This national park is located to the northeast of the province of Formosa , it is to 65 km of city of Engineer Juárez and to 574 km of the city of Formosa .

This reservation created in 1968 by means of the National Law No. 17.916, possesses a surface of 9.005 there is., it is located in the southeast of the province of Formosa , Dpto. Bermejo . To the north it is limited by the river Teuquito and to the south for the Red one or Teuco.

Administration of National Parks

To protect atmospheres and characteristic species of the Semi-arid Chaco or Western Chaco , as the Tatú Cart.

• From Engineer Juárez: 65 km
• From Formosa : 574 km .

Semi-arid Chaco or Western Chaco .

This Reservation, it was created to rescue from the forest sobreexplotación and cattleman to a portion of natural atmospheres. Their small surface hardly reaches to represent the enormous diversity and complexity of the bioma western chaqueño.

This protection allowed, however, the gradual recovery of the exploited vegetable communities and of species like the Tatú Cart and the Bear Anthill. For their particular geographical location, between two important rivers, the Teuquito for the north and the imposing Teuco or Red for the south, we will find contrasts paisajísticos that we will be surprised for their beauty.

The periodic floods provide the nutrients and the necessary silts for the subsistence of the Forests in Gallery and at the same time, they model the landscape, leaving to their step an infinity of lengthened lagoons that they offer refuge to an enormous variety of birds and aquatic plants, not very frequent in these arid regions.

The quantity of carried silts forms, also, wide plane extensions or beaches in the beds that you/they abandon the waters during the bajantes. It is there where settles another vegetation that, gradually and along the years, becomes diverse vegetable communities with grasses, trees and characteristic bushes of this landscape type.

The scarce rains concentrate on summer, determining a lingering period of drought, next to extremely high temperatures, this forces, as much to the animals as to the vegetales,a to develop strategies adaptativas that allow them to survive under these extreme conditions. For it many of the vegetables possess leaves of small surface, thorns, organs of reservation undergrounds, among other adaptations; most of the terrestrial fauna takes refuge in caves and it is of twilight habits.

They characterize to this semi-arid region the forests that with justice the Flora faithfuler exponents are considered Argentina , since the trees of the Great Chaco, without reaching the big heights of their wild relatives, cause deep impression for their robustness and stateliness, acquired under adverse climatic conditions.

With the aspect of a dry forest, of medium height and quite open, the main atmosphere of the Reservation is characterized by the presence of the Quebracho Colorado Santiagueño and of the Quebracho Blanco, species that end up acquiring bigger heights to the 20 meters , standing out of the arboreal canopy and dominating on the rest of the vegetation. They accompany them the Sacred Stick, Mistol, Stick Cruz, Yuchán or Drunk Stick of Yellow Flower, the Itín or Stick Mataco, as likewise cactáceas of great behavior as the Ucle and the Cardón.

Among the species that conform the level arbustivo of the forest we find the Duraznillo, Scribble, Pruning, Sacha Watermelon, Pitch, the Quimil, an enormous cactus of arboreal behavior, among many others. The floor is frequently covered with dense communities of Chaguar, calls locally "Chaguarales" that are impenetrable as much for the man as for some animals.

In the wide subjected coastal sectors to periodic floods and overflow of the Red river , a varied range of vegetable communities is conjugated. Dense groves of Stupid Stick are observed or I Plane of River, of Creole Sallow, of Tusca and heaths of Suncho.

On the closed vegetation of the islands they are beautiful copies of Locust Blanco, Chañar, Guaraniná and Vinal. On the albardones of the Teuquito, the Forest is developed in Gallery, where they vegetate the Stick Rushes, the Moor, the Slack Stick, the Zapallo Caspi and the Guayacán. In the loamy floors and of depressed relief forests of Sacred Stick are located, giving place to one of the most characteristic vegetable formations in the Dry Chaco: the Palosantal. This species possesses a valuable wood of great quality that has been very looked for from viceregal times. This has motivated a tenacious persecution that has put in danger their natural populations that have diminished in alarming form. Of not taking the necessary protection measures in the whole area of their distribution, it should not miss us that the Sacred Stick is shortly in danger of disappearing.

Here we will find to the typical fauna of the semi-arid atmospheres of the Western Chaco . The Tatú Cart or Tatú-Guazú, symbol of the Reservation and species in extinction danger, meet with certain frequency, being one of the few protected areas that it aids him in the country.

Also the Bear Big Anthill, I Dare Flag or Yurumí that you go committed their survival in all their distribution area, it can be observed feeding of the termiteros and anthills that are plentiful in the area. Since atmospheres of the fluvial and aquatic type exist, next to the characteristic of the most arid areas, we will find species representatives of both coexisting in the Reservation. Species like the Vizcacha, the Weeping Piche, the Quirquincho and the Gualacate or Hairy, they escape from the heat and of the drying that you/they produce the high temperatures taking refuge in their caves.

The Rabbit of Stick, the Gray Fox, the Zorrino, the Brown Corzuela and the Pecaríes, that of Necklace and the Labiado, they remain during the noon to the shade of the vegetation, to hardly put on in activity low the sun.

In the riversides of the Teuquito and the Red one is possible to find the prints of the biggest herbivore in the region: the Elk, Tapir or Great Beast, next to those of Coipo or False Otter, those of Mayuato, it will Dilute popé or Osito South American Washer, those of Carpincho, and inclusive of Yacarés, among many others. Associated to the scarce aquatic atmospheres we will observe an attractive diversity of birds, among those that stand out the Garzas, the Jabirú, the Biguáes, Chajáes, Rosy Spatulas, Ducks of several species, etc. The mounts are refuge of other winged species, as the riotous Charata, of having coveted meat; the Chuñas, as that of Black Paws and that of Red Paws; the Parrots, as the Talker and the Calancate, besides a multitude of small birds. The ophidian ones are also present, and the feared Yarará represents them, of murderous poison, the inoffensive Boa of the Vizacheras or Lampalagua that it arrives to the three meters of longitude, and a great variety of snakes.

It suits, once arrived to the Reservation, to be advised with the Guardaparques, to end that to receive their recommendations on those traveled enabled according to the time of the year.

Avoid to visit the area in summer, the heat becomes unbearable for the one that is not accustomed to that torrid climate. Don't get lost the vision of the banks and reddish ravines of the Red one and of their brown powerful waters. Travel the lagoons, where will see aquatic birds and a beautiful landscape that it contrasts, given their intense green, with the dry environment and of tones ochers.