Cerros Catedral, López and Capilla, and lakes Moreno and Nahuel Huapi, as seen from Cerro Campanario.

Nahuel Huapi National Park is the oldest Argentine national park, in Patagonia in the foothills of the Andes mountains. It was established in 1934, but the nucleus of the park is the land donated to the federal government by Perito Moreno in 1903. The World Conservation Union or International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ... Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, UK A national park is a reserve of land, usually declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. ... Río Negro is a province of Argentina, located at the northern edge of Patagonia. ... Neuquén is a province of Argentina, located in the west of the country, at the northern end of Patagonia. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Download high resolution version (1745x315, 100 KB)Cerro Ljungner (2000 m) and lakes Moreno and Nahuel Huapi This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (1745x315, 100 KB)Cerro Ljungner (2000 m) and lakes Moreno and Nahuel Huapi This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Lake Nahuel Huapi from space (the elongate, dark feature in the center of the image is the lake and in the bottom is seen the Limay River), North is to the right of the image, January 1997 Nahuel Huapi Lake (Spanish: Lago Nahuel Huapi) is a lake of the lake... The National Parks of Argentina make up a network of 29 national parks in Argentina. ... In orange the area most commonly defined as Patagonia. ... The Andes between Chile and Argentina Planes view of the Andes, Peru. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Dr. Francisco Pascacio Moreno (May 31, 1852–November 22, 1919) was an Argentine explorer, born in Buenos Aires. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...

The park covers approximately 7050 km² and is located in the southwest corner of the Río Negro and Neuquén provinces on the border with Chile. The largest city within the park and a base for tourism is the city of San Carlos de Bariloche. Villa La Angostura is another lakeside resort also within the boundaries of the park. Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Río Negro is a province of Argentina, located at the northern edge of Patagonia. ... Neuquén is a province of Argentina, located in the west of the country, at the northern end of Patagonia. ... Tourism in Argentina is favored by its ample and varied natural assets (made possible by its geographical extension), by its cultural offer, and (since the devaluation of the Argentine peso after the 2001 crash) by its high exchange rate to foreign currencies. ... San Carlos de Bariloche is a city in the province of Río Negro, Argentina, situated on the foothills of the Andes, surrounded by lakes (Nahuel Huapi, Gutiérrez Lake, Moreno Lake and Mascardi Lake) and mountains (Tronador, Cerro Catedral, Cerro López). ... Villa La Angostura (Spanish for Narrowness-ville) is a town on the south of the Argentine province of Neuquén, on the northwest shore of the Nahuel Huapi Lake. ...

The park is famous for its rich wildlife and it covers many biotopes, due to altitudes ranging from 700 to 3,000 m and precipitation ranging from rain forests with 4,000 mm/yr on the western slopes to steppes with less than 300 mm/yr on the eastern side. The alerce or Patagonian cypress is a slow-growing conifer seen in the park. Other flora seen in the park include arrayanes, coihues, ferns, the caña colihue reed, lengas, ñires, amancayes and arvejillas. The llao llao fungus is seen as beautiful irregular growths on the trees and is a symbol of the area and the name of the Hotel Llao Llao, a famous resort. Animals include river otters, huemul, pudus, guanacos, maras, parakeets and condors. Biotope is a coined word proposed firstly in Germany (Biotop) based on Greek bios=life or organism and topos=place. So biotope is literally an area where life is living. ... The metre, or meter (U.S.), is a measure of length. ... A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. ... A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ... A steppe in Western Kazakhstan in early spring In physical geography, a steppe (Russian: - , Ukrainian: - , Kazakh: - ), pronounced in English as , is a plain without trees (apart from those near rivers and lakes); it is similar to a prairie, although a prairie is generally considered as being dominated by tall grasses... Binomial name Fitzroya cupressoides (Molina) I.M.Johnst. ... Orders & Families Cordaitales † Pinales   Pinaceae - Pine family   Araucariaceae - Araucaria family   Podocarpaceae - Yellow-wood family   Sciadopityaceae - Umbrella-pine family   Cupressaceae - Cypress family   Cephalotaxaceae - Plum-yew family   Taxaceae - Yew family Vojnovskyales † Voltziales † The conifers, division Pinophyta, also known as division Coniferae, are one of 13 or 14 division level taxa within the... Binomial name Luma apiculata (DC.) Burret Luma apiculata is a species of tree in the genus Luma in the family Myrtaceae, native to the central Andes mountains between Chile and Argentina. ... Binomial name Nothofagus dombeyi Mirb The coihue is a tree species (Nothofagus dombeyi) that inhabits the Andean heights of the Argentine Patagonia and central Chile, between 700 and 1,200 m above mean sea level. ... Classes Psilotopsida Equisetopsida Marattiopsida Polypodiopsida A fern is any one of a group of about 20,000 species of plants classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta. ... Reed can refer to: // Reed (plant), grass-like plant growing in shallow water or on marshy ground (see also Thatching) Reed (instrument), a thin strip of cane or similar material which vibrates in wind instruments Reed, Gloppen in the county Sogn og Fjordane in Norway. ... Binomial name Nothofagus lenga (Forster) Oersted The Lenga Beech or lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) is a deciduous tree or shrub native to the centre area of the Andes range, in the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina down to Tierra del Fuego. ... Binomial name Nothofagus antarctica (Forster) Oerst. ... Alstroemeria aurantiaca, Amancay from the Patagonian Andes. ... The Llao Llao is a famous hotel in the northwest patagonia region of Argentina. ... Binomial name Lontra canadensis (Schreber, 1777) The Northern River Otter, Lontra canadensis, is a North American member of the Mustelidae or weasel family. ... Species Hippocamelus bisulcus Molina, 1782 Hippocamelus antisensis |} The Huemul is an endangered mammal of the Cervidae family. ... The pudu (Pudu pudu), considered to be the worlds smallest deer, is a native of South America. ... Binomial name Lama guanicoe (Müller, 1776) The guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is an elegant, fine-boned camelid animal that stands approximately 1. ... Species , Patagonian Mara , Chacoan Mara The maras (Dolichotis) are a genus of the cavy family. ... Parakeets (Budgerigars) A parakeet is one of several parrot species. ... Genera Vultur Gymnogyps Condor is the name for the largest species of New World vultures. ...

There are many lakes in the park, including Lago Nahuel Huapi, Lago Mascardi, Lago Gutiérrez, Lago Traful, Lago Moreno, and Lago Guillelmo. The area is known as the Argentine Lake District. Lake Nahuel Huapi contains several islands, including Isla Huemul, which hosted the Huemul Project, the Argentinian secret research project on nuclear fusion in 1949-1952. The Quetrihué peninsula in the north of the lake has been set aside as a separate national park, Los Arrayanes National Park. Cerro Catedral is a 2,388m high peak within the Park and an important ski resort. Cerro Tronador, on the Chilean border, is the highest mountain in the park at 3,491m. Bordering the National Park to the north is the Lanín National Park. Lake Nahuel Huapi from space (the elongate, dark feature in the center of the image is the lake and in the bottom is seen the Limay River), North is to the right of the image, January 1997 Nahuel Huapi Lake (Spanish: Lago Nahuel Huapi) is a lake of the lake... The Huemul Project was a secret project proposed by the German scientist of Austrian origin Ronald Richter to the government of Argentina during the first presidency of Juan Domingo Perón. ... The deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion reaction is considered the most promising for producing fusion power. ... Los Arrayanes National Park is a national park of Argentina with an area of 17. ... Los Arrayanes National Park is a national park of Argentina with an area of 17. ... Cerro Catedral is a mountain located 19 kilometres (12 miles) from San Carlos de Bariloche, and inside the Nahuel Huapí National Park. ... Tronador is a volcano in the border between Argentina and Chile near Bariloche, in the Nahuel Huapí National Park. ... The Lanín National Park is a national park of Argentina, located in the province of Neuquén, with forests of diverse tree varieties, mainly fagaceaes and pinophytas as the lenga and the Araucaria, many of which species cant be found elswere in Argentina. ...