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The El Leoncito National Park is a national park of Argentina, located at the Calingasta Department, in the southwest of the province of San Juan. It has an area of 760 km². It was created in 1994 as a reserve and became a national park in 2002, in order to protect representative samples of the Puna and High Andean scrublands, as well as historical and paleontological sites (including a portion of the Inca's Way). Yosemite National Park in the United States. ...
Argentina consists of 23 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia), and 1 federal district (Capital Federal *). Capital Federal * Buenos Aires Catamarca Chaco Chubut Córdoba Corrientes Entre Ríos Formosa Jujuy La Pampa La Rioja Mendoza Misiones Neuquén Río Negro Salta San Juan San Luis Santa Cruz Santa Fe Santiago...
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Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Scrubland is an uncultivated region covered with scrub vegetation. ...
Given the lack of atmospheric pollution in this area, it is particularly suitable for astronomical observations. Within the park there are two observatories. Observatory of Strasbourg An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial and/or celestial events. ...
The climate is cold, with permanent ice, in the High Andean region. In the Puna, the climate is cold and dry, with large thermical amplitudes. The average annual rainfall is 200 mm. The flora is mostly made up of shrubs, typical of dry mountainous areas. The fauna include important species like the guanaco and birds of prey such as the peregrine falcon (the fastest bird on Earth). A willow shrub A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ...
Binomial name Lama guanicoe (Müller, 1776) The Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) (sometimes spelled Guanco) is an elegant, fine-boned lamoid animal that stands approximately 3 ft 6 (1. ...
Binomial name Falco peregrinus Tunstall, 1771 The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) is a medium-sized falcon about the size of a large crow: 38-53 cm (15 to 21 inches) long. ...
Reference
- Administración de Parques Nacionales - Argentina's National Park Administration (in Spanish)
| National parks of Argentina (by region) | | Northwest: Baritú | Calilegua | El Rey | Los Cardones | Campo de los Alisos | Chaqueña: Copo | Río Pilcomayo | Chaco | Mesopotamia: Iguazú* | Mburucuyá | El Palmar | Cuyo: San Guillermo | Talampaya* | El Leoncito | Sierra de las Quijadas | Pampas: Quebrada del Condorito | Lihué Calel | Predelta | Patagonia: Laquna Blanca | Lanín | Los Arrayanes | Nahuel Huapi | Lago Puelo | Los Alerces | Francisco P. Moreno | Los Glaciares* | Monte León | Tierra del Fuego The National Parks of Argentina make up a network of 29 national parks in Argentina. ...
The Baritú National Park is a national park of Argentina, located in the Santa Victoria Department, in the north of the province of Salta, in the Argentine Northwest. ...
The Calilegua National Park is a national park of Argentina, located at the southeast of the province of Jujuy (Argentine Northwest), at the Ledesma Department, on the eastern slopes of the Calilegua hills. ...
The Campo de los Alisos National Park is a national park of Argentina, located in the Chicligasta Department, province of Tucumán. ...
Landscape in the Gran Chaco, Paraguay The Gran Chaco, dubbed by some as the last South American frontier, is an arid, sparsely-populated, very hot, semi-desert, lowland region of the La Plata basin and is a region divided between Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and a small portion in Brazil called...
The Copo National Park is a national park of Argentina, located in the Copo Department, province of Santiago del Estero. ...
The Chaco National Park is a national park of Argentina, located in the province of Chaco. ...
La Mesopotamia, Región Mesopotámica or Litoral (Littoral) is the humid and verdant area of north-east Argentina, comprising the provinces of Misiones, Entre RÃos and Corrientes. ...
Aereal view of a section of the waterfalls The Iguazú National Park is a national park of Argentina, located in the Iguazú Deparment, in the north of the province of Misiones, Argentine Mesopotamia. ...
Cuyo is the name given to the wine-producing, mountainous area of north-west Argentina, comprising the provinces of San Juan, San Luis and Mendoza. ...
The Pampas (from Quechua, meaning plain) are the fertile South American lowlands that include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, and Córdoba, most of Uruguay, and the southernmost end of Brazil, covering more than 750,000 km² (290,000 square miles). ...
Patagonia is that portion of South America which, to the east of the Andes, lies mainly south of the Rio Negro (41°S), and, to the west of the Andes, south of (42°S). ...
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The Los Alerces National Park is a national park in Chubut Province, Argentina, some 30 miles from Esquel. ...
Los Glaciares (Spanish for the glaciers) is a national park in the Santa Cruz, in the Argentine Patagonia. ...
Tierra del Fuego National Park is a national park on the Argentine part of the island of Tierra del Fuego, within Tierra del Fuego Province. ...
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