Campo de los Alisos National Park
Encyclopedia
The Campo de los Alisos National Park is a national park
of Argentina
, located in the Chicligasta Department, province
of Tucumán
. It has an area of 100 square kilometres.
This national park was created in order to protect a representative sample of the montanos jungle and forest ecosystem
. Annual rainfall here oscillates between 100 and 200 mm.
The park is located on the eastern slope of the Nevados del Aconquija. The Aconquija mountains are the southern extension of the Calchaquíes Valleys, the western first steps raising from the Chaco-Pampean plain.
Flora and fauna vary considerably with the different heights, from a jungle at lower levels to snow-covered mountainous terrain at 5,000 m.
National park
A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or...
of Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, located in the Chicligasta Department, province
Provinces of Argentina
Argentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city...
of Tucumán
Tucumán Province
Tucumán is the most densely populated, and the smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the capital is San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighboring provinces are, clockwise from the north: Salta, Santiago del Estero and...
. It has an area of 100 square kilometres.
This national park was created in order to protect a representative sample of the montanos jungle and forest ecosystem
Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving , physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such as air, soil, water and sunlight....
. Annual rainfall here oscillates between 100 and 200 mm.
The park is located on the eastern slope of the Nevados del Aconquija. The Aconquija mountains are the southern extension of the Calchaquíes Valleys, the western first steps raising from the Chaco-Pampean plain.
Flora and fauna vary considerably with the different heights, from a jungle at lower levels to snow-covered mountainous terrain at 5,000 m.
Source
- Administración Nacional de Parques Nacionales - National Parks Administration of Argentina (in Spanish and English)