Temperate humid forest
These ecosystems cover 65% of the protected area.
Their conservation over large areas allows maintaining the functionality and contributions that forests provide to humans and non-humans, such as their ability to capture carbon, emit oxygen and their ability to regulate water cycles.
Four vegetation zones can be observed in the Sanctuary:
– Temperate evergreen inland forest of Magellan’s betuloides (Nothofagus betuloides) and taique (Desfontainia fulgens), in low forested areas.
– Temperate Andean deciduous scrubland of ñire (Nothofagus antarctica) in higher and colder areas.
– Andean temperate deciduous forest of lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) and sarsaparilla (Ribes cucullatum).
– Temperate Andean grassland of Nassauvia dentata and Senecio portalesianus.
