TORRES DEL PAINE by Elena Montañez https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all Marcos Balmori, Elena Blanco, Matias Camilo, Antonio Castro, Jorge González 3C en-us 2017-11-15 15:13:57 UTC 2023-08-19 14:03:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Fauna eleblancom https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207242368 The diversity of environments described above results in the presence of a large number of mammals that inhabit the park. The most wanted specimen, and also more feared, is the puma that lives in the eastern sector. Other emblematic species of Torres del Paine are mentioned below:
  • Huemul
  • Guanaco .
  • Zorro Culpeo
  • Zorro Chilla
  • Chingue
The fauna of the park presents a great diversity, being able to observe approximately 100 species.
]]> 2017-11-15 15:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207242368 Flora eleblancom https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207267260 As it is said that in Torres del Paine National Park you can experience the four seasons of the year in a single day, it is also possible to observe a flora as varied as the climate with four vegetation types:

  • Pre-Andean scrubland that occupies most of the surface of the park, present in plateaus and plains.
  • Deciduous Magellanic forest composed of tree communities, mostly by Lenga.
  • Patagonian steppe that covers plains and plateaus in the region. Presence of prostrate shrubs, plant cushions and grasslands.
  • Andean Desert have vegetation devoid of tall trees and shrubs. The plants live much of the year in vegetative recess.

]]> 2017-11-15 16:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207267260 History Jorgondiz https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207376646  
Torres del Paine National Park is one of the most important national parks in Chile. It's located in the southern Chilean Patagonia. The park was designated a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1978. It has a big variety of landscapes like mountains, lakes, rivers, valleys and glaciars.

The Torres del Paine are the distinctive three granite peaks of the Paine mountain range or Paine Massif. They extend up to 2,500 metres above sea level.

It was created the 13 of May of 1959 and it has a surface of 181000 hectares. Many of its tourists are foreign.
The park has suffered some fires:

-In 1985, a tourist started a fire that burned about 150 km2 of the park.

-In February 2005, an accidental fire started by a Czech backpacker, which lasted for about ten days, destroyed 155 km2

-In December 2011, a fire started by an Israeli backpacker burned about 176 km2 of the reserve.
]]> 2017-11-15 18:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207376646 Jorgondiz https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207383912 Location]]> 2017-11-15 19:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207383912 Jorgondiz https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207383953 Map of the park]]> 2017-11-15 19:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207383953 Jorgondiz https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207450004 Grey Lake

The Grey lake, also called Grey Lake, it's a water body with a glacial origin situated in the occidental part of Torres del Paine. In the state of Ultima Esperanza XII Region of Magallanes and the Chilean Antartic, in the macro region of Patagonia in Chile.


Grey Glacial
The gray glacial is a glacial located in Chile, in the occidental part of Parque nacional Torres Del Paine, the glacial has a blue colour ,because of the ice's absorption of red lighted wave, and the dispertion of lenght of blue lighted wave ,some parts of the glacial have a gray colour, because of the abration which occurs by the ice and the charge of rocky fragments wich hold in the bed of rock below the glacial, polishing that last, generating this higher quantity of flour of rock wich makes fusion water of the glacial acquire a gray tone.]]> 2017-11-15 21:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207450004 Jorgondiz https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207451056 2017-11-15 21:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207451056 Jorgondiz https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207451075 2017-11-15 21:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207451075 Jorgondiz https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207451324 2017-11-15 21:29:03 UTC https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207451324 Jorgondiz https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207452270 2017-11-15 21:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207452270 Cultural Value marcosbalmori https://padlet.com/eleblancom/o7xexor2all/wish/207453921 Torres del Paine it's considered national chilenean park and a wild protected area.
It's one of the eleven protected areas of the region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica (with fours national parks, three others national reserves and three national monuments). All together, form the protected wild areas that  cover a 51% of the surface of the region. (6.728.744 ha).
In a special edition of National Geographic, The Torres del Paine was chosen as the fifth mot beautiful place in the world. The park was selected as  the eighth wonder of the world in 2013, after it received more that 5 million votes in the contest realized by a Virtual Tourist site. 
Has been 3 big fire forest in the park, causes by irresponsable tourists.
The Torres del Paine it's a very  beautiful and known park.


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