Somuncurá Provincial Reserve

Somuncurá Provincial Reserve or Meseta de Somuncura Provicial Natural Protected Area (Area Natural Protegida Provincial Meseta de Somuncurá) is a protected place in Argentina. Plants and animals live there. People are not allowed to do whatever they want here, for example build a city. However, some people still raise animals and look for oil.

Ground
This park is on a high place shaped like a table in Río Negro Province and Chubut.  It has volcanoes, a flat volcano plain, and giant steps made out of natural basalt rock.  There are many lagoon lakes with underwater plants in them.  Three streams go through the park: La Ventana, Los Berros, and El Verde. The Velcheta stream flows into the bigger Rio Negro.

Importance
This place is important because all of the Pleurodema somuncurense amphibians and most of the Atelognathus reverberii frogs that are still alive live here and because it has many places where scientists can find old things from Argentina's indigenous people.

Animals
This place has endangered frogs in it. The flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis also lives here. Scientists think other birds, for example the Patagonian tinamou Tinamotis ingoufi might live here too.

References

Category:Argentina
Category:Parks