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Argentina’s Giant Guitar of Trees Endures as a Family Memorial

A farmer honored his late wife by planting about 7,000 trees into a 1.1-kilometer guitar now recognized from the air.

Overview

  • The guitar-shaped grove covers roughly 25 hectares near General Levalle in Córdoba and can be seen only from above.
  • Farmer Pedro Ureta and his children planted the layout by hand after professional landscapers declined the project.
  • California cypress trees outline the body, blue eucalyptus depict the six strings, and cypress varieties mark the bridge.
  • NASA has photographed the formation, and it appears on Google Earth at 33°52'04.3" S 63°59'16.9" W.
  • Graciela Yraizoz proposed the idea before her death in 1977, and the couple’s four children now maintain the site after Ureta’s 2019 passing.