FRAY JORGE NATIONAL PARK


Meaning of FRAY JORGE NATIONAL PARK in English

National park, north-central Chile.

Established in 1941 and covering 39 sq mi (100 sq km), it preserves a pocket of subtropical forest in a semiarid region. Botanists conjecture that this unusual situation exists because the relatively warm discharge of a nearby river into the cold Pacific Ocean creates an almost continuous fog, providing moisture for the forest.

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