Los Flamencos National Reserve

The Los Flamencos National Reserve ( Spanish Reserva nacional Los Flamencos ) is a group of nature reserves in the municipality of San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile. These are important landscapes and biotopes in the Atacama Desert , which are developed for sustainable tourism and at the same time are subject to nature conservation.

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The Los Flamencos National Reserve is one of numerous nature reserves that belong to the national system of state-protected game areas (Spanish: Sistema Nacional de Áreas Silvestres Protegidas por el Estado ) in Chile and are managed by the forestry authority CONAF . The areas designated as national reserves are defined as areas in which it is necessary to conserve natural resources and use them with particular caution.

The reserve consists of seven independent and spatially separated zones with a total area of ​​709 km ² , which make up 3% of the municipal area of ​​San Pedro de Atacama. The local government is developing these areas into preferred tourist destinations in the municipality by investing in improvements to the tourist infrastructure. The protection zones include typical regional desert landscapes and wetlands with interesting flora and fauna. 112 different species of birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals have been counted in the reserve . Notable among them are the flamingos ( Andean flamingo , James flamingo , Chileflamingo ), after which it is named. Well visible, they are the main attraction of the national reserve, which is visited by tens of thousands of tourists every year.

Sectors of the reserve

Reserva nacional Los Flamencos
 

image	Name sector (position coordinates)	Area km 2	Remarks
	Valle de la Luna ( 22 ° 55 ′  S , 68 ° 19 ′  W ) 2500 m	54.72	dry salar with beautiful salt formations Landscape Monument (Monumento Nacional)
	Soncor ( 23 ° 18 ′  S , 68 ° 10 ′  W ) 2300 m	50.46	Part of a larger Ramsar wetland within the Salar de Atacama Hypersaline ponds: Laguna Chaxa, Laguna Puilar, Laguna Barros Negros, Río Burro Muerto most important breeding area for Andean flamingos 60,000 visitors annually
	Bosque de Tambillo ( 23 ° 6 ′  S , 68 ° 6 ′  W ) 2350 m	60.13	Tamarugo - Grove near the settlement of Tambillo on the edge of the Salar de Atacama
Image wanted	Aguas de Quellana ( 23 ° 28 ′  S , 68 ° 6 ′  W ) 2300 m	41.38	Wetland within the Salar de Atacama with seasonally strongly varying water levels Laguna Burro Muerto
	Salar de Tara - Aguas Calientes I ( 23 ° 0 ′  S , 67 ° 18 ′  W ) ( 23 ° 7 ′  S , 67 ° 25 ′  W ) 4300 m	340.39	Ramsar wetland in an Andean plateau Salar de Tara Salar de Aguas Calientes I.
	Salar de Pujsa ( 23 ° 11 ′  S , 67 ° 32 ′  W ) 4530 m	57.03	Salar de Pujsa is part of a larger Ramsar reserve
	Miscanti - Miñiques ( 23 ° 44 ′  S , 67 ° 46 ′  W ) 4100 m	109.14	two salt lakes: Laguna Miscanti Laguna Miñiques

Animals in the reserve

• Migratory birds:
  • Andean flamingo ( Phoenicoparrus andinus )
  • James Flamingo ( Phoenicoparrus jamesi )
  • Chilean flamingo ( Phoenicopterus chilensis )
  • Peregrine falcon ( Falco peregrinus )
  • Large yellow thigh ( Tringa melanoleuca )
  • Lesser yellow thigh ( Tringa flavipes )
  • Baird sandpiper ( Calidris bairdii )
  • Gray-breasted sandpiper ( Calidris melanotos )
  • Wilson's treadmill ( Phalaropus tricolor )
  • Barn swallow ( Hirundo rustica )

Plants in the reserve

• Plants:
  • Fabiana bryoides - Parastrephia quadrangularis
  • Deyeuxia crispa - Mulinum crassifolium
  • Stipa frigida
  • Fabiana bryoides and Adesmia speciosa
  • Atriplex atacamensis - Pluchea absinthioides
  • Oxychloe andina
  • Prosopis tamarugo

Web links

Commons : Los Flamencos Nature Reserve  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CADE-IDEPE Consultores en Ingenería: Cuenca de Salar de Atacama . In: Gobierno de Chile Ministerio de Obras Públicas Direccón General de Aguas (ed.): Diagnostico y clasificación de los cursos y cuerpos de agua según objetivos de calidad . December 2005 (Spanish, online (PDF; 887 kB) [accessed on February 23, 2013]). online ( Memento of the original from April 17, 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.  
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4. ^ Raúl E. Catalán Castro: Plan de Desarrollo Comunal - Informe Final . San Pedro de Atacama 2011 - 2015. Ed .: Ilustre Municipalidad de San Pedro de Atacama. San Pedro de Atacama October 2011 (Spanish, online (PDF; 7.4 MB) [accessed April 19, 2013]).
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Claudia González Muzzio: Actualización Plan Regulador Comunal de San Pedro de Atacama . Memoria explicativa. Ed .: Ilustre Municipalidad de San Pedro de Atacama. March 2010 (Spanish, online (PDF; 2.4 MB) [accessed on March 13, 2013]).
6. ↑ ^{a b} Ficha Informativa CONAF (PDF; 249 kB)
7. ^ Corporación Nacional Forestal. "Actualización Plan de Manejo Participativo Reserva Nacional Los Flamencos." Antofagasta 2008. ( online in Biblioteca Digital Centro de Información de Recursos Naturales)
8. ↑ Ficha Informativa CONAF (PDF; 288 kB)
9. ↑ Ficha Informativa CONAF (PDF; 407 kB)