South America has dozens of National Parks, Natural Preserves, and Historic Sites beckoning for you to visit. Visit the links below to begin your adventure!
From Iguazu Falls to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina maintains a number of national parks (PN), natural reserves (RN or AN), provincial or regional parks (PP) and national monuments (NM).
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Chaco National Park
Chaco National Park has a 15.000 hectares surface. It is located in the Chaco province and was created in 1954 in order to protect a sample of the oriental Chaco.
The protected area conserves the “quebracho colorado chaqueño” forests. These forests were located in the north of Santa Fe and Chaco occidental half, and had penetrated in the northeast of Corrientes province.
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Francisco P. Moreno National Park
PN Perito Moreno (Perito Moreno National Park) was created in 1937in order to protect the large richness of the region: “lengas” forests, two lake's systems, a patagonic steppe section, fossils and a varied fauna.
The Park covers a 115.000 hectares surface in the northwest side of Santa Cruz. It has a mountain chain cuts by valleys, which many of them are 900 metres over the sea level.
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Iguazu National Park
This National Park was created in 1934, with the objective of conserving one of the greatest natural beauties of Argentina: the Iguazú River's Rainfalls, among the spectacular subtropical jungle landscape that surrounds them.
PN Iguazú (Iguazú National Park) is located in the North region of Misiones province, in Iguazu department, and has a 67.000 hectare surface. In the north of the park -separated by the Iguazu River, which stands for international limit- there is its Brazilian pair. In the year 1984 both sides were declared as “Humanity Worldwide Heritage Place" by the UNESCO.
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Lago Puelo National Park
Lago Puelo National Park was created as a Los Alerces National Park annexe. In 1971 it was declared National Park and independent reserve. It has a 27.674 hectare surface, and is located in the northwest of Chubut province.
The protected area belongs to the patagonic forest and steppes, and High Andes eco-regions. The climate is cod and wet, and there are snowfalls in winter.
PN Lago Puelo (Lago Puelo National Park) protects a wonderful landscape, and the valdiviana flora. In the National Park, which is located in the lower valley of the North Patagonia, there is a mountainous relief that determines the national park´s biodiversity.
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Laguna Blanca National Park
The National Park was created in 1940 in order to protect one of the most important places where lives the black neck swan. It is located in the northwest of Neuquén province and houses –in a volcanic landscape- a lot of different forms of aquatic and terrestrial life. The protected area belongs to the patagonic steppe eco-region.
The particular characteristic of the region is the small lake, located between small slope hills. It is surrounded by abrupt walls. The Laguna Blanca is located 1.270 meters over the sea level, and has a 1.700 hectare surface.
This place has been included in the important Wetlands List (Ramsar Convention) due its importance as an aquatic bird´s habitat.
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Lanín National Park
It was created in 1937 in order to preserve a representative sector of
the northandinenan-patagonic forest that houses representative specimen
from this region like “pehuen”, “rauli” and “roble pellin” –which in Argentina there are only in a short area of the “neuquina” mountain chain.
The Park took its name from the Lanin volcano, whose cone covered by permanent snow overpasses 1.500 meters the other peeks of the zone, dominating the mountain's landscape from any angle. Its beautiful geography has also 24 lakes with glacier origin.
It occupies 412.000 hectares and it is located in the southeast of Neuquen province. Lanin National Park belongs to the forest, patagonic steppe and “Altos Andes” eco-regions.
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Los Alerces National Park
Los Alerces National Park is a 263.000 hectares protected area situated in the cordilleran region of Chubut, over the international limit with Chile. It was created in 1937 in order to protect “lahuan” and “alerce” forest, a typical exponent of andino-patagonica flora.
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Los Arrayanes National Park
Los Arrayanes National Park was created in 1971 as an independent
National Park, making up until that year the Nahuel Huapi National Park.
The objective of that creation is to preserve a particular forest area composed of arrayanes. The park, which has 1.753 hectares, covers all the Quetrihué Peninsula that is ubicated in the north side of Nahuel Huapi Lake.
In the south side of the Quetrihué Peninsula there is the most singular formation: the purest arrayanes forest, white flowers and cinnamon bark trees with irregular whitish spots.
PN Los Arrayanes (Los Arrayanes National Park) preserves a sample of the patagonic forest eco-region, which has wet and cold warm climate, with winter snowfalls and rains. During almost all the year there are frosts and strong winds from the West.
This eco-region has high mountains, with glaciery valleys. “Semideciduos” forest, which is high represented in the north but not too much in the southern part, dominates the area and alternates with “turberas” in the southern part.
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Los Cardones National Park
This National Park is located in the centre-west of the Salta province, in San Carlos and Cachi Departments. The protected area was created in 1996, when the Administración de Parques Nacionales acquired the territory (it was a private one).
PN Los Cardones (Los Cardones National Park) has a 65.000 hectares surface, with hills and ravine (between the 2.700 and 5.000 metres height ). It is important the bush formation with the “cardones” predominance.
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Los Glaciares National Park
The protected area started being protected since 1937. In 1971, by means of Law Nº 19.292, the current limits of the National Park and the Natural Reserve were established.
The National Park´s 724.000 hectares are ubicated in the southwest area of Santa Cruz. The park belongs to the forest, patagonic steppe and Altos Andes eco-regions.
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Mburucuyá National Park
With a surface of 17.660 hectares, the National Park is located in the northwest side of Corrientes, in Mburucuyá department.
The protected area was created because Doctor Troels M. Pedersen donated the lands to the Administración de Parques Nacionales. It is a representative area of the northwest of Corrientes because of its important surface and the exceptional state of its conservation. Moreover, the National Park constituted an important refuge for the native flora and fauna.
PN Mburucuyá (Mburucuyá National Park) belongs to Esteros del Iberá eco-region, which presents a lot of wetlands. They have many functions: provided water; regulate floods and droughts; remove toxics; stabilize microclimates; and retain carbon.
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Nahuel Huapi National Park
Francisco Pascasio Moreno donated lands to the Argentinean State in November 6 th , 1903. Those lands are the nucleus of the current Nahuel Huapi National Park, which was created in 1934.
Because of its ecological and its beautiful landscapes, the National Park protects a vast representative area in the north Andean region of the Patagonia.
It is situated in the southwest side on Neuquen and northwest side of Rio Negro. The area covers a 710.000 hectares surface.
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Palmar National Park
El Palmar National park is located in the Entre Ríos province, in the west of the Uruguay river, between Colón and Concordia Cities.
PN El Palmar (El Palmar National Park) has a 8.500 hectares surface and was created in 1965 in order to protect a representative sample of the biggest “yatay” palm tree concentration of Argentina.
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Pre Delta National Park
PN Pre-Delta (Pre-Delta National Park) was created in 1992, in order to preserve a sample of the ambient of the “Delta Superior” from the Parana River. It has a 2.458 hectares surface and it is located in the southwest side of Entre Rios, 6 km away from Diamante city.
The Park belongs to Delta and Parana Islands eco-region. This eco-region belongs to flood valleys from the low and media way of Parana and Paraguay rivers, and includes the “Delta del Parana”. Low and flood islands compose the Park's landscape.
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Quebrada del Condorito National Park
Quebrada del Condorito National Park is situated in the west side of Cordoba, in Punilla, Santa Maria and San Alberto departments, covering a part of Achala de la Pampa –between the 1.900 and 2.300 metres height- and nearby gullies over the central Sierras Grandes de Cordoba chain.
PN Quebrada del Condorito (Quebrada del Condorito National Park) was created in 1996, when authorities started the formal steps to acquire the lands and the Park instrumentation.
The protected area has 150.000 hectares and 37.000 of them are under National Park category. The rest maintains as Federal Reserve.
The National Park is situated inside the “Serrano” District of the Chaco Natural Unit. However, as other “extra-andinas” mountains formations of the west and centre of the country, Sierras de Cordoba has a kind of nature similar to the Cordillera de los Andes' vegetation.
PN Quebrada del Condorito (Quebrada del Condorito National Park) belongs to “chaco seco” eco-region, in its “chaco serrano” district. A large plain with soft slope to the east composed this eco-region.The weather is warm and subtropical, with absolute high temperatures. The rains are in summer y varies between 500 and 700 mm.
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Río Pilcomyo National Park
PN Río Pilcomayo (Rio Pilcomayo National Park) was created in 1951 to protect grass, marshes, gully, little lakes and rainforests in balcony, typical of the “Chaco Humedo” eco-region.
It covers a 47.754 hectares surface, it is situated in the northeast of Formosa, in the riverside of Pilcomayo River, and limits with Paraguay.
Rio Pilcomayo National Park had been included in the Most Important “Humedales” of the World List (Ramsar Convention).
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San Guillermo National Park
PN San Guillermo (San Guillermo National Park) is in the north side of San Juan, in Iglesia Department, and has 150.000 hectares surface.
It was created in 1998 in order to protect the biggest concentration of wild “camelidos” of Argentina. With the creation of San Guillermo Provincial Reserve, which one part belongs to the National Park, the “vicuña” population grows a lot.
It is situated inside representative's samples of the Puna and Andes Centrales, there are many demonstrations of the first inhabitants of the Cordillera Central.
This Park constituted, with San Guillermo Provincial Reserve, the San Guillermo Biosphere Reserve, a category of international management controlled by “El hombre y la Bioesfera” Project of the United Nations.
PN San Guillermo (San Guillermo National Park) belongs to Puna and Andes Centrales eco-region. The Puna eco-region is characterized by basin “endorreicas" that reaches 3.000 metres height.
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Sierra de las Quijadas National Park
The National Park was created in 1991 in order to protect representative ambient of the Chaco Arido and the Monte, and its archaeological and palentological sites.
It is situated in the northwest side of San Luis, in Belgrano and Ayacucho departments. It covers 150.000 hectares approximately.
PN Sierra de las Quijadas (Sierra de las Quijadas National Park) belongs to Monte de Llanuras y Mesetas and Chaco Seco eco-regions.
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Talampaya Natural Park
The protected area is situated in the middle west of La Rioja. It covers 215.000 hectares. In 1975 was created Talampaya Provincial Park in order to preserve paleontological and archaeological sites.
PN Talampaya (Talampaya National Park) was incorporated to Argentina National Park System because of its conservationist importance and tourist potential. Both National Park and Ischiqualasto Provincial Reserve constituted a very important place because of its paleontological and archaeological importance; so that UNESCO declares the area Humanity Heritage.
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Tierra del Fuego National Park
PN Tierra del Fuego (Tierra del Fuego national park) was created in 1960 through the Law Nº 15.554 and covers a 63.000 hectares surface. It is situated in Patagonic Forest and Altos Andes eco-regions.
The Patagonic Forest eco-region is characterized by a climate that goes from warm to cold, with snows and winter rains. It has a landscape dominated by high and irregular mountains, with glacier valleys and “semidesiduos” forests.
Altos Andes eco-region is characterized by a hills chain and slopes over “endorreicas” plains.
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