Laguna Blanca
The big lagoon.
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Río Pilcomayo National Park protects some fifty-two thousand hectares of «humid Chaco» in northeastern Formosa province, five kilometres from the town of Laguna Blanca near the Paraguayan border. Created in 1951, it is on the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance: palm savanna, woods, marshes and lagoons. Its largest body of water is Laguna Blanca, the «White Lagoon», of seven hundred hectares, home to two threatened species of caiman, the black and the broad-snouted «overo». In the tall grasslands live maned wolves, rheas and seriemas, and on the water storks, herons, roseate spoonbills and ducks, with purple water hyacinth covering the surface. The Laguna Blanca area is easy to reach, with a jetty, walkways near the water and a campsite. Winter suits a visit best; summer is hot and humid.
The big lagoon.
Rheas and wolves.
Roseate spoonbills.
Near the town of Laguna Blanca, northeastern Formosa province
At Laguna Blanca, the park's largest lagoon, near the town of Laguna Blanca.