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Argentina Tours & Travel | Monte Leon National Park

Opened in 2004, Monte Leon is the newest of Argentina’s national parks for visitors who travel Patagonia on Argentina tours. Once operated as an estancia, the land was purchased by environmental organizations and donated to the Argentine government to preserve Patagonian coastal land and its paleontological record. Until 1930, guano was extracted from the park's shores. These 152,500 acres of steppe, cliffs and beaches are located along the Atlantic coast in Santa Cruz Province.
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There is much wildlife to encounter for those who travel to Argentina on Patagonia tours in Monte Leon National Park. The park provides habitat for guanacos, ostrich-like lesser rheas, wolves and pumas in addition to a wealth of marine life, including the world's fourth largest colony of Magellanic penguins and twenty species of coastal birds. The Tehuelche were the first people to inhabit the area 10,000 years ago.; The weather is cold and dry with less than fifteen inches of rain in winter. The closest town is Puerto Santa Cruz.
For more information about visiting Monte Leon National Park when you travel Patagonia on Argentina tours, email monteleon@apn.gov.ar

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