Chaco National Park

Chaco National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
The Humid Chaco in the park
Location	Chaco Province, Argentina
Coordinates	26°50′S 59°40′W
Area	150 km2 (58 sq mi)
Established	1954
Governing body	Administración de Parques Nacionales

The Chaco National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Chaco) is a national park in Argentina. It is in the province of Chaco. It is 150 km² in size. It was created in 1954 to protect the Eastern Chaco. Each summer, 750 and 1,300 mm of rain falls.

This park protects the quebracho trees. Forests of quebracho colorado chaqueño (Schinopsis balansae) used to grow in the north of Santa Fe and the western half of Chaco, and there were some Corrientes. Because this wood is strong has tannin in it, human beings cut down too many trees for a hundred years.

The park has different kinds of places in it: scrubland, savanna, swamps, and small lakes. The red quebracho (Schinopsis lorentzii), white quebracho (Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco), algarrobo (Prosopis alba), and lapacho (Tabebuia spp.), all of which are commercially valuable species, live in scrubland. Large animals live in the park, for example cougars. Yacare caimans and capybaras swim in the lakes. Armadillos, South American tapirs, black howler monkeys, and plains viscachas and more than 340 species of bird live in the park.

Human beings in the Mocoví and Toba peoples live in the protected area.

Pictures

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  Carpincho Lagoon and the jungle that surrounds it
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  View of the Black River
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  National Park visitor center in the camping area.

See also

• Campo del Cielo

References

• Administración de Parques Nacionales - Argentina's National Park Administration (in Spanish)