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Esteros del Ibera Natural Reserve
The Ibera natural Reserve is
located in the province of Correintes, in the northeast of the
Argentine Republic, the known ecosystem as Esteros del Iberá must to
their name to the Ibera lagoon located in the zone Eastern center of
this immense system of humedals. The Iberá word is formed by two
words of the guaraní language: ¨Î¨, water, that put in front to
¨berá¨, brilliant, in its Castilian translation to express to the
site like ¨el the water that shines or brilla¨, name that supposedly
gave to their original guaraníes settlers when observing the
chispeante brightness him of their surface. This peculiarity is
visible in its water mirrors during the aurora or anocher, when the
own calm of a closed system, without fluvial currents, bankruptcy
with the breeze produced by the change of temperature between the
surrounding terrestrial surface and the water of the matting or
lagoons, causing itself a superficial movement that reflects with
very particular effects the solar light to crepuscular. Certain
objection exists nevertheless on this origin of the denomination,
because between the settlers the belief that still lasts the name
must to heroic princess Iberá, the daughter of the guaraní cacique
who submerged in the matting to protect the dignity of his culture
1. In fact this name has been evolving with happening of the time,
since registries exist that they originally identify to the site
like Matting of Expensive Face, because in this place the emigrated
natives lived on the Mission of Santa Ana by committed crimes, knew
by “Caracará”, name also given to a bird of rotten prey: the “owl” (Figueredo,
1929)era@esterosdelibera.com
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