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Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park
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| Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park | |
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| IUCN Category II (National Park) | |
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| Location: | Coquimbo Region, Chile |
| Nearest city: | Ovalle |
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| Area: | 100 km² |
| Established: | 1941 |
| Governing body: | Corporación Nacional Forestal |
Bosque de Fray Jorge national park (Spanish Parque Nacional Bosque de Fray Jorge) lies in the Coquimbo Region in Chile. It is a UNESCO Biosphere reserve.
The national park is approximately 100 km directly south of La Serena on the Pacific Ocean, as well as approximately 30 km to the west of Ovalle. It lies close to the Atacama desert.
The park covers an area of 100 km². The national park is known for being one of the most northern Valdivian temperate rain forests. The coastal fog (Spanish: Camanchacas) hangs on the mountain-slopes and moistens subtropical vegetation and allows the forest survive despite of being surrounded of semiarid shrubs. The forest is a vestigial survival of the former glacial period.
Typical plants of the national park include:
- Peruvian pepper tree Schinus latifolius
- Epiphyte
- Azara celastrina
- Lithraea caustica
- Porlieria chilensis
- Olive trees (Aextoxicon punctatum )
- Sarmienta scandens
- Griselinia scandens
The park also includes a large number of smaller animals, as Degu, Chinchilla and foxes. Many different kinds of bird live in the forests, such as the Tinamou (Nothoprocta perdicaria ).
The Bosque de Fray Jorge national park was created in 1941 and is administered by the Chilean forest authority CONAF. UNESCO incorporated the national park as a biosphere reservation in 1977. Beside this national park, two further parks belong to park to this biosphere reservation, Talinay and Punta del Viento.
Translation from the Spanish and German Wikipedia sites (see interwiki links).
