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What to do in Caleta Olivia , Patagonia Argentina
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the Natural Monument ‘Bosque Petrificado’
(Petrified Forest): located 185 kilometers to the south of Caleta
Olivia. To consent to this place it is necessary to go to the
south by the route #3 (87 kilometers) and then to deviate to the
Southwest by the provincial route #93 until the stall of the park
guard. Created in 1954, it is located in the depression ‘Bajos
del Guanaco’ where the hills ‘Cadrado’, ‘Madre’
and ‘Hija’ 400 meters high are. The forest that gave
him origin dates of 150.000.000 of years and the petrified remains
correspond in its majority to araucarias and other coniferous
ones. Some of their trunks reach 30 meters long and 3 diameter
meters being the biggest in the world. |
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Patagonia's Net
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Caleta Olivia - www.patagonias.net
Los Crisantemos 113 - 8300 Neuquen - Argentina - Phone/Fax + 54 299 4330292