Llanos de Challe National Park, Vallenar is located in the Carrizal Bajo area, 40 km from the city of Huasco and 60 km from Vallenar, on the coast. The 45,708 hectares covered up by the Llanos de Challe National Park, Vallenar offers a haven for various types of coastal desert vegetation of the zone, it is therefore home to various kinds of flora and fauna.
Llanos de Challe National Park, Vallenar is mainly full of mountains, which originates a central plain and many canyons. They are widely filled up with diverse vegetation. These altogether form the Carrizal Bajo region, that crosses the Park from east to west. This park is one of the most attractive tourist attractions in Vallenar.
There are various features that bound the tourists to include this beautiful natural attraction in their schedule of sightseeing in Vallenar. The Garra de León one of the most beautiful and rare flowers in Chile can be traced in plenty in this park.The years that these desert flowers adorns Llanos de Challe National Park are really spectacular. The red and yellow ananucas, malvillas and farm lilies are wonderful indeed.
Llanos de Challe National Park, Vallenar also has a very attractive beach side composed by white, fine sands especially good for sport fishing at the shore. This will further beautify the overall Vallenar Tour.The borders of Llanos de Challe National Park, Vallenar consists of a wetland composed by a swamp and a lagoon, a place where can plenty of aquatic birds can be seen. The taguitas del norte (northern taguas), taguas de frente amarilla (yellow foreheaded taguas), some flamingos and black necked swans are some of them.
Llanos de Challe National Park is a place quite a bewatching spot for people to get involved with nature. This is a great venue for planning various excursions, camping, picnic, observation and photographs.
There are about 278 types of flora growing in Llanos de Challe National Park, Vallenar. The most notable ones are the desert scrubland varieties, such as the cacti Copiapoa Carrizalensis and Copiapoa Hyopogea. These are just two examples of the 16 varieties that grow here.
The fauna variety of Llanos de Challe National Park, Vallenar consists of about 70 species. Among them 56 types are birds, 9 mammals, 4 reptiles and a type of amphibian. Apart from these, there are few other species surviving here. They are the guanaco, the small fox and the culpeo (a Chilean fox), the Atacaman toad, guanicoe llama, the vultur griphus condor and the falcon.There is also a Guards’ station in the park and a campsite run by CONAF.
So pay a sojourn to this lovely destination and have a cherising memory of the Vallener Travel.
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