The 193.1 km stage on Saturday will be very terrible: a 34 km climb to 2084m early, then another cat 1 summit, Cerro El Amago, at 1720m, with pitches up to 11.5%.  The final 18 km to the finish are mostly flat on the mile-high plateau.  Stage 4 time trial winner Xavier Tondo of Movistar maintaned the overall lead with a 7th place finish on Friday's stage 5 moutaintop finish.  Ivan Basso has been tranquilo throughout, training through and sitting at 32nd on GC.  Liquigas teammate Eros Capecchi sits 4th @ 1:28.

cyclingfans.com has links to live video.  Streaming has been reliable every day for the last hour of the stage.  Schedule below (GMT -3).

Stage 5 Results and Classifications

via www.tour-sanluis.com.ar

via www.tour-sanluis.com.ar