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Nahuel Huapi National
Park - Patagonia Argentina.
Sus ambientes y vegetación
Nahuel Huapi National Park covers approximately 710.000 hectares
and is the second largest in the Argentine Republic.
It occupies the northern part of the Patagonian Andes.
Owing to sharp rainfall and temperature gradients, the vegetation covering this mountainous region comprises a
great veriety of different types. The former factor is the result of the predominant winds from the Pacific: from
West to East, the average yearly rainfall drops from 3500 to 600 mm.
The temperature gradient is inversely related to altitude, a fall of some 6% per 100 meters.
The local lake level is 760 m.a.s.l. and rises to roughly 2.200 m in the main mountainous areas.
Some of the main vegetation units are:
    
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