![\"Monte](\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/monteleon2.jpg\" "\\"Monte")
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A few Km. from Puerto Santa Cruz there is an\u00a0Estancia<\/a>, Monte Le\u00f3n, that shelters\u00a0an extraordinary reservation of flora and fauna<\/strong>\u00a0as well as unmatchable sites in terms of archaeological and paleontological value. The name Monte Le\u00f3n comes from a rocky promontory located at the entrance of the road that leads to the coast, that resembles a lying feline, with its erected head.<\/p>\n It is 35 Km. from Puerto Santa Cruz and 219 Km. from\u00a0R\u00edo Gallegos<\/a>.<\/p>\n The typical fauna includes Sea Lions, lots of\u00a0Magellan Penguins<\/a>, \u00f1and\u00faes and guanacos. There is also a great assortment of sea birds, some of them considered unique like the Imperial or Black Necked Cormorants and Austral Seagulls.<\/p>\n The concept behind a Marine National Park is that the protected water surface equals the one of the land<\/strong>. In total, this Park has an extension similar to that of the Iguazu Falls National Park, besides being the first in the country covering both a marine and coastal ecosystem.<\/p>\n The beaches present canyons, cliffs and rocky sectors, perfect to enjoy a memorable sea journey (in summer of course) when the tide is low.<\/p>\n But the future tourists will not only be able to visit the beach and admire all the flora and fauna in this unique environment, but they will also have at their disposal the antique Estancia, a traditional\u00a0wool manufacturing establishment. All the aboriginal testimonies, along with remainders of wrecks and some local battles that took place the very first days of the white colonization, will be displayed there.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Patagonia has its first Sea National Park. This status is equivalent to that of the Coral wall in Australia or some areas in the Brazilian sea coastline. Here we tell you about the hidden treasures you will be able to make yours at this Park. A few Km. from Puerto Santa Cruz there is an\u00a0Estancia,… Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[50],"class_list":{"0":"post-1428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-parques-nacionales","8":"tag-enhomecat"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12673,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/12673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis Estancia belonged to the Braun family. In 1999, conscious of the value of the lands they were occupying, they sold it to an U.S. ecological foundation, \u201cThe Patagonia Land Trust\u201d<\/strong>. They, in turn, contacted the\u00a0Wildlife Foundation of Argentina<\/strong>\u00a0to whom they ceded the old Estancia as a fideicommissum, a legal figure that enforces that the original objective of the donation is met. And the objective is to constitute an new National Park.<\/p>\n![\"Monte](\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/monteleon3.jpg\" "\\"Monte")
At the coast there are caves of a great archaeological and paleontological value<\/strong>. There is evidence (arrows, and oyster remainders) that confirms the primitive Tehuelches lived there. Among all the caves, one gets the spotlight: it is almost 40 meters deep and 30 meters wide, with two exits.<\/p>\n