Administración de Parques Nacionales

The protected area has 150.000 hectares and 37.000 of them are under National Park category. The rest maintains as Federal Reserve.

GENERAL INFORMATION OF THE AREA
It is situated in the west side of Cordoba, in Punilla, Santa Maria and San Alberto departments, covering a part of Achala de la Pampa –between the 1.900 and 2.300 metres height- and nearby gullies over the central Sierras Grandes de Cordoba chain.
PN Quebrada del Condorito (Quebrada del Condorito National Park) was created in 1996, when authorities started the formal steps to acquire the lands and the Park instrumentation.
The protected area has 150.000 hectares and 37.000 of them are under National Park category. The rest maintains as Federal Reserve.
The National Park is situated inside the “Serrano” District of the Chaco Natural Unit. However, as other “extra-andinas” mountains formations of the west and centre of the country, Sierras de Cordoba has a kind of nature similar to the Cordillera de los Andes' vegetation.
PN Quebrada del Condorito (Quebrada del Condorito National Park) belongs to “chaco seco” eco-region, in its “chaco serrano” district. A large plain with soft slope to the east composed this eco-region.The weather is warm and subtropical, with absolute high temperatures. The rains are in summer y varies between 500 and 700 mm.

Quebrada del Condorito that gives the name to the protected area is a deep ravine. From its high edges visitors can observe the andino condors at the same level. This specie, typical of the Mountain chain, has a population that in the last decade shows an important declination because of its slaughter.

REFERENCE MAP
Protected area location


	CULTURAL RESOURCES Hunters-collectors occupied Pampa de Achala in prehistorically times. Rests of artefacts that were found in the rocky eaves, where they used to live, represent their many activities. Many investigations that were done in the area detected the presence of projectile's tips and mortar caved in archaeological places' rocks. Probably they were places where people hunted because of the concurrence and disponibility of guanacos and their young's. During conqueror period the area was part of a region inhabited by the comechingones (Altas Sierras, Valles de Punilla and Calamuchita), who considered Pampa de Achala a refuge against the spanish subjugation. In the ends of 19 th century many groups of colonizing population consolidated there because of the nearness of the first Franciscan's chapel. Nowadays it is recognized a traditional way of life for Pampa de Achala inhabitants, called “achalenses”. This population is represented by small owners, “puesteros” and unskilled labourer, whose families' lives in disperse houses, because of the economic use of the land. They are isolated of techno-culture and market economy, developing activities like sheep and cattle breed, market and farmyard birds. The handmade products are a very important activities for their subsistence, specially leather works and weaving. All this characteristics join a value, beliefs and typical feature system.

	ACCESS Visitors can get to the area by Provincial Route Nº 34 (Ruta de las Altas Cumbres), between Villa Carlos Paz and Mina Clavero. The Park is in the middle of the way. Through the Paraje La Pampilla, over Ruta de las Altas Cumbres, people reach the northeast of the Park. There starts a very good signposting path that has 22 km extension and takes to the north balcony of the Quebrada del Condorito in Km Nº 9.

NATURAL RESOURCES
Landscapes, flora and fauna
The National Park is situated inside the “Serrano” District of the Chaco Natural Unit. However, as other “extra-andinas” mountains formations of the west and centre of the country, Sierras de Cordoba has a kind of nature similar to the Cordillera de los Andes' vegetation.
The predominant vegetation in Pampa de Achala is high grass with isolated “tabaquillo” forests, similar to the typical of the northwest of Argentina.
One of the most detachable features of the area is the presence of species from the high top of these hills. For example, the fauna is composed by two amphibious and two typical reptiles of the region.
The red wolf presents a typical breed of these hills. Between birds there many exclusive species of the place.
The gully that gives the name to the Park is a deep “cañadon”. From its high edges visitors can observe the “condors andinos” at the same level. This specie, typical of the Mountain chain, has a population that in the last decade shows an important declination because of its slaughter.

WALKS AND SERVICES
The Park was created a few time ago, so that it still doesn't have services for visitors. If you plan to visit the area it is recommended to ask for information at the maintenance of Quebrada del Condorito National Park.

CONTACTS
Quebrada del Condorito National Park
33, Sabattini St.
(5152) Villa Carlos Paz
Cordoba, Argentina
Telephone number: (035) 41-433371
E-mail address: quebradadelcondorito@apn.gov.ar

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

The protected area has 150.000 hectares and 37.000 of them are under National Park category. The rest maintains as Federal Reserve.
The National Park is situated inside the “Serrano” District of the Chaco Natural Unit. However, as other “extra-andinas” mountains formations of the west and centre of the country, Sierras de Cordoba has a kind of nature similar to the Cordillera de los Andes' vegetation.