CULTURAL RESOURCES
The protected area was inhabit, 9.000 years ago, by groups of hunters and collectors. The occupation of the place was periodic and alternated between the steppe and the forest because that was part of a planning resource's using.
One of the most important animals of the region was the guanaco. It was appreciate because of its meat, leather, bones, tendons and veins.
The original groups used to live in caves. Later opened sky awnings replaced them, but specific activities like prepared and dyeing leather were done rocky eaves. Theses places were also used for hunting and for work the rocks. In accordance with archaeological registers the protected area of this Park was abandoned in the 18 th century, probably because of the climate's inclemency of a “short ice age” registered by important studies developed in 1750.
PN Perito Moreno (Perito Moreno National Park) has a high scientific and cultural value, thanks to the phaleontological rests and biological elements that preserves. This Park has many evidence of this region's past, which began 9.700 years ago, and are the testimony that tehuelches ancestors left about their life, habits and beliefs.

NATURAL RESOURCES
Landscape, flora and fauna
The landscape was surrounded by many hills and mountains arranged from east to west and north to south that constitutes a great natural amphitheatre.
The Park has three delimited sectors: the steppe, represented by dense “coironales” and examples of “mata torcida”, a transition zone with vegetation composed by “ñire” and “lenga”, and the forest, constituted by “lengas” that localized mostly in seaside zones of Nansen and Azara Lakes.
The Park has an interesting fauna reserve. There are a lot of guanacos that move in groups. That largest predator is the puma and red and grey wolf. There are also the “choique”, “ñandu petiso”, “pilquin” or “chinchillon anaranjado”, a Santa Cruz restricted specie different from the rest of the “pilquines” of the Patagonia and the “esquivo huemul” that finds there a safety refuge. The local stag has a strong brown body; males have small bifurcate horns that are one metre height. In winter “huemules” descend from high slopes, finding refuges in forests and meals from the valleys.
Many small little lakes, feed by thaw water, constituted the habitat were aquatic birds stay, like flamingos, “hualas”, “cisne cuello negro”, “patos vapor” and great concentrations of “cauquenes”. “Condor andino”, “aguila mora” and “ñacurutu” –a big owl that makes its nests in the Park- integrated the local “avifauna” that lives in the Park.
Unlike many patagonic lakes, in Perito Moreno National Park waters there aren't exotics fishes, so there is only native “ictiofauna”.

WALKS AND SERVICES
The following are alternatives of walks through paths. In the area, the foresters give complete information about these route:
Monte Leon Climb: Starts in La Oriental Farm and takes 4 hours, providing a panoramic view and the chance to see condors flying.
Peninsula Belgrano Natural Path: Starts in Belgrano Lake isthmus and takes one or two hours, covering an steppe-forest transition zone.
Laguna del Mie: It is located 6 km far from the Burmeister, and the way travels across many little lakes inhabited by lots of birds.
Cerro del Mie Climb: It is recommended to do this visit on sunny days and be advised by foresters.

One or two days walks
To Burmeister Lake: Stormy waters and “lengas” forests.
To El Rincon: Can be the destiny or the beginning of the walk. Also visitors can see the traces of settlers in the doors of the mountain chains.
To Lago Volcan: This grey lake is close to the National Park's heart. Visitors can leave the car 3 km far from El Rincon and reach Lago Volcan coast after a 5 km walk.

Three or four days walk
To Puesto del Nueve and Lago Azara: From the end of the route in front of Cerro Mie, going round the east and south coast of Belgrano Lake, in 5 hours visitors get to an “ovejero” place that brings warm and can be the base to explore the surrounding area. The intense blue of Azara Lake and Belgrano Lake falls can be saw.

The national Park doesn't have an organized camping. Gobernador Gregores is the nearest city that has a gas station. However to visit the area is convenient to have extra fuel.
The foresters' detachment also can be visited; the Alero, situated near the Park Information Centre, has cave painting and 6.000 years archaeological rests.
The foresters' detachment also can be visited; the Alero, situated near the Park Information Centre, has cave painting and 6.000 years archaeological rests.

SUGGESTIONS
It is suggested:
-To register your visit in the Information Centre.
-To consult the forester about possible activities to do inside the area.
-To remember that it is not allowed to make fire and it is obligatory to use a heater.
-To avoid go to the Park with pets. In case they enter, they must stay tied.
-Remember that fishing is not allowed.
-Remember that it is prohibited to sailing in the area.