Los Glaciares National Park
Location: Province of Santa Cruz
Los Glaciares National Park is a place of outstanding natural beauty with stunning cropped tops and numerous glacial lakes, including Lake Argentino, which is 160 kilometers long. At the end of this three glaciers converge precipitating huge icebergs in its icy milky gray waters, amid thunderous crash.
The Los Glaciares National Park was created in 1937 to preserve a large area of continental ice, montañasandinas, cool forests, glaciers and large glacial lakes. It extends over 726 927, has located in southwestern laProvincia of Santa Cruz de la Argentina.
Due to its spectacular beauty, glaciological and geomorphological interest, and part of its endangered wildlife, UNESCO declared “World Heritage Site” in 1981.
Aspects of nature
Undoubtedly, the highlight of this park is its ice fields, which together cover an area of approximately 2600 km (this implies that more than 30% of the area of the park is covered by ice). From these 47 major glaciers descend. The best known is the Perito Moreno glacier, which expands upon the waters of the South Arm of Lake Argentino, with a front of 5 km. and a height, above the lake level of 60 meters.
The Upsala glacier, located on the north branch of the same lake, is the largest; exhibits a length of 50 km and a width of about 10 km.
In the northern sector of the park is the imposing Fitz Roy massif noted for its height (3405 meters) and its monumental aspect of steep hillsides where glaciers descend to the environment of the surrounding mountain range cords.
The most popular tours in Argentina
Jesuit Guaraní Missions: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missões (Brazil)
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Location: Province of Misiones (Argentina) / Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Mission San Miguel (Brazil), San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina): In the heart of the rainforest ruins same five Jesuit missions are located. Built in Guarani territory during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these missions are characterized by specific path and unequal condition. (UNESCO / BPI)
The Jesuit Missions or Jesuit Guarani Guarani were a set of thirty missionaries towns founded in the seventeenth century by the Catholic religious order of the Jesuits among the Guarani Indians and kindred peoples, which were aimed at evangelization and geographically placed -quince- in actualesprovincias of Misiones and Corrientes in Argentina, Paraguay and -ocho- in-the seven restantes- in so-called Eastern Missions, located southwest of Brazil.
Iguazu National Park
Location: Province of Misiones
At the heart of this park is the Iguazu waterfall. Formed by a semicircular basaltic cliff 80 meters high and 2,700 feet wide, cataract forms the border between Argentina and Brazil and is one of the most spectacular in the world. Split into multiple cascades of huge emanating mists. The surrounding subtropical rainforest is home to more than 2,000 species of vascular plants and fauna characteristic of the region: tapirs, giant anteaters, howler monkeys, ocelots, jaguars and caymans. (UNESCO / BPI)
The Iguazú National Park is a protected area of Argentina created in 1934 with the aim of conserving the environment and biodiversity of the Iguazu Falls, which were elected as one of the “Seven Natural Wonders of the World.” It is located entirely within the department Iguazu Falls bordering the river at the northern end of the province of Misiones; has an area of 67 620 ha, bordering the city of Puerto Iguazú; its eastern boundary is 17 km from the city deAndresito. It is crossed by 2 national routes: the 12 and the 101 in the Brazilian side the Iguaçu National Park is forming by the Argentine National Park a protected area of over 2,500 sq km area adjacent to other reserves as Puerto add Peninsula.
The surface of this national park is divided into two management areas: national park with 59,945 ha, and managed resource protected area with 7675 ha. Decree No. 2149/90 of 10 October 1990 designated the entire first strict nature comoreserva area. The March 24, 1994 Decree No. 453/1994 created the “wild nature reserve Iguazu” by dividing the area of strict nature reserve.
Cueva de las Manos, River Pinturas
Location: Province of Santa Cruz
The Cave of the Hands of the River Paintings houses an exceptional collection of rock art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 BC The cave is named after the handprints stamped on your walls with a similar template printing technique. In addition to these figures, the cave has numerous representations of living species of the local fauna, and more specifically of guanacos (Lama guanicoe). The authors of the paintings may well have been the ancestors of the hunter-gatherer communities of Patagonia discovered by European settlers in the nineteenth century. (UNESCO / BPI)
Peninsula Valdes
Location: Province of Chubut
Located in Patagonia, Peninsula Valdes is a place for the preservation of marine mammals of global importance. The site supports important breeding populations of right whales in danger of extinction, as well as elephants and lions. Killer whales in the region practice a unique strategy game in its genre, which is the result of adaptation to the specific conditions of the coast. (UNESCO / BPI)
The Valdés Peninsula is a coastal incident on the Argentine Sea, in the province of Chubut, Argentina and is part of nuevePatrimonios declared by Unesco in Argentina Humanity. It has a piece of land almost triangular outline connected to the mainland by the Isthmus Carlos Ameghino.
Peninsula Valdes receives the largest breeding population of southern right whales, more than 2000 cataloged by the Whale Conservation Institute and Ocean Alliance. The region contains six nature reserves, and is considered one of the main and most important whale watching destinations on the planet, particularly around the city Pyramids and Puerto Madryn dePuerto. Besides dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, penguins, sea lions and a variety of birds are sighted, among others.
Parks Ischigualasto and Talampaya
Location: Province of San Juan and La Rioja Province
These two contiguous parks, extending over an area of 275,300 hectares over the desert region bordered on the west by the Sierras Pampeanas of central Argentina. The six geological formations in the parks house the most comprehensive set of continental fossils in the world for the Triassic geological period that began about 245 million years BC and ended about 37 million years later. The fossils include a wide range of ancestors of mammals and traces of dinosaurs and plants that illustrate the evolution of vertebrates and paleoenvironments characteristics of the Triassic period. (UNESCO / BPI)
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
Location: Province of Cordoba
The Jesuit Block in Córdoba, which was one of the cores of the former Jesuit Province of Paraguay of companyaboutyourcomplaint Jesus universidad7 includes the church, the residence of the Jesuits and the school Montserrat. This set and the five estancias saws cordobesas8 harbor religious and secular buildings illustrate a religious, social and economic unprecedented experience, which took place between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and lasted over 150 years. (UNESCO / BPI)
Quebrada de Humahuaca
Location: Province of Jujuy
This site extends along a major cultural route, the Camino del Inca, which follows the course of the Rio Grande and its spectacular valley from its source in the cold high desert plateau of the High Andean lands to its confluence with the Rio Leone , about 150 kilometers further south. The valley shows substantial evidence of its use as a major trade route from 10,000 years ago, as well as the activities of groups of prehistoric hunter-gatherers. There are also vestiges of the Inca Empire (XV and XVI) and Republicans fighting for the independence of Argentina (XIX and XX). (UNESCO / BPI)
Qhapac Nan, Andean road system
Location: Province of Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca, La Rioja Province, Province of San Juan, Province of Mendoza
It is a vast road network of 30,000 kilometers built over several centuries by the Incas in infrastructure taking advantage of existing permits preincaicas order to facilitate communication, transport and trade, and also for defensive purposes. This unique trail system extends one of the geographical areas of the world of higher contrasts, from the snowy peaks of the Andes that rise more than 6,000 meters to the Pacific coast, passing through tropical rain forests, fertile valleys absolute aridity and deserts. The road network reached its greatest expansion in the fifteenth century, reaching spread throughout the length and breadth of the Andes. The new World Heritage Site, consisting of 273 components and extends along more than 5,000 kilometers. The components have been selected to highlight the important social and political function of the road network; the masterpieces of architecture and engineering and related infrastructures dedicated to commercial activities, accommodation and storage of goods; and sites of religious significance. (UNESCO / BPI)
