PNL

Lanin National Park, Neuquen, Argentina.

Created to protect andino-patagonics forest whith exclusive especies of our country. Located in the southeast of Neuquen covering 379.000 hectares, from which 184.000 correspond to a National Resource. You can get there for a pave sufrace in San Martin de los Andes, to 1,650 km. from Buenos Aires, or by plane to Chapelco, to 24 km. Cold-humid weather from the Patagonic Mountain Rage, with 4 Centigrade degree average in winter and 20 Centigrade degree on summer, Rains to 1.800 mm. a year, with areas up to 4,000 mm. Snowfalls from May to October. The center is Lanin Volcano, surrounded for 24 lakes from glaciar origin. Pehuen forest, lenga and colihue cane. In the Valdiviana jungle is where colihue, bracken, lichen, moss, bushes, . Forest of old leaves, ñire, lenga, mountain rage cypress, black hawthorn, notro, musticia. Fauna: Pudu, huillin, puma, foxes, rodents, ducks from the torrents, chuacao, salmonids, criole trout, patagonic pejerrey, puyen. Interesting Data: three interpretation paths: one from 400 meters long, border the Quila Quina river, to a skip serie zone. Another, from 2 long km., takes to the chachin cascade, and the other, from puerto canoa, travel throuh the huechulafquen lake. In automovile can get to the escorial, the Lahuen-co termas, the Rucachoroi lake and its indigenious reserve.