Lago Puelo
Walks Copper mines National park Organization
Hotels and Lodgings

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(Puelo, of the Mapuche Dilutes of the east") it is the 
lowest valley in the District and seat of the Park 
National Lago Puelo, one of the smallest but richer in 
flora (endemic species) of the Cordillera Patagónica, 
given its geographical location and hábitat conditions.
Although it was recognized as municipality April of 1928, 2 it remained sleeping until few 
years ago. Today, avid in a way of different life, they find in Puelo the ideal place to live a nurtured group of people.

It is a strong community that bases their sustenance on the family industry of tourist services, production and prosecution of fine fruits (sweet), viveros (flowers and plants), dry flowers, hop and crafts, among the main items. 
The Municipality of Lago Puelo includes the Urban Plant, the Villa of the Lake, the Place Between Rivers and The Swallows. 
This small city, located beside the lake Puelo that harbors to more than 5.000 inhabitants, it serves like urban base to the Park National homonym. 
The benevolence of its floors allows emprendimientos agrícolo-cattlemen, similar to those of its neighboring towns. 
To him you arrives from The Bolsón, crossing the cover that welcomes to the County from the Chubut to the travelers guiding them to that traditional place cordillerano, for those that consent from Chubut, takes the deviation on the route Nac. 258 to the height of the station satelital of communications. 
Lake Puelo, celebrates annually in the mark of the party of the forest and its environment, with a varied and colorful handmade fair that frames the property where musical shows are offered. Coincidentemente, the Days of Ecopuelo are developed, where ecological type activities are developed with the participation of diverse entities that you/they struggle for the sanity of the half-atmosphere. 
Park National Lago Puelo: It is in the NO of the Pcia. Of the Chubut, to 4 km. Of the equal town it names. In spite of being the smallest Park, in their 23.000 hectares they can be elementary services to camp, to be provisioned and to make different activities, among them the walks for the lake on board boats that offer this lacustrine service, which arrives to the Cloudy river, the one Ends of the river Epuyen and the birth of the river Puelo, outlet of the lake to the Océano Pacífico. 
For the natural beauties that surround it, he/she has become one of the favorite ones for the countless acampantes that annually arrive to the district. Of a pleasant climatic characteristic, common in the area, with abundant rains and special annual distribution of their temperatures, result of their location, to some scarce 200 mts. regarding the level of the sea.

 

Hoteles, Hosterías, Albergues
Albergue Ailin-Co Ruta 16 Villa del Lago 499078
Albergue El Rincón Ruta 16 Rotonda Maderera 499252
Hostería Enebros Ruta 16 499054
Hostal del Lago Ruta 16 acc. al Parque 499199

Cabañas

Auquin Lemu Ruta 16 km 16 499251
Villa Antares Ruta 16 km 11 499334
Costa del Azul Ruta 16 499240
Jinggo Cerro Radal 499263
La Granja Ruta 16 Villa del Lago 499265
La Osa Ruta 16 km 3.5 499208
La Portada Ruta 16 Paralelo 42 492846
La Yoica Ruta 16 Paraje Entre Ríos 499200
Los Robles Ruta 16 km 5 499304
Maldonado Ruta 16  
Nosotros Ruta 16 Paralelo 42 492586
Peuma Hue Ruta 16 Paraje Entre Ríos 15 60 3652
Tricao Ruta 16 15 60 8606

Campings

La Pasarela Costa Río Azul 499061
Lago Puelo Costa del Lago 499183
Los Quinchos Ruta 16 Villa del Lago 499074
Noccan Kami Ruta 16  

Restaurantes - Confiterías

Restaurant Ahonik kenk   499148
Restaurant Lago Puelo Av. Los Notros 499307
Pizzería del Centro    
Parrilla Los Robles Ruta 16 km 7 499304
Lago Pub Ruta 16 499186

 

Guided walks - Cavalcades

Raid to the Laguna Huemul 
Modality: Trekking 
Level of Difficulty: Demanding 
Duration: Complete day 
Description: Walk to the Laguna Huemul, located to the west of the town, during the same one chats will be given on the flora and fauna of the place. Exit after the breakfast, return an afternoon for the snack foresaw lunch in the mountain. . (I price for person 20 $, it is not included the lunch neither the snack, a vianda)  will be taken 
Chilean path 
Modality: Trekking 
Level of difficulty: Easy 
Duration: Complete day 
Description: Traveling the right riverbank of the Blue River and going into in the path to the international limit with Chile. It is eaten lunch in the property of the posse of National Gendarmería, then you the forest travels and chats are given on the fauna and the flora of the place. (I price for person 20 $, it is not included the lunch neither the snack, a vianda will be taken)

Raid to the Hill The Morrudo 
Modality: Trekking 
Level of difficulty: Demanding 
Duration: Two days. 
Description: He/she will spend the night in vicinity of the summit of the Cerro Morrudo. During the march chats will be given on the flora and fauna of the place. 
The transfer of the provision will be carried out by means of a horse and a pilchero.

(I price for person 50 $, it includes a dinner and two lunches, the snack and breakfast by day following it will be considered, to take a vianda)

 

A day of mining in the Patagonia 
Search of gold

This exit contemplates the visit to three mining locations, one of coal, another of copper and the third of gold, the last one was exploited in the antiquity by old residents and adventurous, there they will be been able to see this abandoned mining works. In this same place our activities will be developed obtaining gold by means of challas and canaletas
MINA OF COBRE "CONDORCANQUI"
The same one is located to 10 minutes of walk to the east of the route 258. Although the access is not difficult an ascent will be contemplated to free hands should be controlled and coordinated to avoid the detachment of rocks and loose material.

There are places in the world that you/they are only and irrepetibles. For landscape, for the transparent of their sky, for the pleasant of their climate or their people's cálidez. There are places in the world that you/they are exotic and unforgettable, but very few they gather all those conditions meetings. This is the case of Lago Puelo a true refuge of the nature where the pleasure of the senses is lived to the maximum. 
  
With the Park National Lago Puelo like door to an exuberant forest valdiviana and the lake of meek waters that he/she invites to the serenity, this small villorrio of the Parallel one 42, to receive the visitor with the majestuosidad of their landscape. 
Lago Puelo's Valley is protected by summits that you/they invite to fly with the imagination. The eternal snow of the Hill Three Picks, the friendly presence of the Currumahuida or the cord of the Motoco that he/she rises to the west are images that are stored in the traveler's retinas that the region travels for the first time.
It dilutes and sky in a festival of colors, they mix on the mirror of the lake, in which can be practiced canotaje, diving (allowed by the special temperature of the water) or simply to navigate in search of regional corners where the man's hand didn't capture its print.
Here, the lovers of the sport fishing will be able to live the nobleman's emotion it combats with a trout rainbow in the end of a line or to marvel for the size and weight of a salmon of the peaceful one. 
If the visitor is lover of the strong sensations (but surrounded of an important mark of security) you/he/she can opt for the rafting. 
 Caudalosos regional rivers, with 
rapids of degree 3 and 4 will make that the adventure is unforgettable. This activity is recommended for those that want to feel the fresh caress of the water on its faces, while they descend for rivers of incomparable beauty.


Those that prefer to emulate Icaro and to enjoy the landscape from the air, will be able to make it in parapente. Groups of cultores of this air specialty take advantage of to the maximum the natural possibilities that it offers them the typical regional geography. "The thermal ones are only the specialists comment, among those that the current Argentinean champion of flight is counted. 

Undoubtedly, there is who prefer to traffic for the life with the feet in the earth". For them, the entertainment offer and distraction is wide. Lake Puelo and the whole region allow to develop the discipline of the trekking, long walks in the mountain, accompanied by experienced guides. The fearless ones (and in good athletic state) they can try to make summit in some near hill to be taken I get the satisfaction of the obtained achievement.

The bicycle or the horse?. is a question that many are asked. The paths of the region allow 
the he/she practices of the mountain bike. It is possible to arrive until the Argentinean frontier - Chilean for paths that travel a privileged completely natural botanical garden or to travel to horse the near areas to the town. 

Are you of the sedentary type?. does the region Also offer him the opportunity to prove its know-how with a " iron " in the hole 6. A spectacular golf court, surrounded of forests and with natural obstacles they will show him a different way of practicing this sport. 
Excuses don't exist. Everything the best thing that the region has to offer it is to the visitor's disposition, so that the memory is taken in its memory or through the lens of a camera after a photographic safari.

 

 

This National Park protects an unique landscape in the region norpatagónica: the lowest lake, located to 200 msnm, is at the same time the warmest, and the hillsides boscosas they are the most extensive in the Argentinean south, upholstering of green until the 1500 msnm. The glaciaciones modified the Mountain range of you Walk them and they worked 
the Paso Puelo, for which you/they enter typical trees of Chile and only in our country: the ulmos, hazel trees, olivillos and lingues are ignored for the Argentineans.

The formerly burnt hillsides and their favorable exhibition offer refuge to an important huemules population, Andean deer in extinction danger. The sectors intocados maintains intact samples of the forest rainy valdiviano, with imposing native larches. The low valleys and of benign climate they are inhabited by numerous birds, with more than a hundred registered species. 
In spite of their small size (23.700 hectares), it is one of the parks national patagónicos with more biodiversity, to what you/they sink spectacular scenarios, as the formidable river Cloudy chubutense that shares with the Park Provincial homonym

NATIONAL PARKS
        The National Parks are a group of protected areas dedicated to the conservation of the natural and cultural patrimony of the Argentineans. This system is integrated for more than 30 conservation units under different handling categories: National park (P.N.), he/she Reserves National (R.N.), Natural Monument (M.N.), he/she Reserves Natural Strict (R.N.E.), Natural Silvestre Reserves (R.N.S.) and Educational Natural Reservation (R.N.Ed.). 

For what reason this areas are they protected? 

* To assure the conservation of the different natural atmospheres of the country with their flora and their fauna. 
* To protect rivers, lakes and other systems hídricos. 
* To conserve landscapes in their natural state, facilitating their recreational and educational use. 

Why new National Parks do they feel? 

* Because they are not still protected samples of the entirety of the natural atmospheres that possesses our country. 
* To avoid that the constant incorporation of lands for the human use eliminates the readiness of nature samples that you/they conserve its original characteristics. 
* Because the fundamental base of the humanity's technological development is in the available genetic resources in the nature.

How is the system organized? 

The Administration of National Parks, organism autarchical clerk of the Secretary of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, are the responsible for the control of the following conservation units, discriminated against by atmospheres:

* Forests of Yungas: P.N. Baritú, Calilegua, Field of the Alisos and The King. 
* Oriental or Humid Chaco: P.N. I Laugh Pilcomayo, Chaco, Mburucuyá and R.N.E. Colonia Benítez. 
* Forests Andean patagónicos: P.N. Lanín, The Arrayanes, Nahuel Huapi, Lago Puelo, The Larches, Perito Moreno, The Glaciers and Earth of the Fire. 
* Central Sierra and county of the mount: P.N. Gulch of the Condorito, Sierra of the Jaws and Lihué Calel. 
* Western Chaco or I Dry off: R.N. Formosa
* Forest Paranaense: P.N. Iguazú and R.N.E. San Antonio. 
* Palmares and county of the hairspring: P.N. The Palmar. 
* Islands and Delta of the Paraná: P.N. Predelta and R.N.E. Otamendi. 
* Other atmospheres: M.N. Lagoon of the Pozuelos and Petrified Forests, P.N. The Cardones and Laguna Blanca, and R.N.E. The Leoncito. 
* Alive species: M.N. Southern Frank Whale, Huemul and Taruca. 

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