translated from Spanish: We celebrate National Park Day

As well as museums, monuments and big cities, national parks are one of the great tourist pillars of countries. In Argentina, today we celebrate National Park Day and the one that is celebrated on November 6 has a why. Well, it has to do with the man in the image below.

He is Francisco Pascasio Moreno, a scientist, explorer, naturalist and conservationist best known to all Argentines as Perito Moreno, a name that was awarded to the glacier located in the Lago Argentino department of the province of Santa Cruz.Y is that one day as today, but from 1903, Moreno donated to the National State a fraction of land with the condition of “maintaining its natural physiognomy and that the works that are carried out are only those that facilitate comfort , recreation and rest for the visitor’s life.” Today, that land is Nahuel Huapi National Park.

Nahuel Huapi National Park.

Thus, three decades later, Argentina became the third country in the world to found a national park and the first in Latin America. The first was the United States and Canada.Currently, Argentina has a total of 45 national parks that are spread throughout the territory. Chronologically ordered, the largest national parks are: Los Glaciares National Park (724,000 hectares), Nahuel Huapi National Park (717,261 hectares), Lanín National Park (412,000 Los Alerces National Park (263,000 hectares), Talampaya National Park (215,000 hectares) and Iberá National Park (183,500 hectares). Obviously, the vast majority need to be mentioned. But, as is National Park Day, we send you as a task to find out what the others are and where they are located. To take care of nature!

Original source in Spanish