La Campana National Park is located in the Cordillera de la Costa, Quillota Province, in the Valparaíso Region of

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...

. La Campana National Park and the

Vizcachas Mountains The Vizcachas Mountains is a mountain range northwest of Santiago, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile. It is part of the Chilean Coast Ranges System. La Campana National Park Part of the Vizcachas Range was incorporated into a protected ar ...

lie northwest of

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...

. This national park covers approximately and is home to one of the last palm forests of '' Jubaea chilensis'' (Chilean Wine Palm), which prehistorically had a much wider distribution than at present.C. Michael Hogan, 2008 Another attraction is the

Cerro La Campana Cerro la Campana, the Bell mountain, is a mountain in La Campana National Park in central Chile. The Pacific and the mountain Aconcagua are visible from the summit on clear days. Due to the area's expanding human population, considerable def ...

, which lends its name to the park. In 1834

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended ...

climbed this mountain, during the

second voyage of HMS Beagle The second voyage of HMS ''Beagle'', from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS ''Beagle'', under captain Robert FitzRoy who had taken over command of the ship on its first voyage after the previous capt ...

. In 1984, the park, along with Lago Peñuelas National Reserve, was designated by

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as a

Biosphere Reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...

.UNESCO. 2007

Biology

The park is in the

Chilean Matorral The Chilean Matorral (NT1201) is a terrestrial ecoregion of central Chile, located on the west coast of South America. It is in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, part of the Neotropical realm. Matorral is typically charact ...

Ecoregion An ecoregion (ecological region) or ecozone (ecological zone) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of ...

. Chilean Wine Palm groves occur in the

Ocoa Valley The Ocoa Valley is a landform in central Chile located by the La Campana National Park. This valley is a locus where considerable archaeological recovery has taken place, yielding considerable finds of pre-European contact period. According to Dallm ...

. Other typical vegetation species occurring in the park include the Echinopsis chiloensis,

Puya chilensis ''Puya chilensis'' is a terrestrial bromeliad originating from the arid hillsides of Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the cl ...

Roble,

Boldo ''Peumus boldus'', the only species in the genus ''Peumus'', is commonly known as boldo (from the Mapuche name ''foḻo''). This tree of the family Monimiaceae is natively endemic to the central region of Chile, occurring from 33° to 40° sou ...

Litre The litre (international spelling) or liter (American English spelling) (SI symbols L and l, other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 0.001 cubic metre (m3 ...

, Peumo, Patagua,

Winter's Bark ''Drimys winteri'', the winter's bark or canelo, is a slender tree in the family Winteraceae, growing up to tall. It is native to the Magellanic and Valdivian temperate rain forests of Chile and Argentina, where it is a dominant tree in the coa ...

and Lingue. File:Sector Mina de cuarzo.jpg File:Matorral de Puya y Echinopsis chiloensis Parque Nacional La Campana.JPG, Echinopsis chiloensis &

habitat File:Sendero El Peumo.jpg

References

*C. Michael Hogan (2008
''Chilean Wine Palm: Jubaea chilensis'', GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
*UNESCO. 2007
''La Campana-Peñuelas Biosphere Reserve''

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CONAF: Parque Nacional La Campana
Protected areas established in 1967 Protected areas of Valparaíso Region National parks of Chile {{SouthAm-protected-area-stub

Biology

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