Colonia Benítez Nature Reserve
Tour a reserve that is small in size but big in variety of natural environments.
Are you in for admiring natural diversity? Walk around Colonia Benitez Nature Reserve and discover its ecosystems. Swamps with aquatic vegetation. A corridor of jungles with trees such as pacara earpod trees, pink trumpet trees and ibirá-pitá. A forest in Chaco where you will find spiny vegetation and wooden trees as the white and red quebracho, urunday and the algarrobo blanco [white carob]. Breathe pure air in this protected area.
Let yourself get carried away by the fauna of this reserve. Birds like marsh seedeaters and plush-crested jays, parrots and the Chaco chachalaca, great egrets and toucans, crows and harriers. Mammals like capybaras and gray brockets, crab-eating foxes and howler monkeys, crab-eating racoons and neotropical otters. Feel part of a land where native agricultural communities have lived since ancient times. Meet with its descendants and come close to its culture. Enjoy it all in the province of Chaco.
Geographic location: Province of Chaco, Litoral region of Argentina.
How to get there: Via Ruta Nacional 11, 25 km north of the city of Resistencia.
Area: 8 hectares.
Climate: Humid-subtropical, with dry season.
Recommended length of stay: 1 to 2 days.
Recommended clothing and gear: Insect repellent and safe drinking water.
Tips: It is necessary to coordinate the visit with the park ranger beforehand.