Lanín National Park is located to the southwest of the Neuquen Province, bordered by Chile to the west and touching the Nahuel Huapi National Park in the southernmost region. Was created in 1937 with the purpose of preserving its ecosystems and natural landscape, its woods and forests, including here some species not found elsewhere, the araucaria ( monkey puzzle tree ) and two southern beeches much sought for the quality of their timber such as raulí (Nothofagus alpína) and the roble pellín (Nothofagus obliqua).
In a landscape of lakes and mountains, it covers an area of more than 1.000.000 acres, the park possesses significant valleys with 24 lakes formed from glaciers and countless rivers that empty into the Atlantic Ocean, except the ones that form the basin of the Lacar Lake, which empty into the Pacific Ocean through the Hua Hum River, forming in its course waterfalls and narrow lakes. The Andes has different strands of mountains branching whose peaks decrease in altitude towards the east, and there are more undulating hills. The highest altitude is an extinct volcano, the Lanin at 3,776 m (12,385 ft) above sea level. The Park took its name from this volcano, whose cone covered by permanent snow overpasses 5000 ft. the other peeks of the zone, dominating the mountain's landscape from any angle. 
 

Eco-regions

Patagonic Forests: Its climate goes from warm to cold and wet, with wintered snows and rains. There frosts along the whole year with strong winds from the West. It is characterized by a mountain landscape with abrupt relief, with glacier valleys.

Patagonic Steppes: Represents the medium and inferior basin of rivers with atlantic slopes. The weather is cold and dry with wintered rains lower than 400 mm. Strong winds from the west, dry summers and frosts along the whole year are characteristically.

Altos Andes: Hills and slopes chains over the Puna characterized them. The climate is cold with permanent snows. The rains from the eco-region varied between the 100 and 200 mm. The lands are skinny and have an incipient evolution.

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