Sierra de Comechingones, San Luis Province, Argentinai

Regional Level Types
Sierra de Comechingones	Sierra
San Luis Province	Province
Argentina	Country

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The Sierras de Comechingones is an orographic subsystem of central-western Argentina belonging to the Sierras Pampeanas. It is located to the northeast of the province of San Luis and the west of the province of Córdoba. Upon the arrival of the Spanish conquerors in the 16th century, the inhabitants of this area were the bearded comechingones. Very soon the population became mixed, giving a type called criollo from which, in the 17th century, the mountain gauchos emerged.

Geologically this mountain range constitutes a Precambrian formation that covers approximately 100 km. It is part of the Sierras Grandes, formed by the Altas Cumbres, the Pampa de Achala and the Los Gigantes massif, an imposing group of steep peaks.

The western skirt has an abrupt relief forming the Traslasierra valley, while to the east the decline is gentler, where the Calamuchita valley rises.
Its slopes are steep and represent an important link to later access higher mountains.

Many streams run down from the mountains, and rainfall is more abundant. The climate is hot in summer and cold and dry in winter (although snowfall usually occurs in winter).

Notable mountains are the Cerro Champaquí of 2884 m, the Cerro de las Ovejas of 2260 m and the Cerro de la Bolsa of 2126 m.

The southern sector of this mountain range (which is the continuation of the Sierra Grande de Córdoba) is called Sierra de Comechingones and on the slopes of this mountain range there are abundant forests of autochthonous Caranday palm trees, in that area that marks the borders between the Argentine provinces of Córdoba and San Luis, with a center in the town of Papagayos, it has been proposed since the 1950s to create the Papagayos National Park to precisely protect these palm groves that are among the southernmost in Argentina, on the other hand in the sector located north of the border between Córdoba and San Luis, also since the 1950s it has been proposed to create a national park called Parque Nacional Sierras de Córdoba of which an embryo is the current small park Parque Nacional Quebrada del Condorito and its adjacent provincial Reserva Hídrica Pampa of Achala.

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Wikipedia:	https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierras_de_Comechingones
Wikidata ID:	Q2284506

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