Parque provincial Ibatín, Archaeological park in Monteros department, Argentina.

Parque Provincial Ibatín is an archaeological site containing the remains of a Spanish settlement arranged in a grid pattern on the ground. The area includes foundations of residential structures, public buildings, and religious structures that you can explore on foot.

The site was the original center of San Miguel de Tucumán, founded in 1565 before the city relocated around 120 years later. The abandoned foundations document the transition of this early Spanish presence in the region.

The ruins reveal how people lived and worked during Spanish settlement in this region. You can still see the foundations of houses, administrative buildings, and chapels that give a sense of daily life from that era.

The park lies about 70 km southeast of San Miguel de Tucumán, roughly 7 km west of León Rouges in Monteros department, near National Route 38. A vehicle is the practical way to reach this remote site. The protected area was created by provincial law n.º 3363/65 in 1965.

The cedars, native walnuts, pink lapachos, tipas and cebiles recorded around the 1565 founding grew in subtropical jungle; the damp setting is blamed for the town's abandonment 120 years later. Foundations of houses, the cabildo and temples survive across a grid of about nine blocks.