Villa Traful is a

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of the

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Neuquén Neuquén (; arn, Nehuenken) is the capital city of the Argentine province of Neuquén and of the Confluencia Department, located in the east of the province. It occupies a strip of land west of the confluence of the Limay and Neuquén river ...

located at the shore of the

Traful Lake Traful Lake is a lake in the Los Lagos Department of the Argentine province of Neuquén with an area of 76 km². The lake is the starting point of the Traful River that empties into the Nahuel Huapi Lake. It is contained inside Nahuel Huapi ...

, at 720 metres

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. It is located inside the

Nahuel Huapi National Park Nahuel Huapi National Park () is the oldest national park in Argentina, established in 1934. It surrounds Nahuel Huapi Lake in the foothills of the Patagonian Andes. The largest of the national parks in the region, it has an area of , or nearly ...

on the ''

Road of the Seven lakes The Road of the Seven Lakes () is the popular name given to the scenic portion of National_Route_40_(Argentina), national route 40 between the towns of San Martín de los Andes and Villa La Angostura in the Neuquén Province, in Patagonia Argentin ...

'', 60 km from

Villa La Angostura Villa La Angostura (Spanish for ''Town of the Narrowing'') is a town located in the Los Lagos Department in the south of the Argentine province of Neuquén, on the northwest shore of the Nahuel Huapi Lake. Nestled in the northern part of the Nahu ...

and 100 km from

Bariloche San Carlos de Bariloche, usually known as Bariloche (), is a city in the province of Río Negro, Argentina, situated in the foothills of the Andes on the southern shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake. It is located within the Nahuel Huapi National Park. ...

, at . The main access is Provincial Route 65. The town was founded in 1936 by the Argentine National Park Administration (DPN). It's composed of about 80 houses, built in traditional Alpine- Andine architecture that combines wood with stone, and its population is over 400 inhabitants. The most important part of the economy is based on

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, especially

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, trekking, horseback riding and mountaineering. Since Villa Traful is inside a

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, fishing and mountaineering are allowed only with authorisation. Tourism is concentrated generally in summer and spring, while in winter there are almost no tourist.

Sources

The Magic of living in the Nature
- MercoTour.com (Spanish)
Pictures
at VillaTraful.com
Villa Traful
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