CULTURAL RESOURCES
The story of the place started 5.000 years ago, when hunter's communities used to inhabit the region y lived by the native resources that offer the ambient.
In recent times, the “guaranties” occupied the territory-organizing village where they used to practice cultivations and to recollect many kinds of plants. The base of their alimentation, exchange and consumption was corn, pumpkins, cotton, “yerba mate”, tobacco and tapioca. They complemented that cultivation with fishing and hunting mammals, birds and insects. The millenary relation that the original people had with the natural environment had modified since spanish and creole people occupied the territory. Huge natural spaces suffer the effects of stockbreeding, extensive agriculture and native trees felling for buildings. As a result, forests and palm trees were replaced by cultivate surfaces, and wild fauna by domestic animals.

The current constructions that can be appreciated in the National Park belong to the last century. They show how men made the most of the environment and how they organized to live together: constructing places for unskilled labourers, who dedicated to livestock, and houses for owners and administrators.
Since the end of the Second World War, doctor Troels M. Pedersen -Niels Peter Pedersen's sun, owner of these lands- had travelled to Argentine to take charge of his countryside, interested in the flora of the place and with the objective of recovered the bad state of the lands. His action in favour of the natural environment culminated with the donation of the area for the creation of the National Park, making possible that nowadays we can enjoy this place and think about its history.

CONTACTS
Mburucuyá National Park
C.C. 1 (3.427)
Mburucuyá
Corrientes
Argentine Republic
Telephone number: (037) 82-498022
E-mail address: mburucuya@apn.gov.ar

Administración de Parques Nacionales
690, Santa Fe St.
(1059)
Buenos Aires
Argentine Republic
Telephone number: (011) 4311-6633/0303
E-mail address: informes@apn.gov.ar

NATURAL RESOURCES
Landscapes. Flora and fauna
The protected area has three natural regions: the “chaqueña”, the “espinal” and the “paranaense”. Forests, palm groves, grass and swamps compose the Oriental Chaco. The most characteristics species of these forests are two types of “quebrachos” –the red chaqueño ant the white one-, the “urunday” and the “vivaro”. In the low zones develops “algarrobo” forests, accompanies by “talas” and “caranday” palms.
The “paranaense” rainforests appears in little scrubland island (“mogotes”) way, with typical vegetable species like the “alecrín”, the “pindo” palm, the “tacuaruzú” cane, the "timbo" and the “laurel”.
“Xerofilos” forests, “yatay” palms, “gramineas” steppes and grass represent the “Espinal”.
Moreover, in the Park there are 150 bird's species that makes the area an attractive place for the ornithological activity. This is enclosed by a big variety of fauna, where a lot of “carpinchos”, “yacares”, “zorros”, “mulitas”, “guazunchos”, “gatos yaguarundí” and “monos carayá” can be appreciated. Many species are in danger of extinction, like the “aguara guazu”, the “lobito de rio” and the “ciervo de los pantanos”.sIn the Santa Lucia swamp had been detected a great variety of fishes like “dorado”, “surubi” and “vieja de agua”.

WALKS AND SERVICES
The area has a Visitors Centre and a Camp Section with toilets and drinking water. Near that area two paths starts their routes. One, called “Yatay”, ends in the Santa Lucia swamp, and the other, “Cheroga”, with many explanatory posters travels across different sectors, including little lakes and a part of the rainforest. In these routes can be observed different ambient like forests, palm groves and grass, where is common to watch the fauna movements.