Llancanelo Lake
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Official name | Laguna de Llancanelo |
Designated | 8 November 1995 |
Reference no. | 759[1] |
Llancanelo Lake (Spanish: Laguna de Llancanelo) is a wetland with an area of 650 km2 located in the Malargüe Department in the south of Mendoza Province, Argentina, 75 km from the city of Malargüe, at 1,280 m above mean sea level, within the arid region near the Andes in the limit between the regions of Cuyo and Patagonia.
Llancanelo Lake is a provincial nature reserve. It hosts a variety of bird species, including flamingos, black-necked swans, herons and ducks. The lake is also a Ramsar Convention site (RS #759) since 8 November 1995.
References[]
- ^ "Laguna de Llancanelo". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- Laguna de Llancanelo — Information sheet on Ramsar Wetlands.
- (in Spanish) Laguna de Llancanelo at PatrimonioNatural.com.
Coordinates: 35°37′20″S 69°08′33″W / 35.62222°S 69.14250°W
Categories:
- Lakes of Mendoza Province
- Ramsar sites in Argentina
- Nature reserves
- Wetlands of Argentina
- Protected areas of Mendoza Province
- South American protected area stubs
- Mendoza Province geography stubs