Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks
World Heritage Site
- Official name
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Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks |
UNESCO
- Country
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Argentina |
Map
- Continent
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South America
- Location
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Provinces of San Juan and La Rioja
-30.0000° Lat, -68.0000° Lon |
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- Code
- 966
- Time Zone
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America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires (-03, -0300)
- Current Time
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- Category
- Natural
- Description
- Inscribed 2000. These two contiguous parks, extending over 275,300 ha in the desert region on the western border of the Sierra Pampeanas of central Argentina, contain the most complete continental fossil record known from the Triassic Period (245-208 million years ago). Six geological formations in the parks contain fossils of a wide range of ancestors of mammals, dinosaurs and plants revealing the evolution of vertebrates and the nature of palaeo-environments in the Triassic Period.
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