The Los Alerces National Park is a national park in Chubut Province, Argentina, some 30 miles from Esquel. It is a park of 263,000 hectares along the border with Chile, best known for the alerce trees (Fitzroya cupressoides) from which the park takes its name. The National Parks of Argentina make up a network of 29 national parks in Argentina. ... Map of Argentina highlighting Chubut province Chubut is a province in the southern part of Argentina. ... Esquel is a town in the north east of Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina. ... Binomial name Fitzroya cupressoides Alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides), also known as Patagonian Cypress, is a large tree in the cypress family (Cupressaceae) of conifers. ...

The park was created in 1937 in order to protect the lahuan and alerce forest, typical examples of the flora of the Patagonian Andes. The National Park has the largest alerce forest of Argentina. There are alerces of around 3,000 years old, many of them over 1,000, and it is one of the longest-living trees in the world. It grows just 1 mm a year and belong to the Pinaceae family. The principal forest in the park, visited by tourists, is at Puerto Sagrario at the northern end of Lago Menéndez. Arrayán trees can be seen along the Arrayanes river. 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). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Genera Subfamily Pinoideae     Pinus - pines (about 115 species) Subfamily Piceoideae     Picea - spruces (about 35 species) Subfamily Laricoideae     Cathaya (one species)     Larix - larches (about 14 species)     Pseudotsuga - douglas-firs (five species) Subfamily Abietoideae     Abies - firs (about 50 species)     Cedrus - cedars (two to four species)     Pseudolarix - golden larch (one species)     Keteleeria (three... Binomial name Luma apiculata (DC.) Burrett The Arrayán (Luma apiculata) is a species of tree in the genus Luma in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) native to the central Andes mountains between Chile and Argentina. ...

In the west of the park, there is high rainfall and Valdivian temperate rain forests below the high Andes mountains. Much of the rest of the park is Patagonian forest similar to the Lanín and Nahuel Huapi National Parks, with coihues and lenga in addition to the alerce. There is a complex lake system with many rivers. The most important are the Menendez, Rivadavia, Futalaufquen and Krüger lakes, and the Frey river. A hydroelectric dam, providing energy to industry in Puerto Madryn, has created the large artificial Lake Amutui Quimei, which empties into the Futaleufú River which flows on to Chile. The Torrecillas glacier can be seen from tour boats. The Valdivian temperate rain forests are a terrestrial ecoregion located on the west coast of southern South America, in Chile and extending into a small part of Argentina. ... Categories: Stub ... Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ... Puerto Madryn is a town in Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina. ... The Futaleufú River is a river fed by the lakes in the Los Alerces National Park in Chubut Province, Argentina, crossing the Andes Mountains into Chile and opening into the Yelco Lake. ... This article is about the geographical formation. ...

There is good walking and fishing in the park, plus boat trips on the lakes.