Fray Jorge National Park

Parque Nacional Fray Jorge, Coquimbo, Chile

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Native chilean forest located in the north of the country over the risks near the sea. You can find flora and fauna from the south of Chile dues to a micro climate produced only in the area that reproduces the humidity and temperature of the south. This Chilean Park, declared by UNESCO as a World Reserve to Biosfera, has an extraordinary natural phenomena with flora and fauna from southern Chile. A native forest valdivian type, located in a desertic costal area over the risks in the north of Chile near Coquimbo. The existence of this forest depends on the condensation of a costal mist, called camanchaca that creates a micro climate, as the rain in the area doesn´t goes over 113 mm. in a year. Canelos, olivillos, tepas and a great variety of ferns grow up 1.250 km far from their normal habitat, in a 400 hectars ground. regarding fauna different birds, owls, foxes and small animals can be seen through a walking path along the forest.