Qualla: El Palmar National Park https://qualla.com/el-palmar-national-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: El Palmar National Park https://qualla.com/el-palmar-national-park El Palmar National Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/el-palmar-national-park/ Picture a forest of palms tall enough to walk beneath, their gray columns rising twelve meters or more above a sea of grass, stretching to the horizon in every direction. That landscape once covered great swaths of Entre Ríos, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. Almost all of it is gone now, plowed under for crops and grazed away by cattle, until the towering yatay palm became a rarity in the very region it once defined. El Palmar National Park exists to hold the line. Within its boundaries survives one of the last extensive stands of these palms, a living window onto a world that the rest of the savanna has lost.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/q/d/el-palmar-national-park-wp/6dqd-el-palmar-national-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full El Palmar National Park: The Last of the Palm Savanna https://qualla.com/el-palmar-national-park/ The yatay palm, Butia yatay, is the soul of this place. In the nineteenth century these palms blanketed the river country of the Argentine Mesopotamia and beyond, a defining feature of the landscape. Then came the slow erasure. As agriculture, ranching, and forestry intensified a...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/q/d/el-palmar-national-park-wp/6dqd-el-palmar-national-park-the-last-of-the-palm-savanna.mp3 0:06 2 full El Palmar National Park: A Mesopotamian Mosaic https://qualla.com/el-palmar-national-park/ El Palmar is more than its palms. The park protects a temperate, humid savanna typical of the land between Argentina's great rivers, a mosaic of palm groves, open grassland, low woods, and gallery forest. Threading through it all are streams that run east to empty into the Río Ur...

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