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Llancanelo Lagoon
Llancanelo Lagoon is a wetland with an area of 650 km located in the Malargue Department in the south of Mendoza Province, Argentina, 75 km from the city of Malargue, at 1,280 m above mean sea level, within the arid region near the Andes in the limit between the regions of Cuyo and Patagonia.
Llancanelo Lagoon is a provincial nature reserve. It hosts a variety of bird species, including flamingos, black-necked swans, herons and ducks. The lagoon is also a Ramsar Convention site (RS 759) since 8 November 1995.
References
Laguna de Llancanelo Information sheet on Ramsar Wetlands.
Laguna de Llancanelo at PatrimonioNatural.com.
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