NATURAL RESOURCES
Flora
The Reserve conserves one of the last wild argentine populations of “pino parana”. This typical conifer is a 30 metres height tree. This specimen comes from “pehuen” family, which is the patagonian “araucaria”. Its seeds are edible and the local population eat them. The “pino parana” composed there a particular rainforest. They are also common “yerba mate”, “laurel Negro” and “guatambu blanco”.
San Antonio Reserve, next to Cruce Caballero and De La Araucaria provincial parks, protects the last bastions of theses forests, which were reduced from 210.000 hectares in 1960 to 1.000 hectares nowadays.
Fauna
There are many specimens associated with “pino parana”. The fauna is also composed by “coludito de los pinos” –that covers the foliage looking for little invertebrates- and “loro vinoso” –internationally catalogued in danger of extinction-. The last one frequents the place in autumn to feed on “piñones”.
Other birds that live in argentine pinewoods are “atila castaño” and “bailarin castaño”.
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