Asetur Misiones - Misiones - Zoogeographic Considerations

The most famous species are: "Mamíferos-yaguareté" (a kind of mammal), "Gato onza" (a kind of cat), and "Puma"(american panther),

In the middle of the forest, tourists can see the "Mono o caí de cebus", "Aloustta and Aotus" (a kind of monkey), the Carayá monkey or the howler monkey (these monkeys have the attraction of many tourists).

There also appears the "coatí", the "Osito labrador or Aguará-pope" (a kind of bear), the Yurumú or Oso Hormiguero" (ant bear), the "Oso Melero or Kaguaré" (another kind of bear), the "Tapir, Anta or Mborí" (a kind of mammal), the "Taleto", the "Pecari", the "Venado" (deer), "Ardilla" (squirrel), "Lobito de río" (a kind of wolf which appears in rivers), etc.

Among the reptiles there appears: the "Yacaré or Caimán" 8 allegator or cayman), the "Lagartos de Tupinambis" (a kind of alligator), the "Lagartijas" (wall lizards), the "Vívora cascabel" (a kind of snake), the "Yaguará or Vívora de la cruz" (another kind of snake), etc.

Yacaré

Many kinds of birds appear in the forest such as the "urraca" (magpie), the "Loro huí" (a kind of parrot), the "Yacu-toro" (a kind of bird), the "Pato-serrucho" (a kind of duck), different species of parrots, the "Martín Pescador" (a kind of bird), the "Tucanes" (toucans), the "zorzales" (thrushes), the "Carpinteros" (a kind of bird), the "halcones" (falcons), the "Garzas" (herons), the "Tero" (a kind of bird), the "Mbigna-víbora (a kind of bird), the "Vencejos" (a kind of bird) which are easily found through the water falls and form part of that place, the "Golondrina" (swallow), the "Yacutinga and Garan" (kind of birds), etc.

Toucan

Among the batrachians there appears: the "sapo buey or Curucú" ( a kind of toad), which has an special sound that it seems as it pronunced the word ox.

butterflies

There is a great variety of insects such as butterflies of beautiful colors, "Mbaraguí and Ura" (kind of insect), mosquitoes, and other species. The exotic "Tacuríes" are found everywhere as well as thermites conical nests of one metre, which inhabitants are harmless.

Fishing is exciting in this area. There appear the following species: the "Dorado" (sworfish), the "Manguyurú" (a kind of fish), the "Surubí" (large fresh-water catfish), the "Patí-patí, Bagre, Chucho de río, Morena, Pacu" (a kind of fish), the "Salmon" (salmon), the "Corvina" (corvin) and the "Armado, Mandové, Boga, and Pirá-yaguá" (other kind of fish).

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