Colonia Benítez Nature Reserve

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.