Vicuña Mackenna is a town located within the Río Cuarto Department, Córdoba Province, Argentina.

The town is located south of the province of Cordoba, in the Department of Río Cuarto some 300 km.

In 1885 a main railway started to pass for Vicuña Mackenna joining Buenos Aires and Mendoza.

On 6 June the province governor Vicente Olmos ordered the creation of "Pueblo Torres".

In May 1911, the Córdoba governor Félix Tomás Garzón, solved for decree that Pueblo Torres got the name of station railway Vicuña Mackenna.