Paddling near Cutral-Có, Neuquén

Cutral-Có sits in the northern Patagonian steppe of Neuquén province, a high-desert oil city flanked by the Río Neuquén to the south and a series of reservoirs formed by dams along that river system. The marquee paddling draw is the Río Neuquén itself — a major Andean-fed river known for class III–IV whitewater in its upper reaches — along with the flatwater expanses of Embalse Ezequiel Ramos Mexía and Embalse Arroyito nearby.