You can find capybaras, caimans, and more at Iberá National Park in Argentina.
watching the clouds reflect off the mirror-like water. The unusual morning fog has burned off leaving a deep blue sky, and we sit for a few minutes just taking in the view. Eventually Domingo speaks up. “When I was a kid, I would swim in here all the time.”
“Not when I was a kid, but a few years ago I saw a piranha bite a chunk of skin out of my friend’s foot when he was getting out of the boat. Their teeth cut through the skin like a knife. Now I have a little more fear than I used to.” The Lagoon Iberá is part of the Greater Iberá National Park. Created in 2018, the 1.76 million hectare park full of grasslands, forests, floating islands and marshes is on its way to become one of Argentina’s greatest natural attractions. The park encompasses much of Iberá Wetlands, which is one of the most significant fresh water reservoirs in South America and the second-largest wetland system in the world after Brazil’s Pantanal.
“This town used to be a ghost town,” Domingo said. “There was only one main road and there was nothing to do. People who left and came back a few decades later say it is a completely different town.”
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