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Ledesma Visitors Center is the educational interpretation center of Ledesma and the neighboring communities. In this Center you can find information about the history of the company, our main activities and our bonds with our neighbors. We also have an auditory and an area for temporary exhibitions, used for different cultural activities of the community.
The Center is open to all visitors; admission is free and included in the Yungas tourist circuit.
Since its opening in 2008, Ledesma Visitors Center is implementing a training program destined to students from all educational levels. For that purpose, we have adjusted contents to the age and the particular interests of each educational institution. The museographic script of the Interpretation Center includes comprehensive and very pleasant content, enriched by a system of animated infographics and audiovisual elements that reproduces the production processes of sugar, paper, alcohol, juice and fruit business lines.
We also offer a program of special thematic discussions through an annual plan, updated every year, including the following modules:
Environment (primary and secondary school, post-secondary education and university)
Quality standards (post-secondary education and university)
Industrial safety and quality (post-secondary education and university)
Native Flora and Fauna (primary and secondary school)
Semiotic reading of Ledesma photographic archive and of the city Libertador Gral. San Martín (secondary school and post-secondary education level / special groups)
We also offer a program of special thematic discussions through an annual plan, updated every year, including the following modules:
Environment (primary and secondary school, post-secondary education and university)
Quality standards (post-secondary education and university)
Industrial safety and quality (post-secondary education and university)
Native Flora and Fauna (primary and secondary school)
Semiotic reading of Ledesma photographic archive and of the city Libertador Gral. San Martín (secondary school and post-secondary education level / special groups)
This is an interactive room where children can learn and stimulate their senses while getting to know the Yungas, Ledesma’s environment for more than 100 years, through science, arts and technology-based games.
Admission to this room is free. It also offers a booklet for teachers with pedagogical proposals to be prepared in advance to arrival.
Ledesma was founded as a sugarcane mill more than 100 years ago and has currently become the main sugar producer in Argentina. Ledesma Visitors Center is the most important open-doors interpretation Center currently offering free admission services to students, investors and the community as a whole.
Through a very agile tour, you will discover Ledesma’s main production activities relative to:
The Center has a hall for temporary exhibitions and an auditorium to conduct artistic and cultural activities.
Throughout the year, we support art, music, literature and drama activities and every season we launch cultural, educational and artistic events organized and coordinated by the Center’s team.
Ledesma S.A.A.I. was founded in 1908 as a sugarcane mill in Jujuy, and is an Argentine agro-industrial company that employs more than 6,000 people. Our Visitors Center was founded in the year of Ledesma’s centenary as a place providing for educational, cultural and social containment, open to the community.
Ledesma is a Corporation and its highest decision-making body is the Shareholder’s Meeting. The Board of Directors is in charge of the company’s strategic management and operational activities are conducted by our General Manager.
This Room shows Ledesma history, including the company’s long-term vision and how ongoing investing in innovation and state-of-the-art technology has added value through the integration of its activities; always providing for the alignment of its own economic growth with social development and environmental protection practices.
All Ledesma products are born from the earth, and its agro-industrial complex is located in the San Francisco Valley, in the Ledesma department of the Jujuy province. Surrounded by a landscape of subtropical mountain forests, also known as yungas. This territory, together with the missionary jungle, represents barely 2% of the country's continental surface, but concentrates 50% of its diversity of flora and fauna. As part of a linkage program with the schools of Ledesma region, in Jujuy, we carry out an intense plan of annual objectives including teachers and students from kindergartens, primary and secondary schools.
Since its opening, Ledesma Visitors Center has received more than 60,000 visitors and that figure increases every year.
More than 10,000 students from educational institutions visit the Center every year, and most of them come from schools located in the province of Jujuy.
As part of a linkage program with the schools of Ledesma region, in Jujuy, we carry out an intense plan of annual objectives including teachers and students from kindergartens, primary and secondary schools.
Since its opening, Ledesma Visitors Center has received more than 60,000 visitors and that figure increases every year.
More than 10,000 students from educational institutions visit the Center every year, and most of them come from schools located in the province of Jujuy.
Address: Calle Ing Luis María Blaquier N° 422 (4512) Libertador Gral San Martín-Prov de Jujuy-Argentina
Phone: 03886 429440 / 429449
Email: visitas@ledesma.com.ar
Luis María Blaquier 422
Libertador Gral. San Martín, Jujuy, Argentina
Tel: 03886 – 429440/429449