Argentina: Home to a new World Heritage site

Argentina - Floridas News originally published at Argentina - Floridas News

Friday, 07 July 2017
Information for the Press N°: 
279/17

Los Alerces National Park was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on 7 July 2017. The 41st meeting of the World Heritage Committee gathered in Krakow, Poland, decided to include the Park in the World Heritage List.

The Argentine Foreign Ministry welcomes this decision and underscores that it is the outcome of joint work by several areas of the Federal and Provincial Government.

The official piece of news published on UNESCO’s website included the following description of Los Alerces National Park:

“The Los Alerces National park is located in the Andes of northern Patagonia and has a western boundary, which coincides with the Chilean border. Successive glaciations have moulded the landscape in the region creating spectacular features such as moraines, glacial cirques and clear-water lakes. The vegetation is dominated by dense temperate forests, which give way to alpine meadows higher up under the rocky Andean peaks. The property is vital for the protection of some of the last portions of continuous Patagonian Forest in an almost pristine state and is the habitat for a number of endemic and threatened species of flora and fauna.”

Press release No. 279/17
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