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Conguillió National Park

National Park

Conguillió National Park, in the Andes of the Araucanía Region of Chile, takes its Mapuche name meaning water with araucaria seeds and was established in 1950, covering about 608 square kilometers around the Llaima volcano and the Sierra Nevada. Its landscape mixes lava fields with forest and small lakes, UNESCO designated it part of the Araucarias Biosphere Reserve in 1983, and it also lies within the Kutralkura Geopark, recognized by the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network in 2019; its araucaria forests have served as a filming location for the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs.

Facts
Classification
Governance Type
Governance by Government 1
Realm
Terrestrial 1
International Designation
UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 1
Designation Category
National Park 1
Established Year
1950 1
Area (sq km)
608 1
Governing Body
Governing Body (category)
Corporacion Nacional Forestal (Chile) 1
Sources
1. Conguillío National Park (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, area (converted to square kilometres where the infobox gives another unit)
  • Infobox: established
    1950
  • Lead
    Conguillío National Park is in the Andes, in the provinces of Cautín and Malleco, in the Araucanía Region of Chile also known as Region IX.
  • Infobox: governing_body
    Corporación Nacional Forestal
  • Article text
    In 1983, the park, along with Alto Bío Bío National Reserve, was designated by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve, which is known as Araucarias Biosphere Reserve.
  • Source text, realm: terrestrial
    Conguillío National Park is in the Andes, in the provinces of Cautín and Malleco, in the Araucanía Region of Chile also known as Region IX.
  • Part Of: Chile, Lead paragraph
    Andes, in the provinces of Cautín and Malleco, in the Araucanía Region of Chile
  • On Continent: South America
    Conguillío National Park is in the Andes, in the provinces of Cautín and Malleco, in the Araucanía Region of Chile also known as Region IX.
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