[1] Las Perlas is a small, but fast-growing bedroom community of the Neuquén - Plottier - Cipolletti metro area.

While Cipolletti's main urban area is located in the General Roca Department, Las Perlas, like the whole southern part of the municipality, is part of the El Cuy Department.

Las Perlas was established as an informal community after 1958, when a forestry company bought land in the area.

There is also a dirt road, Ruta Provincial 7, linking Las Perlas directly to Cipolletti across a bridge near Isla Jordan, an island in the Río Negro east of the confluence between the Limay and the Neuquén.

Local bus line 102 links Las Perlas to Neuquén's city center.