Perito Moreno National Park

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The Perito Moreno National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Perito Moreno ) was founded in 1937. It is located in the northeast of the Santa Cruz Province in the Argentine part of Patagonia . It covers an area of ​​1150 km² and is on average 900 meters above sea level. Only a third of the national park is accessible to tourists, the remaining part is reserved for research. The special charm of the national park is caused by the turquoise and emerald colored lakes, which lie in the yellowish-brownish Patagonian steppe and are bordered by gray and black mountains without vegetation. The tourist development takes place from El Calafate . The national park was named after the discoverer Perito Moreno , who was also the namesake of the Perito Moreno glacier in the Los Glaciares National Park and the small town of Perito Moreno in Patagonia.

flora

Due to its location on the eastern slope of the Andes , the western part, which is inaccessible to tourists, is covered by the Andes and foothills. The valleys are overgrown with southern beech forests (Lenga, Nothofagus pumilio). The arid eastern part of the national park is covered by the Patagonian steppe .

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Lago Belgrano in the Perito Moreno National Park

fauna

The largest inhabitants of the national park are guanacos and pumas , which, however, can only be spotted extremely rarely. There is also a rich bird life. The truly extraordinary animals of the national park are various native fish species that have been displaced by the massive stocking of trout in all other waters of the Andes.

The national park is not very well developed for tourism and can only be reached via several hundred kilometers of slopes.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 41 ″  S , 72 ° 15 ′ 2 ″  W.