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Iberá, which means "shining water" in the Guaraní language, is the largest wetland in Argentina. With an area of 13,000 km2 it covers almost 15% of the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Northeast.
The Great Iberá Park is one of the best destinations in Latin America for wildlife observation. From different access portals with growing tourist infrastructure, different itinearies can be undertaken by boat, canoe or kayak; on foot, horseback, bicycle or vehicle, to observe birds, mammals and reptiles in their natural environment. With more than 4,000 species of flora and fauna, the region is home to 30% of the country's biodiversity. Due to its climate, with an average annual temperature of 25ºC, it can be visited all year round, making it an ideal place to combine various interests: ecology, adventure, culture and tradition, history, rural life and gastronomy.
The wetland occupies the basin of the ancient valley of the Paraná River with which it remained connected until about 10,000 years ago. The water that today gives life to its marshes and its more than 60 lagoons is brought in by rainfall and retained by the marsh vegetation, with only a quarter of it draining through the Corriente River.
Large marshlands, temporarily flooded "bañados," mantles of floating vegetation (embalsados), lagoons and large mirrors of water, interspersed with grasslands on sandy hills, palm groves, dry savannahs, humid woodlands, are some examples of the landscape diversity of this wetland, which has allowed the development of a great variety of fauna.
Ornithologists and birdwatchers from all over the world visit Iberá to see birds in their natural habitat belonging to more than 340 species. Many of these are very rare and endangered elsewhere, such as the strange-tailed tyrant (Alectrurus risora), the Park's emblematic bird.
Iberá is also an unparalleled place to easily spot large mammals and reptiles, such as marsh deer, capybaras, foxes, yacare caimans and curiyú boas, and occasionally also even aguará-guazús (maned wolves), wild cats, anteaters, and collared peccaries.
(Summarized from information from materials published by the Ministry of Tourism of Corrientes, Fundación Rewilding Argentina, and other sources.)
Gran Parque Iberá
The Great Iberá Park is located in the province of Corrientes in northeastern Argentina, 185 km from the provincial capital, almost 1,000 km from Buenos Aires.
Map coordinates
of Portal Laguna Iberá, Colonia Pellegrini
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