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LOS ARRAYANES NATIONAL
PARK
Province of Neuquén
Though till
1971 this was part of the Nahuel Huapi National Park, it was split off
and given its own national park status at that time. It preserves a stand
of Myrceugenella trees of singular beauty, with their smoothe cinnamon-coloured
bark and twisted trunks.
Covering an área of 1753 ha it includes the whole of the Quetrihue
peninsula in the northern reaches of Nahuel Huapi lake.
NATURAL ASPECTS
The whole of the park is wooded
with species of Nothofagus, Lomatia, andean cypresses and bushes such
as the Chilean firebush, Berberis, and others. There are also dense stands
of the colihue cane. Among the birds to be seen in this park are the austral
blackbird, thorn-tailed rayaditos and the chucao tapaculo; on the lake
shore black-crowned night-herons and on the water the great grebe. The
southern tip of the peninsula is cloaked with a 20 ha pure stand of the
arrayan (Myrceugenella apiculata) as described above.
HOW TO GET
THERE
Easiest access
is by water where tour boats take one to a jetty to visit the trees. Overland
there is a 10 km hiking trail to the same area south from Villa Angostura.
reached from Bariloche along routes 237 and 231. Angostura is also the
embarcation place for a shorter boat trip than from Bariloche (Puerto
Pañuelo).
OF INTEREST
TO THE VISITOR
There is no camping
in this national park, though there is in Angostura. The trail through
the Arrayan woods is a board-walk to avoid erosion.
Thanks to APN - Administración
de Parques Nacionales
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