Circulating for exemplary curpulentos of oak pellín and araucaria, encased for
the majestuosidad of the hills, the lake ÑORQUINCO conforms the South limit of the one
National park Lanín next to the lake Pihué, the stream of the same name and the Pulmarí,
I study that is overturned in the basins of the Limay and the Black one.
From Aluminé -minuscule city located 385 meters on the level of the sea, among
the mountains of they Taste Lil and the cord of Rucachoroi - who wants to reach the costs
of the lake it will follow an inverse road to that of the waters.
First the provincial route 23 and then the 51 that heading for the border step of Icalma
he/she goes threading a splendid rosary of landscapes.
After about thirty kilometers of good rubble, the sectional one appears before the visitor of
guardaparques -with their wooden walls and their chimney - on the oriental head
of the lake. There it is necessary to leave the car and to begin to walk for a path.
Maybe with the guardaparque like guide (everything is question of asking him).
In little more than two hours the walker will be able to become intimate with the superb nature
comarcana.
The first gift is the cascade Ñorquinco that is taken down from the high of a wall
of basaltic rock, wrapped by a pregnant forest of humidity.
If one cheers up to climb a little, it can contemplate from behind the fall of the water, to the one
I repair of an upholstered hollow of mosses, ferns and stream tears.
Another time in the path, you can continue ascending or to prepare to navigate in canoe or ka -
own yak, repechar the coastal pedregullo and to enjoy a chapuzón, option this last one
exclusively summer. Who opt to ascend they won't take in reaching the call
Bed of the Thatched top, plateau from which restrains an imposing panorama.
Frenre to them, the capricious manchón of the lake, the hills Trelel, Hill The Plateau and
Melipilum, bristled by the frond Andean-patagónica.
To their backs, a pure forest of araucarias, generous in millennial copies.
This surprising teritorio always rewards the curiosity.
It is easy to meet with an altar mapuche or to discover signs of presence animal, as
caves of foxes and revocaderos of boars.
The region of the lake Ñorquinco is one of the most attractive fringes in the geography
Neuquina.
However, it is not of those most visited ones. There, still, it can spend a season in
company of the wild thing. |