Laguna Arcoiris - Conguillio National Park - Fotografía de stock

Recently National Geographic nominated Conguillío National Park among the 10 most beautiful forests on the planet. The BBC called this National Park one of the last refuges in the world to preserve the landscape where the dinosaurs lived. In this place part of the documentary "Walking with Dinosaurs" was filmed, and in 1980 it was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. How many parchments for a park that attracts thousands of visitors all year round and that can easily be located among the most beautiful in Chile, being a must in Autumn when its forests change color offering an unparalleled spectacle.  The park is located in the La Araucanía Region, 148 km northeast of Temuco, in Chile. It has an area of ​​60,832 ha initially formed by two different parks (PN, Conguillío and PN, Los Uguas) being united and forming the current park. Conguillío comes from "Ko-nqilliu" which in the Mapuche language means "pine nuts in the water" or "between pine nuts". The beauty of the park is due to its lakes and lagoons, the Llaima volcano (3.150mts), one of the most active in South America, its native vegetation, highlighting the araucarias, the ñirres, the coihues, lengas, holy sticks, raulíes, among others, which together with the varied plants and flowers make up one of the most visited parks in Chile, attracting the attention of foreign tourists. One of the sectors that most attracts tourists who like trekking is the climb to the Sierra Nevada, the park offers a total of 14 trails of varying difficulty for lovers of hiking, cabins and camping. The park is open all year except for the Captren Sector closed in winter by snowfall. In 2009, if you start a project to create a Geopark in the Araucanía devised by CORFO, which would be the first in Chile and would bring a new idea of ​​tourism to the country and the region, in this way in 2010 the planning begins. it would integrate the Andean zone of the Araucanía covering from the Tolhuaca volcano on the north to the Nevados de S