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PATAGONIA
NATIONAL RESERVES
A
NATIONAL RESERVE
is an area whose
natural resource
must be kept and
used with special
care because it
might suffer degradation
or for its importance
in protecting community
welfare.
FOREST RESERVE MAGALLANES
Forest
Reserve Magallanes,
also known as Parque
Japones (Japanese
Park) is located
at 9 km. from Punta
Arenas. This beautiful
natural park has
trails fit for
trekking and bike
ride among lenga
trees, nirres and
coigues until the
Rio de las Minas
valley, a river
of small volume
that cross the
heart of Punta
Arenas; in the
highest part of
the park there
is a viewpoint
called Garganta
del Diablo (Devil's
Ravine). Instead,
one may reach the
Andean Club, where
is a ski lift to
the summit of mount
Fenton, from where
it is possible
to watch the Magellan
Strait, Tierra
del Fuego and Punta
Arenas city in
its fullness.
FOREST
RESERVE LAGUNA
PARRILLAR
Forest
reserve Laguna
Parrillar is located
to some 58 km.
of Punta Arenas.
This is a special
park for those
who like to rest
in the open air
and the lovers
of sport fishing,
because here it
is possible to
fish the Fontinallo
or stream trout
(up to 1 kilo).
The lagoon has
an important water
resource (almost
18,000 hectares)
that supplies the
drinking water
for Punta Arenas.
There are installations
for camping in
the middle of the
woods, where visitors
may do eco-tourism.
NATIONAL
RESERVE ALACALUFES
Created
in 1969, is located
in 50 and 54 degrees
south and 71 and
75 degrees west,
including western
archipelagoes of
Ultima Esperanza
province.
National
reserve Alacalufes
has a landscape
of low mountains,
with numerous channels
and fiords. The
area has two kind
of climate, temperate
cold climate with
great humidity
and tundra isothermal
climate, with an
yearly average
temperature of
7.2 and 6.5 C degrees,
respectively. Rainfalls
are high, reaching
2,450 millimeters;
each month of the
year receive 170
mm. but never more
than 240 mm.
Vegetation includes
coast grassland,
coast bushes, coigue
formations and
peat bogs. As for
the fauna, there
are a great variety
of birds and mammals.
Source
: SERNATUR Magallanes
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