Jurassic Plant’s carnivorous plants, the people founded three times and the beauty of the irrup

We are in the Isoró reservelocated in the Locality of San Isidro, halfway between Goya and EsquinaCorrientes.

At one time, the guide’s explanations about this Complex wetland network that feeds on the Paraná River. The image is more powerful than words.

All the attention is in the water mirror. There they appear Beautiful copies of Irupéthat beautiful – and immense – floating sheets capable of supporting the weight of a bird or a small child.

The look stays in the flange, in the water exit channels, in the thorns that serve as protection of the predators, in that perfect engineering that one can imagine of roots anchored at the bottom of the estuaries. Floating leaves that appear in calm waters. Who could be that haven.

He Irupé show is just a thousandth of that macrosystem called Great Park Iberáwhich occupies 1.3 million hectares of estuaries, bathed, lagoons, reservoirs, grasslands and a world so vast that occupies a quarter of the surface of the entire province of Corrientes.

The visit to some of his nine entrance portals or private reservations They are a trip to the deepest of their plot. And an invitation to navigate its waters, make kayak, camp on a desolate island or visit a nursery of carnivorous plants.

Iberá means “water that shines” in Guaraní. The idea is to take a tour to take us, even for a little while, some of that brightness and the calm of the irrup.

To say that one knows the estuaries of Iberá is a great presumption. We can barely see a very small part, a tiny portion of the largest natural park in Argentina. The Esteros de Ysoró (or Isoró), a private reserve of 77 thousand hectares, is inside the Stella Maris place, 30 minutes from Goya.

The place is a Paradise for fishing lovers because it offers the opportunity for captures in a sector of estuaries as a result of the overflow of the Middle Paraná. In that environment of nature, irrupses and exuberance, only sport fishing can be done in the spinning and Fly Cast. With fishing excursions or only on a walk, the jungle that emerges from that unbridled channel structure, of “streets” overflowing with flowers will be felt on a walk.

From San Isidro there are four hours of travel to the following destination: Loreto. He Pueblo de 4,500 inhabitants are famous for its roots with the Chamamé -Aquí was born the musician Mario Bofill and there is a statue in his honor in the square-, religiosity and tradition, in addition to being close to the San Antonio del Parque Iberá Portal.

But that will come later. Now it’s night and we visit Jurassic Planta unique carnivorous plants garden in Argentina by Federico Parrilli, a specialist who cultivates them 17 years ago.

“I usually go through the branches. I am a handle with the theme,” Federico anticipates, which with a flashlight shows from the Sarracenias with their tube -shaped leaves to the nepenthes and the venus caught. “The one that has Elisha in the series the manager”says someone.

The visit is not only a fascinating trip to world of carnivorous plantsbut also a sample button on the diversity of this region. Parrilli account that, for example, 15 of the 20 species of native carnivorous in the country are in this area. The great moment, of course, is when the plant feeds a worm and invites us to do it with a clamp. “It takes up to four days to eat a fly,” he says with a contagious enthusiasm.

Before returning to the landscapes of Esteros, it is worth immersing himself in the history of Loreto. The Miguel Ojeda Guide tells the story of the people founded three times (1610, 1632 and 1817), the passage of the Jesuits through the place and the more than 40 chapels and home altars. On a street, a Mural selection Tell your story clearly.

About 15 kilometers from Loreto along the way of gravel is the San Antonio portal.

The ball is, in fact, a lagoon where the day can be passed and stop in some of its viewpoints. There is a path of medicinal plants and the look stops in A Martín Pescadora chajá, a yacaré or a heron that passes through that rounded lagoon where kayak can also be practiced.

In a part of the portal there are Ladies in a circular structure; The idea is to stop at the sea of ​​stars that gives the place at night.

To make the visit even more sense, it is advisable to go through the Interpretation Center, which speaks not only of the flora and fauna of the place but also of the symbology and customs of its inhabitants.

The trip is still in conception of the Yaguareté Corá, One of the oldest villages in the province and close to the Carambola portal. We arrive at El Transit, a hotel located in a stay of the 20th, which also houses a private national reserve to the park.

If there is an unmissable estuaries, it is the nautical excursion. In this case it is done in a catamaran of the hotel from the Puerto Juli Cué. Gustavo Vera is the guide that will take us through the Carambolita stream.

Navigating those waters is to immerse yourself in the prodigious variety of nature; A visible force that calls for lucidity to tell it, to honor it, to put some appropriate adjectives. Water seems stopped in time, motionless, and barely waves with the passage of the boat. Like a moving photo album, a carpincho devour Camalotes, a swamp deer and the predator par excellence: the yacaré. “In the estuaries there are about 4,500 species of flora and fauna,” says Vera, who barely adds some data, as if the words were hindered.

When the afternoon falls, we sail with the sun and the moon. A Biguá manages to catch a fish and the iPacaá song puts music at sunset. The guide stops the boat engine. Silence is imposed and a pink sky, slight like the Jacana who has just posed in a reed. Vera improvises a picnic: tablecloth on the conservative, something to chop, a drink that will have a good taste because it is complemented with the landscape.

“The Shot island It is called that because in a time they lived tigers and then men arrived, and in the encounter someone shot: some say that the men, others that the tigers, but in the end – as the men always left, ”Rodolfo Walsh once wrote about his visit to this remote island.

To make the journey we left the Medina lagoon with Agustín “Tete”, our guide. We sail between reservoirs -Geximities of vegetation and channels. In the water a line is clear by undulating his body as a wave and moving his sides like wings.

It is sailed for more than an hour. In a moment, the boat stops. The reservoirs form a dense background, which does not allow the passage of the boat. “It’s as if the estuaries did not want us to be here,” says “Tete.”

From the Trim lagoon you can see the island of the shot, while the sun paints the totoras. Upon arrival, there is a Nice feeling of isolation from the world. We are waiting for a roast, a nap in a cot and look at a sky of fat clouds.

He is ready Glamping, with a wooden platform, tents and cuers with sleeping bagsin addition to a small living. No more is needed.

Little by little, the surface of the water begins to dye gray. The night advances. We cross it looking at the phosphorescent wake of the stars. AND We are left with the brightness of Iberá in memory.

• Aerolineas Argentinas and Flybondi have direct flights to currents. Ida and turn passages are achieved from $ 73,900.

• To go to the San Antonio portal, you can take a bus from retirement directly to the town of Loreto (fast Tata, $ 96,000 went in semicama).

• Posada de las Footprints is a comfortable and historic hotel located in Loreto. The double room with breakfast costs $ 50,000 (Instagram @p.delashuellas)

• The Boutique Hotel Transit is located in the Esteros -the entrance to the hotel is through the Carambola portal -22 kilometers from Concepción del Yaguareté Corá. It has an All Inclusive fee that includes accommodation, drinks with and without alcohol, the four meals, excursions and free bar from 20 to 24. The price is US $ 400 per night on a double base (eltransitoibera.com).

• Although you can visit the whole year, the Best time To go to the estuaries it is in autumn and spring, when the weather is more temperate.

• It is essential to carry sunscreen, hat or hat and sunglasses.

• Long sleeve is advised to protect the arms.

• Make fire only in enabled places.

• In general, hotels offer wifi, but the connection is usually slow.

• To observe nature, longovis and photo cameras help.

• If you travel with your own vehicle, the revenue sections to the portals of the estuaries are of passable land. Verify road conditions Before starting the trip.