Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park

Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park
Coordinates: 30 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  S , 71 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  W.
Location:	Coquimbo , Chile
Next city:	La Serena
Surface:	100 km²
Founding:	1943 Chile, 1977 UNESCO

The National Park Bosque de Fray Jorge (span. Parque Nacional Bosque de Fray Jorge ) is located in Chile in the Región de Coquimbo . He is part of a biosphere reserve of UNESCO .

geography

The national park is 100 km south of La Serena, almost directly on the Pacific , and around 30 km west of Ovalle . The Río Limarí flows into the Pacific about ten kilometers south. The park covers an area of ​​100 km².

visible in the picture is the border to the coastal desert

The national park is known for its subtropical cloud forests (hydrophilic forests).

The coastal fog (Spanish: Camanchaca ) remains hanging on the mountain slopes and forms an enclave of the Valdivian rainforest with subtropical vegetation in what is actually a desert-like area .

Long-tailed blackbird ( Sturnella loyca )

Typical plant species in the national park:

• Peruvian pepper tree ( Schinus latifolius )
• Azara celastrina
• Lithraea caustica , called Liter in Chile.
• Porlieria chilensis
• Aextoxicon punctatum , which is also called Olivillo in Chile.
• Sarmienta scandens
• Griselinia scandens

A large number of smaller animals live in the park, such as the degu , chinchilla and foxes. Many species of birds live in the woods, as the Chilean Tinamou ( Nothoprocta perdicaria ) and the long-tailed Soldatenstärling ( Sturnella loyca ).

history

The Jorge Fray National Park was established in 1943 and is under the Chilean forest authority CONAF . UNESCO declared the national park a biosphere reserve in 1977. In addition to the national park, two other parks belong to the biosphere reserve, the Talinay and Punta del Viento parks.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://www.unesco.org/mabdb/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?code=CHI+01&mode=all

Web links

Commons : Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• official website at CONAF (Spanish)
• Description of the Biosphere Reserve Fray Jorge at UNESCO (Engl.)