El Rey National Park

TheEl ReyNational Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional ElRey) is a national park of Argentina, located in the AntaDepartment, province of Salta, in the Argentine North-west, 80 km from the provincial capital. It has an area of441.62 km.The park was created in order to preserve a representa-tive sample of the Southern Andean Yungas ecoregionand transition environments. The climate is warm, andannual rainfall oscillates between 500 and 700 mm. Theora is varied, showing dierent species in ve levels ac-cording to height (from 750 to 2,000 m). The fauna in-cludes tapirs, anteaters and peccaries, as well as sh in therivers, brooks and lakes. The tapir or anta, which eatsaquatic plants, is the largest South American mammal,weighing up to 300 kg.The protected area was inhabited by farmer indigenousgroups, the oldest inhabitants of the Yungas, and includesarchaeological sites.

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