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The Best Attractions In Zapala

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Zapala is a city and touristic destination in the Patagonian province of Neuquén, Argentina with about 32,000 inhabitants according to the 2010 census [INDEC]. The city is located at the geographic center of the province at the confluence of national and provincial roads, on a route to the Andes and Chile. The city has an important cement factory. Zapala is near the Laguna Blanca National Park and a ski resort and is situated in a steppe region, known as Pehuenia, which has small Araucaria forests and includes the nearby town of Aluminé and other towns.
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The Best Attractions In Zapala

  • 1. Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales Zapala
    The National University of Comahue is an Argentine national university with branches in the provinces of Neuquén, Río Negro and Chubut, with a center in the city of Neuquén and units in Viedma, Bariloche, San Martín de los Andes, Cipolletti, Zapala, Allen, General Roca, Choele Choel, San Antonio Este, Villa Regina, Esquel, Puerto Madryn, Trelew. It is the largest public university in Argentine Patagonia.
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  • 2. Parque Nacional Laguna Blanca Zapala
    Laguna Blanca National Park is a National Park in the west of the province of Neuquén, Argentina, close to the town of Zapala. The park around the lagoon was created in 1940 to protect the lagoon and particularly the population of black-necked swans . It has an area of 112.5 km². The lagoon is situated in the Patagonian steppe, surrounded by hills and gorges. It has important aquatic bird fauna, of several species and in great number. The lagoon used to host the largest known subpopulation of the endemic Patagonia frog , but this has been extirpated by introduced predatory fish; the species survives in isolated ponds in the buffer zone of the national park.Near the lagoon is the Salamanca cave, historically inhabited by humans, where rock paintings, typical of northern Patagonia, can be ...
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  • 3. Rio Alumine Alumine
    Río Frías Formation is a Middle Miocene geologic formation made up sedimentary rock located in Aysén Region, western Patagonia. The formation crops out along the upper couse of Cisnes River . Marsupial fossils have been found in the formation. The Friasian period in the South American Land Mammal Ages is named after the formation.
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  • 5. Lago Huechulafquen Province Of Neuquen
    Huechulafquen Lake is a lake in Neuquén Province, Patagonian Argentina. This glacial lake is located in the Andean mountains in Lanín National Park some 25 kilometres from Junín de los Andes and 60 kilometres from San Martín de los Andes. It is one of Argentina's largest Andean lakes and is fed by glacier and meltwater streams and lakes.
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  • 7. Volcano Copahue Province Of Neuquen
    Copahue is a stratovolcano in the Andes on the border of Bío Bío Region, Chile and Neuquén Province, Argentina. There are nine volcanic craters along a 2 km line, the easternmost of which is historically the most active, and contains a 300 m wide crater lake with a pH ranging between 0.18 and 0.30. Eruptions from this crater lake have ejected pyroclastic rocks and chilled liquid sulfur fragments. Although the lake emptied during the 2000 eruption, it later returned to its previous levels. Copahue means sulphur waters in Mapuche.Copahue sits on a basement of sedimentary and volcanic rocks ranging in age from Eocene to Pliocene. The modern volcano sits in a volcanically active area, with a caldera from the Pliocene, measuring 20 km by 15 km, lying to the east of Copahue. The modern volcan...
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