Situated in the province of Chaco, the Chaco National Park is national park of Argentina. Covering an area of 150 km² this park was built in 1954 to preserve a specimen of the Eastern Chaco which comprised warm lowlands with a yearly rainfall record of 750 to 1300mm in the summer. This national park of Argentina is most frequented by visitors.

• How to get there:

You have to take from Resistencia route 16 as long as the turn off northwards or route 9 to Colonia Elisa, some 28 km away. From here it is some 15 km to Capitan Solari some 6 km from the park. You can also avail the daily bus service to Solari.

• Attractions for visitors

Chaco National Park has a variety of flora and fauna where the visitors can really have lots of fun. Inside the park one can get to see the various types of habitat such as Chaco woods, palm-dotted savannahs and marshes and lagoons. The woods reach upto a height of 15m of The Park houses various kinds of scrubland, sanvana, swamps and little lakes. For the the red quebracho, the white quebracho, the algarrobo, and the lapacho the scrubland is the living ground while the animal world mainly consists of huge predators like the pumas. The yacares and capibaras can be found in the lakes. Armadillos, tapirs, viscachas, caraya monkeys and birds are also found. The white woodpecker and the savannah hawk are a real beauty of this park. But you won't stop wondering at the water birds like the Panza de cabra, Yacare and Carpincho if you take a visit to the lakes. In the summer the wet places are occupied by different frog and toads which in mad chorus send an invitation to their female patners.The park is guarded area for the quebracho trees. The wood of this tree being strong has been exploited over the century.

So don't forget to visit this amazing national park of Argentina. worldtravel4indians.com offers online information about Chaco National Park .