FLORA IN CORRIENTES

The Mesopotamian Park, a formation predominant in the territory of Corrientes grows between the Missionary Forest to the north and the Pampas Steppe to the south, where a variety of plants comopounded by trees, shrubs and herbaceous species typical of the region determine the geography.

We find prairies and savannahs with grasses, standing by themselves or along with other formations: hydrophilic species in the marshy areas, galleries of forests along the riverbanks and isolated forest in the midst of the grasslands. But usually, the weather conditions determine the predominance of trees in the north and grasses in the south.

The main trees are the urunday, the pau d'arco, the white fern leaf acacia, the timbó, the guapohú, the ceiba, the isa-purú and the crossbred willow, alternated with lianas, thorny bushes, and bamboos.

It also comprises the kind of woods known as The Gallery, which grows alongside the watercourses and that happens to be a prolongation of the Missionary Forest where the tacuaruzú, the red or crossbred willow, pindó, ibirá pitá, higuerón or agarrapalo, ombú, laurel, red timbó and the river evergreen alder grow. The soil is covered by mosses and abundant epiphytes that live on the trunks of the trees.