Los Arrayanes National Park

The Los Arrayanes National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Los Arrayanes ) is a national park in Argentina with an area of 18.4 km ². It covers almost completely the Quetrihué peninsula in the Nahuel Huapi Lake in the province of Neuquén. Its entrance is located 3 km south of Villa la Angostura. The southern tip is reachable by boat from Bariloche and Villa la Angostura.

Although the peninsula was already protected since 1934 within the Nahuel Huapi National Park, in 1971, this national park specifically designed to protect the arrayán myrtle trees ( Luma apiculata ) was created.

Individual arrayán trees you can already see a 12 km long walking and cycling route, at the southern tip there is then an almost pure arrayán area. The extremely slow-growing, narrow trees are there up to 600 years old and have a height of almost 20 meters. To protect the young trees, visitors are now guided by leaders on a boardwalk through the grounds. Meanwhile, one should allow the vegetation undisturbed, ie other tree species "may" settle back into the forest.

A similar forest, not open to visitors, exists on the opposite Isla Victoria.

In the completely forested national park with two lakes Pudús, Huemul, guanacos, Chiloe opossums and small foxes. Among the birds we see woodpeckers, hawks, eagles and Andean condors.

In 1900 the area of the park was transferred to a Admiral O'Connor, who sold it in 1931 to a family Lynch. 1934, the largest part was expropriated 50 hectares are still privately owned by the family.

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