Английская Википедия:Huechulafquen Lake
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox body of water Huechulafquen Lake (Шаблон:IPA-es) is a lake in Neuquén Province, Patagonian Argentina. This glacial lake is located in the Andean mountains in Lanín National Park some 25 kilometres from Junín de los Andes and 60 kilometres from San Martín de los Andes. It is one of Argentina's largest Andean lakes and is fed by glaciers and meltwater streams and lakes.
Description
The lake's name derives from the Mapuche language and means long lake, an apt name for this Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide lake, which has a surface area of Шаблон:Convert or 19,300 acres. Lakes Paimún and Epulafquén are connected to the main body of the lake by short, narrow, shallow straits, but are usually considered separate lakes. These two smaller lakes would add about Шаблон:Convert to the size of Huechulafquen Lake if the three were considered a single lake. The Chimehuin River flows south-eastward out of the lake with its ultimate destination the Atlantic Ocean. Junin de los Andes is the nearest city.[1]
Lake Paimún, Шаблон:Convert long, is the northern arm of Huechulafquen Lake. Lanin volcano at Шаблон:Convert, the highest mountain in the region, looms over its northern shore. Lake Paimun is fed by glaciers originating on Lanin volcano and by small streams that originate at the border with Chile.
Lake Epulafquén, Шаблон:Convert long, is the southern arm of the lake. A complex of volcanoes, the Huanquihue Group, Шаблон:Convert in elevation, rise above its southern shore.[2] About 1800 CE, a lava flow from one of the volcanic cones reached the southern shore of the lake causing a rocky, distorted delta.[3] A short, turbulent stream brings the waters of two additional lakes, Lake Curruhué, Шаблон:Convert long, and Green Lake, Шаблон:Convert long, into Lake Epulafquén. Another short stream feeds into Lake Epulafquén from Lake Carilafquén, Шаблон:Convert long. Hot springs and thermal baths are located near the shores of this lake.[4]
Huechulafquen runs in an east-west direction, with marked climatic changes along its shores as annual precipitation decreases from about Шаблон:Convert in the higher mountains overlooking the lake to about Шаблон:Convert at the eastern end of the lake. Most of the precipitation falls in the southern hemisphere winter.[5] Шаблон:Wide image
Tourism
Lake Huechulafquen is a popular tourist destination for camping, hiking, boating, climbing Lanin volcano, and fishing for rainbow and brown trout, species introduced to Argentine in the early 1900s. A road runs along the north shore of the lake, passing through several communities of the Mapuche people, who live within the boundaries of Lanin National Park.[6] Another road touches along the southern shoreline of Lake Epulaufquén providing access to the volcanic flows there.[7] This road continues westward, crossing into Chile at the Carirriñe Pass, elevation Шаблон:Convert.[8]
References
- ↑ Google Earth; "Lake:Huechulaufquen", https://web.archive.org/web/20110902224656/http://www.hidricosargentina.gov.ar/EIndice-Huechulaufquen.html, accessed 31 Mar 2018.
- ↑ Google Earth
- ↑ "Global Volcanism Program Huanquihue Group", Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=357123, accessed 4 Apr 2018
- ↑ Google Earth
- ↑ "Lanin National Park," Parkswatch, http://www.parkswatch.org/parkprofiles/pdf/linp_spa.pdf http://www.parkswatch.org/parkprofiles/pdf/linp_spa.pdf, accessed 5 Apr 2018
- ↑ "InterPatagonia," https://www.interpatagonia.com/junindelosandes/lakes-huechulafquen-paimun-lanin-volcano.html, accessed 5 Apr 2018
- ↑ Google Earth
- ↑ "Carirriñe Pass," http://www.dangerousroads.org/south-america/chile/4317-paso-carirri%C3%B1e.html, accessed 5 Apr 2018
