La réserve El Saladero, un vestige des paysages du Rio de la Plata

The Rio de la Plata Estuary, between Argentina and Uruguay, is one of the largest estuaries of the World. Once a vast mosaic of marshes, pampas and woods, it is today mainly an industrial and agricultural region where over 12, 000, 000 people live.
There are still nevertheless small areas where one can imagine what once was this estuary : it is the case of the El Saladero reserve, in the District of Magdalena, Province of Buenos Aires, at 100 km from the Capital city. Its surface is only around 80 hectares but it is surprisingly varied, with areas of pasture, groves of woods of « talares » over rock shell slopes, « coronillares », « ceibales », marshlands, marginal forest, and around 400 m of its front lies over the Rio de la Plata. The variety of habitats and their good state of conservation enable a great variety of birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and invertebrates to use this reserve as areas of rest, feeding, shelter and nest.