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  2. Bosques Petrificados de Jaramillo National Park - Wikipedia

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    The Jaramillo Petrified Forest National Park is a protected area of petrified forest located in the Deseado Department, in the northeast of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Formerly part of the site was a natural monument, established in 1954 and known as the Petrified Forest Natural Monument , covering about 13,700 hectares (34,000 acres).

  3. Petrified Forest (Sarmiento) - Wikipedia

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    The Petrified Forest, 30 km (19 mi) south of Sarmiento, Argentina, is a provincial natural monument. It a forest from the Cenozoic era, the petrified wood is of primitive conifers and palm trees. [ 1 ]

  4. Petrified wood - Wikipedia

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    Argentina – the Sarmiento Petrified Forest and Jaramillo Petrified Forest in Santa Cruz Province in the Argentine Patagonia have many trees that measure more than 3 m (9.8 ft) in diameter and 30 m (98 ft) long. [38] Brazil: in the geopark of Paleorrota, there is a vast area with petrified trees. [39] In the Heritage forest

  5. List of national parks of Argentina - Wikipedia

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    The National Parks of Argentina make up a network of 35 national parks in Argentina. The parks cover a very varied set of terrains and biotopes , from Baritú National Park on the northern border with Bolivia to Tierra del Fuego National Park in the far south of the continent.

  6. Araucaria mirabilis - Wikipedia

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    Araucaria mirabilis is an extinct species of coniferous tree from Patagonia, Argentina.It belongs to the genus Araucaria.. A. mirabilis are known from large amounts of very well preserved silicified wood and cones from the Cerro Cuadrado Petrified Forest, including tree trunks that reached 100 m (330 ft) in height in life.

  7. Patagonian Desert - Wikipedia

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    It is located primarily in Argentina and is bounded by the Andes, to its west, and the Atlantic Ocean to its east, in the region of Patagonia, southern Argentina and areas of Chile. To the north the desert grades into the Cuyo Region and the Monte .

  8. Bosque Andino Patagónico - Wikipedia

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    Bosque Andino Patagónico, also known as Patagonian Andean forest, [1] [2] is a type of temperate to cold forest located in western Patagonia in Argentina and also in southern Chile, at the southern end of South America.

  9. Araucaria araucana - Wikipedia

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    Araucaria araucana, commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, monkey tail tree, piñonero, pewen or Argentinian pine, is an evergreen tree growing to a trunk diameter of 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) and a height of 30–40 m (98–131 ft). It is native to central and southern Chile and western Argentina. [3]