Llancanelo Lagoon

Llancanelo Lagoon

Llancanelo Lagoon (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 Lagoon is a provincial nature reserve. It hosts a variety of bird species, including flamingos, black-necked swans, herons and ducks. The lagoon is also a Ramsar Convention site (RS #759) since 8 November 1995.

References

* [http://www.wetlands.org/reports/ris/6AR005en.pdf Laguna de Llancanelo] — Information sheet on Ramsar Wetlands.
* [http://www.patrimonionatural.com/HTML/provincias/mendoza/llancanelo/llancanelo.asp Laguna de Llancanelo] at PatrimonioNatural.com.


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