Tilcarallajta is a multidisciplinary and independent Cultural Management Program, originated and developed in the Quebrada de Humahuaca.

Founded in 2010, it was created by those who, above all, love the Quebrada de Humahuaca, the province of Jujuy and northwestern Argentina. We feel a deep commitment to the region which springs from a relationship of decades and is based on the admiration and respect this extraordinary, rich, authentic, dynamic and complex culture deserves.

We believe the Quebrada de Humahuaca is heritage today. We work to know and make known all its natural and cultural wealth, interacting with a large group of experts and connoisseurs who each day nourish our inexhaustible curiosity about this wonderful world. By appreciating and understanding both the past and the present we are propelled into the future with the aim of facilitating the continuation of a cultural tradition.

We strengthen bonds. We develop our contents through the testimony, talent and work of local people, whose lives today carry the legacy of an ancient culture that has survived to this day. People involved in our projects include farmers, photographers, painters and sculptors, designers, musicians, people of the cultural environment and botanists. Their daily lives are filled with a 10,000-year-old cultural tradition that makes them look, feel and think life from another world-viewpoint.

We learn as we work. We interact with our projects and construct meaning by doing. Our working tool is an efficient, transparent and sustainable management plan. With optimism and perseverance, we carry out all the necessary steps to build, day by day, a creative cultural management tool.

We contribute to the conservation of heritage resources and the development of sustainable tourism in this cultural heritage asset known as the Quebrada de Humahuaca. Our programs promote and enhance the value of the different aspects of the artistic and cultural heritage through innovative and high-quality activities while helping protect them for the benefit of future generations.

We want the natural and cultural heritage of the Quebrada to be known and understood in other regions and cultures, and therefore our publications are written in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. These are printed books, e-books and brochures which aim to transmit the identity of the region to cultural tourism as well as to the local, regional, national and global public.

Our place in the world is Tilcara, one of the most beautiful villages of the Quebrada de Humahuaca. Llajta means village or hamlet in Quechua. Tilcara is our llajta. So Tilcarallajta means "people of Tilcara."

Thanks for joining us
Sandra Figoni Prado
Editor Tilcarallajta