"It is westward beyond the semi-arid pampas or plains that the most interesting and least thoroughly known portions of Patagonia are found. Along the eastern slopes of the Andes and in some of the valleys between its parallel ranges is a scenic and climatic paradise. Grassy meadows and forest-clad slopes alternate with sheer cliffs and towering, snow-manned peaks, and scattered everywhere are innumerable sparkling streams and sky-blue lakes. This is, in fact, one of the most extensive and most wonderful lake regions in the world. A number of these bodies of water are comparable in size to Lake Champlain. Only a relatively few of the smaller lakes have been named and some have been numbered. Many of them, however, have not been explored. It is in this inter-mountain lake region that scientific expeditions will search for the strange creatures reported to have been seen there.
"One of the best known of the Andean Lakes of Argentina is Nahuel Huapi. This lake is in the edge of Patagonia, but is still nearly 1,000 miles north of Cape Horn. The area is probably in the neighborhood of 250 square miles. Its latitude in the southern hemisphere almost exactly corresponds to that in the northern hemisphere of the Rock Mountain National park, just north of Denver; and is about 800 miles from Buenos Aires, the same distance as that which separates Denver from Chicago. Much territory will be made into one Argentina's principal national playgrounds. It is planned to harness the outlet river and to build at the eastern margin of the lake, in addition to the city's natural beauty.  In the midst of delightful climate, a great industrial city.

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