Capilla de Achango, Rural Catholic church in Las Flores, San Juan, Argentina.

Capilla de Achango is a Catholic church on a hilltop in the Achango area, north of Las Flores in the Iglesia department of San Juan province, Argentina. Its adobe walls are almost one metre thick and rendered with goat manure and kneaded earth; the earthen floor is covered with loom-woven rugs. A small hamlet of adobe houses surrounds it, with a cemetery a few metres away.

The Jesuits built the first chapel here in 1655; the present building was raised in 1787. It was declared a National Historic Monument for its historical and cultural value. The chapel stands on a hill above Las Flores, in the Iglesia department of San Juan province, with an adobe hamlet and a cemetery beside it.

The chapel is dedicated to the Virgin of Carmen, whose statue was brought from Cuzco by way of Chile. It has natural hair, a silver crown and an oil-painted mannequin body dressed in starched petticoats and a mantle. The figure is kept inside the chapel, which was founded under this invocation.

The chapel stands on a hilltop in the Achango area north of Las Flores, reached by a road through the Iglesia department; the coordinates are -30.289444, -69.197778. The adobe houses of the small hamlet, the cemetery with its iron gate and the old corrals lie within a few metres, so the visit is on foot. Daylight hours suit the walk.

The chapel stands on a hilltop ringed by a small hamlet of adobe houses; a few metres away lies the cemetery, noted for its wrought-iron gate and graves set directly in the earth. Old corrals and stands of poplars, fig and fruit trees complete the circuit around the building.