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FISHING:
the artificial lake Exequiel Ramos Mexía is the biggest
in the Republic Argentina (816 square kilometers) and its extensive
costs have geographical accidents of different characteristic
that they allow to practice the fishing in any modality the tourist
wants. The most used are the spinning, the fly casting and the
trolling, this last one embarked. Either in the lake or waters
under the Chocón dike, in a short distance of the river
Limay, very good brown trout, rainbow trout or pejerrey copies
can be obtained. They have been captured brown of up to 10 kilos.
DINOSAURS: some of the most important discoveries in the world with regard to this topic, took place in Villa El Chocón. In 1987 a paleontologist and a geologist of the Museum of Natural Sciences of the ‘Universidad Nacional del Comahue’ carried out an important study in the region. Then they exhumed and they studied two important dinosaurs: the Ribachisaurus Tessonei and the Andessaurus Delgadoi, primitive dinosaur 15 meters long. In 1993 Rubén Carolini, a resident of Villa El Chocón, discovered the biggest carnivorous dinosaur in all the times, studied by paleontologists of the region who denominated it Giganotosaurus Carolinii. You can see it in the Municipal Museum. In the rocks of the surroundings of the lake Exequiel Ramos Mexía has been preserved foot-prints of dinosaurs that lived 105 million years ago in the area of El Chocón-Picún Leufú. |
Places
to visit in the area |
The
Hydroelectric Complex El Chocón:
(when the construction began it was called “the work of
the century”) that has a prey 92 meters high, 400 meters
wide in the base and 2,222 meters of longitude of crowning. The Municipal Museum: where Mr. Rubén Carolini shows us the most important dinosaur found until the moment, the Giganotosaurus Carolinii. Other: Places of paleontological discoveries, petrified forests, canyons with important geologic structures and ‘ignitas’ (prints of dinosaurs). |
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