National park Quebrada del Condorito

The National park Quebrada del Condorito is in Argentine, in the province of Córdoba, to 85 km of the town of Córdoba, in the center of the Sierras of Córdoba. It belongs to an protected area of: 150000 hectares, but the national park only counts any: 37000, is 370 km ², the remainder is a Provincial Reserve.

It was created in 1996.

The park constitutes important “a fish pond” of condors, species in danger of extinction in South America.

Geography

According to Argentinian traditional phytogeography, this national park is within the natural unit of the Chaco, in what is called its Distrito Serrano (or mountainous district). Just as of other extra-Andean mountainous formations great height of the west and the center of Argentina, the Sierras of Córdoba have a type of natural conditions similar to those prevailing in the Andes cordillera.

The dominant vegetation is that of the Pampa of Achala. It is made of pastures of altitude with small thickets isolated from tabaquillo, similar to those which are characteristic of the Argentinian North-West.

One of the projecting features of the zone is the presence of an appreciable number of species and endemic subspecies of the high summits of these mountainous chains. For example fauna counts two Amphibians (a Crapaud and small a ceratophrys or '' escuerzo '') and two reptiles (a green Lézard and a snake listed on the list of the species in danger), suitable for the biome of Achala. The fox Colorado (culpeo) form a typical race of these mountains, while among the birds one recognized various exclusive species of these places.

In spite of the fact of being rather near to the big city of Córdoba, and tourist cities very attended like Villa Carlos Paz, Alta Gracia, Tanti, Undermined Clavero etc, the territory of the park remained virgin until the beginning of XXIe century, as well from the landscape point of view as from the point of view ecology, this being due to its difficult access. And it is precisely this difficult accessibility which explains why this territory was regarded as one of the sites crowned by the ethnos group of the Comechingón, before the arrival of the Spanish Conquistador S.

Climate

The climate is moderate of mountain, with a great thermal amplitude between the day and the night and the summer and the winter. During the winters (from May to the beginning of August), snows are usual. In winter the temperatures are frequently negative on quasi all the surface of the park.

Relief

The quebrada (or cañon) which gives its name to the site is a deep ravine (or cañadón ) whose higher edges are located at height of the very soft planed flight of the Andean condors. The relief is irregular with narrow a cañon (or quebrada ) by which the torrent-like río Condorito (affluent of the Río Segundo) rolls its limpid water.

Flora

The flora consists of meadows of mountain with Mousse S, Fougère S, Lichen S, as well as glazing bar of Solanum verbascifolium ( tabaquillo ) and - in a less soft measurement of the schinus and palm trees caranday (called " cocos" in Córdoba).

Fauna

Until the beginning of the 20th century, one reported the frequentation of the places by Jaguar S, Guanaco S, Pécari S and tucotucos. In 2006, however principal fauna is made up (in addition to the condors which gave their name to the park) of Puma S, of Tatou S, stags of the pampas, of foxes culpeo, let us chinchillons, of vultures urubus or '' jote '', like the Urubu with red head or the Sarcoramphe king, and of Léporidés.

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