Los Alerces National Park is located within the Andes of Northern Patagonia and the property’s western boundary coincides with the Chilean border.

The property coincides with the formally gazetted Los Alerces National Park covering 188,379 ha and has a buffer zone of 207,313 ha comprising the contiguous Los Alerces National Reserve (71,443 ha) plus an additional area (135,870 ha) which forms a 10 km wide band around the property except where it borders Chile.

The landscape in this region is moulded by successive glaciations creating a scenically spectacular variety of geomorphic features such as moraines, glacial river and lake deposits, glacial cirques, chain-like lagoons, clear-water lakes, hanging valleys, sheepback rocks and U-shaped valleys.

Moreover, the Park is vital for the protection of some of the last portions of continuous Patagonian Forest in almost a pristine state and is the habitat for a number of endemic and threatened species of flora and fauna, including the longest-living population of Alerce trees (Fitzroya cupressoides), a conifer endemic to South America.

Inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List in 2017, the Los Alerces National Park retains a high degree of naturalness providing a profound visitor experience.

Source: Azerbaijan State News Agency