An ‘impenetrable’ wildlife sanctuary in Argentina opens to the world

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One of South America’s most remote parks offers jaguar-spotting, glamping, and off-the-beaten track hikes.

In 2022, two jaguar cubs were born at Parque Nacional El Impenetrable in northern Argentina. The 320,000-acre preserve opened in 2017, but hiking trails, glamping sites, and tourism programs have recently made the area easier to explore., which opened in 2017, is one of the South American country’s newest and most diverse wildlife sanctuaries—and a growing site for ecotourism.

“My first trip to El Impenetrable was like traveling back in time because it still had the flora and fauna we’re losing elsewhere,” recalls Marisi López, regional coordinator of parks and tourism at. The NGO was one of nearly two dozen nonprofit groups that swooped in after Roseo’s death to help persuade the Argentinian government to expropriate a swath of the bachelor’s land—the size of

The first reintroduced animals were 38 red-footed tortoises , in 2022; 30 guanacos, close relatives of llamas, were released just outside park boundaries in 2023. All of this new wildlife is monitored through camera traps or collars. There are also plans to reintroduce apex predators like giant river otters and jaguars.

 

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