Talampaya National Park

Talampaya National Park is located in the valley of the province of La Rioja, between two mountain ranges. The park became a national park in 1997, and in 2000 it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

There are many streams and rivers in the park, which makes this place a haven for many representatives of the animal world: guanaco, red fox, puma, Patagonian hare. Among the largest representatives of the bird world, you can distinguish the eagle, the Andean condor and the condor falcon, guanaco, Maru. The territory of the park is one of the important places where archaeological and paleontological excavations take place. In the dried up bed of the Talampaya River, numerous evidence has been found that dinosaurs lived here millions of years ago. Very popular are magnificent artifacts of rock painting.

Often, nature itself presents amazing sculptures of stone and sand, among which the composition known as the Lost City is very popular. Over the past ten years, fossils have been discovered that date back to the Triassic period, when dinosaurs first appeared. Another interesting find of this area is the remains of a fossil species of turtle that lived on our planet more than 210 million. When visiting the park by tourists, there is an information tour of the attractions of the park, during which you can see the numerous rarities of the world of archaeology.