In Alpa Corral dwells a population of merely 650 souls. It is nestled within a peaceful valley full of ideal settings in which to spend the day. Alpa Corral is a Quechua voice for "stone corral". This locality is framed by the Sierra de los Comechingones and the Las Barracas River.

It offers the visitor the chance to practice a number of activities such as trekking, horse rides, mountain biking, swimming and trout fishing, as well as many others. Amongst its main natural attractions we can mention the Sauce Colorado and el Codito beaches; the Las Barracas River and the meeting point of the Talita and the Zarzamora Rivers.

Alpa Corral is at present a spirited tourist village lying over the course of the Barrancas River, presenting varied lodging infrastructure services, which comprise inns, hostelries, campsites and cabins.

Among its attractions we will first mention the old early-twentieth-century bridge at the Sarmiento Park. The extreme beauty of the surroundings wherein Alpa Corral is set into encourages the visitor to try on trekking, horse rides, trout fishing or riding elsewhere on mountain bikes.

You cannot miss visiting the Sauce Colorado and El Codito Beaches at the margins of the Barracas River, nor the Junction of Rivers, some five kilometres upstream, which is the meeting point of the El Talita and the Zarzamora Rivers, wherein the Barrancas River is born.

These lands constituted a portion of the San Bartolomé Ranch, which was owned by José Echenique. By the middle 19th century, his descendants handed Alpa Corral over to Silvestre Arias, who arranged the donation of this lands to the Villa's Foundation.