languages, the account, listening without a connection. - [The 7 languages](https://rootsearth.com/languages): the seven languages with their codes and how many cities each one covers. - [Buenos Aires](https://rootsearth.com/cities/buenos-aires): 52 places in Argentina with audio stories. - [Cordoba](https://rootsearth.com/cities/cordoba-argentina): 44 places in Argentina with audio stories. - [Salta](https://rootsearth.com/cities/salta): 40 places in Argentina with audio stories. - [Santa Fe](https://rootsearth.com/cities/santa-fe): 40 places in Argentina with audio stories. 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