On the guided visits through the Forest you can do sightseeing of the following places:
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Trunks Banks / Araucarias Trail
It is a big fossils accumulation. They are remains of living beings that have been preserved inside the geological stratum of earth’s crust through the time and most of them keep the same characteristics.
They are petrified trunks whose cells were replaced for minerals such as: silica, calcium, and phosphorus; this way they got siliciferous. |
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Area of Petrified
In this place you can observe a big amount of pieces of petrified wood, and the cuts in the fossil trunks with their growing rings visible with several internal quartz samples. |
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Carbonized Trunks on Los Sábalos Brook
In this place the trunks show a different color from the others (black) because of the high temperatures and the pressure they received during their fossilization, you can also see on the internal circles a big amount of quartz inside the tissues of wood.
According to the paleontogical studies done by ROBERTH SHUMAEKER this area is from 65 to 100 million years old. We find stamps of primitive plant leaves similar to the brackens and palms present in these days. |
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The Giant’s Trail
In this place you can watch the biggest petrified tree in the area.
Its characteristics: petrified tree wood colored, 15 meters long and a 2 meters diameter, it belongs to the ARAUCARIAS Family and to CRETACEOUS Period, it means it was on its natural position 120 million years ago.
Most of it is fragmented and the rest is covered by big amount of volcanic sediments. |
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Los Ajos Trail
Named this way because it is a place where you can look up to many petrified trunks scattered all over the area, and around it we can see plants called ajos, which have a characteristic garlic (ajo) smell that is used in cooking and alimentation. |
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"Lodos Fósiles" (Fossil Mud) Trail:
Sedimentary rock with plenty of fossils such as: bivalve ammonites, star fish and so on. |
