The very helpful main tourist office (daily 8am-8pm; tel 0299/442-3268, fax 443-2438; turismo@neuquen.gov.ar ) is at FA©lix San MartA­n 182, two blocks down Calle RA­o Negro from the bus terminal. It has an excellent map of the town plus information on the whole province, including a good regional road map.

It's fairly easy to find your way round town: you'll find everything you need in the microcentro , which effectively comprises the area to the north of the RN22, three blocks on either side of the central boulevard. Where it crosses the obsolete railway tracks, three blocks north of the RN22, this boulevard's name changes from Avenida Olascoaga to Avenida Argentina . All of NeuquA©n's other north-south streets likewise change names as they cross the railway. Streets that run east-west change name as they cross the central boulevard. Do not confuse FA©lix San MartA­n (the RN22 to the east of Olascoaga), with Avenida San MartA­n, running west from Avenida Argentina to the Museo Municipal, one block north of the railway tracks. Unusually for an Argentinian town, NeuquA©n has no central square and, stranger still, only the merest scrap of a Plaza San MartA­n. If anything rates as the central square, it would have to be the partially landscaped park on either side of the railway tracks.