Lauca Biosphere Reserve

UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, inscribed 1981, in Chile. The Lauca Biosphere Reserve is situated in the Puna biogeographic region in the northern part of Chile in the Andean chain. It is home to unique flora with endemic species, some of which are of great medicinal importance, as well as fauna that include vicuñas, guanacos, vizcachas, foxes, quirquinchos, pumas, tarucas, suris or ñandús, and a great variety of birds such as flamingos and guallatas. This is one of the areas with the greatest number of bird species described in Chile.