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GEOGRAPHIC
ASPECTS
Valdés peninsula
Declared
a area of "Natural Patrimony of the Humanity",
the Valdes Peninsula - Patagonia have in its coasts
an important biodiversity of fauna and flora, exclusive
of this zone, that show to characteristics special
distinct environments in accordance with, as of
estepe patagônica and the marine way.
The
Valdés Peninsula is located the northwest
of the Province of Chubut, Argentina, in the edges
of the Atlantic Ocean. It approximately possesss
an area of 360 a thousand hectares and if it joins
to the continent for the Isthmus Carlos Ameghino
(extension of 35km). To the north and the south
its coasts are bathed by waters of the gulfs San
Jose and Novo, respectively. The east is bathed
by the water of the Atlantic Ocean. The dominant
landscape corresponds to meseta patagônica,
with soft or abrupt falls in direction to the sea.
Three great internal depressions exist, that are
conformed by the three great salt mines of the region.
In its coasts, cliffs if alternate with extensive
beaches of sand, rolled pebble or platforms of sea
erosion. The total covered one of the circuit of
visitation of the Valdés Peninsula is of
420km.
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| Cold
waters of the Atlantic in the Patagônia,
tide low - photo of Vilmar Molon |
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| One
would loberia close to Puerto Pyramids - photo
of Vilmar Molon |
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| Meseta
and falésias with the vegetation of estepe
in the maritime coast of the Patagônia
- photo of Vilmar Molon |
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rank of entrance in the Valdés Peninsula
is located the 40 km of Puerto Madryn. From
there, the 27 distances are of km for the Island
of Birds and 58 km for Puerto Pyramids. Of Puerto
Pyramids – that it will be our base in
the Valdés Peninsula -, for land roads
they are 79 km for the Thin Punta, 75km for
the Caleta Valdés, 280 km for the pinguineira
of the Punta Tumble and 83 km for the Punta
North.
Source: Guía Total
Madryn 2003/2004 - Valdés Peninsula.
Ediciones Patrian.
PUERTO PIRAMIDES
Puerto Pyramids is a located
tourist village in the Valdés Peninsula,
to one hour of automobile of Puerto Madryn
(97kms). Its extensive beaches of and soft
declivities are protected by scarps that if
resemble the pyramids. The village if extends
to the long one of the beach of Bahia of Pyramids,
of where if it can appreciate impressive entardeceres
and very shining nocturnal skies, repletos
of stars.
In the environs of the village it is the colony
of marine wolves of one for the one of Punta
Pyramid. Beyond the marine wolves, the fauna
of the place is rich in gulls, cormorões
and other birds, as the medium brown ostreiro
and the black. This is also an area with important
paleontological outcrops. Located 5km of Puerto
Pyramids, it allows to sight beyond distinct
species of sea and terrestrial fauna, also
the frank whale, that is in the region between
June the December.
Puerto Piramides is a small village, but it
makes use of a series of services as warehouses,
bars, restaurants, access to the InterNet,
firemen and hospital for emergencies.
SALT MINES
Distant approximately 30km
of Puerto Pyramids is the salt mines Great,
Chica and Gran Salitral. This last one has
approximately 35km squared of extension and
is located between 4 and 42 meters below of
the level of the sea. Due to its composition
physicist-chemistry and to the incidence of
the solar light, they present a coloration
in pink tones, depending on the hour and the
cloudiness.
ASPECTS OF THE FAUNA IN PENINSULA
VALDÉS
Guanaco - relative of the
camel, lhamas and alpacas. It is of diurne
habits. The groups are formed by a male, leader,
and of 10 the 12 females. Until about 8 a
thousand years behind, it was resource of
subsistence for the aboriginals of the region.
Mara
- it is a rodent of great transport, having
almost the double of the size of an adult
européia hare. It can weigh up to eight
kilos. Still that he has the popular name
of patagônica hare is, in the truth,
a distant relative of the hares.
Martineta
- bird that remembers a hen of Angola. When
it is in reproductive season, it is seen in
groups of three individuals, a female and
two males.
Gray
fox - it is of solitary habits e, in
general, nocturnal. It remembers to ours graxaim.
It has for custom to occult food leftovers between
the vegetation.
Choique -
relative of emas and ñandus. The females
put eggs and abandon the territory leaving
the hatch (between 10 and 60 eggs) to the
cares of the male. They are very sociable
between itself.
Orcas - they
are pertaining mammals to the order of the
cetáceos. Differently of the whales,
they possess teeth. In the Valdés Peninsula,
they are you observed between the months of
February and April, and October the November,
in the Punta North, Caleta Valdés and
in the Gulf San Jose. Orcas of the Patagônia
– is specialists; e probably the only
ones that they carry through – in the
propositada invasion of the beach (varamento),
in food search. Differently of the biggest
part of the dolphins, orcas has a very robust
body. The great males can more than measure
nine meters and regret about eight tons. Its
dorsal wing can measure up to two meters of
height. The females can measure up to six
meters and regret more than five tons. They
have an average longevity of 60 years, in
freedom. In captivity, they live between five
and ten years.
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Dark
dolphin - a maximum length of two meters
has and weighs around of 90 kilos. It has the
short and rounded off snout. The sexos possess
a dorsal wing in both. The births happen in
the summer. Usually they are grouped between
six and fifteen animals, being able, however,
to congregate themselves gem rupos of up to
400 individuals when they appear shoals of fish
of anchovies. They possess teeth and if they
detach for its social behavior, if communicating
for the emission of sounds in high frequencies.
Penguin of Magalhães
- it is a sea bird. Excellent swimmer,
does not possess, however, capacity to fly.
In the September month the male penguins arrive.
They locate its nest (the same q that had
abandoned in the previous year). Two weeks
later arrive the females. The acasalamentos
also recover, between the same males and females
of previous seasons. The contamination of
the sea for oil is one of the threats more
serious than it has the penguin. Another activity
that can affect its cycle of life is the sobrepesca,
reducing the food availability. The penguins
of Magalhães have between 50 and 60
cm of height and four the five kilos of weight.
The males are slightly bigger who the females.
Both the sexos have the same coloration, the
adults with the black coasts and the white
chest, with a double black band. The eggs
are incubados during 40 days, for the male
and the female. The younglings weigh about
80g, to the rising and are covered by an gray
penagem, which move during the February month.
The adults change its plumage when finishing
the period of reproduction, enter the months
of March and April.
Marine elephants
- they call attention for its form and great
male tamanho.Os possess prosbosis or inflatable,
characteristic whirlwind that it approaches
them to the terrestrial elephants and that
them was valid the popular name. The males
reach sizes of up to five meters of length
and four tons of weight, while the females
have lengths of up to three meters and a ton
of weight. One multiplies enters August and
March, in the Peninsula Valdés, a population
of about 40 a thousand individuals. They are
poligâmicos and they form great haréns.
They are great divers, I underneath descend
until depths of 1.500 meters, remaining d’água
for up to two hours.
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