Somuncurá Provincial Reserve

Somuncurá Provincial Reserve or Meseta de Somuncura Provicial Natural Protected Area (Area Natural Protegida Provincial Meseta de Somuncurá) is a protected place in Argentina. Plants and animals live there. People are not allowed to do whatever they want here, for example build a city. However, some people still raise animals and look for oil.^[1]

This park is on a high place shaped like a table in Río Negro Province and Chubut. It has volcanoes, a flat volcano plain, and giant steps made out of natural basalt rock. There are many lagoon lakes with underwater plants in them. Three streams go through the park: La Ventana, Los Berros, and El Verde. The Velcheta stream flows into the bigger Rio Negro.^[1][2][3]

This place is important because all of the Pleurodema somuncurense amphibians and most of the Atelognathus reverberii frogs that are still alive live here^[2] and because it has many places where scientists can find old things from Argentina's indigenous people.^[1]

This place has endangered frogs in it. The flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis also lives here. Scientists think other birds, for example the Patagonian tinamou Tinamotis ingoufi might live here too.^[1]