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National parks of Argentina: all 39 on APN's regional pages

By Gallivanting GadaboutResearched, not travelledSource: Administración de Parques Nacionales, checked 1 Oct 2026
TL;DR

Argentina's national parks agency, the Administración de Parques Nacionales, lists 39 national parks across its five regional pages, from Baritú in Salta to Tierra del Fuego. Where its history page states the year a park was created, we give it; for eleven parks it does not state one year directly.12

Which national parks does APN list?

APN's five regional pages list the protected areas it manages; 39 of them are named Parque Nacional. We leave out the other designations on the same pages, such as national reserves and natural monuments. No APN page we saved states a total, so the count is ours.1

National parks of Argentina on the APN regional pages
National park (as APN names it)Province (as APN gives it)Year created, as APN's history page states it
Parque Nacional BaritúProvincia de Salta19742
Parque Nacional El ReyProvincia de Salta—*
Parque Nacional Los CardonesProvincia de Salta—†
Parque Nacional AconquijaProvincia de Tucumán20182
Parque Nacional CalileguaProvincia de Jujuy19782
Parque Nacional CopoProvincia de Santiago del Estero20002
Parque Nacional IguazúProvincia de Misiones19342
Parque Nacional ChacoProvincia del Chaco19452
Parque Nacional El ImpenetrableProvincia del Chaco20142
Parque Nacional Laguna El PalmarProvincia del Chaco20232
Parque Nacional IberáProvincia de Corrientes20182
Parque Nacional MburucuyáProvincia de Corrientes20012
Parque Nacional Río PilcomayoProvincia de Formosa19512
Parque Nacional Quebrada del CondoritoProvincia de Córdoba—†
Parque Nacional TraslasierraProvincia de Córdoba20182
Parque Nacional AnsenuzaProvincia de Córdoba20222
Parque Nacional El LeoncitoProvincia de San Juan20022
Parque Nacional San GuillermoProvincia de San Juan19982
Parque Nacional Sierra de las QuijadasProvincia de San Luis19912
Parque Nacional TalampayaProvincia de La Rioja19972
Parque Nacional Islas de Santa FeProvincia de Santa Fe20102
Parque Nacional Pre-DeltaProvincia de Entre Ríos—†
Parque Nacional El PalmarProvincia de Entre Ríos19652
Parque Nacional Ciervo de los PantanosProvincia de Buenos Aires20182
Parque Nacional Campos del TuyúProvincia de Buenos Aires20092
Parque Nacional LanínProvincia del Neuquén—*
Parque Nacional Laguna BlancaProvincia del Neuquén—*
Parque Nacional Los ArrayanesProvincia del Neuquén19712
Parque Nacional Nahuel HuapiProvincias de Río Negro y Neuquén—*
Parque Nacional Islote LobosProvincia de Río Negro20222
Parque Nacional Lihué CalelProvincia de La Pampa19772
Parque Nacional Los AlercesProvincia del Chubut—*
Parque Nacional Lago PueloProvincia del Chubut19712
Parque Nacional Los GlaciaresProvincia de Santa Cruz (Glaciar Perito Moreno)—*
Parque Nacional Perito MorenoProvincia de Santa Cruz—*
Parque Nacional PatagoniaProvincia de Santa Cruz—*
Parque Nacional Bosques Petrificados de JaramilloProvincia de Santa Cruz20122
Parque Nacional Monte LeónProvincia de Santa Cruz20042
Parque Nacional Tierra del FuegoProvincia de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur19602

* APN's history page gives no single year for these eight: for Nahuel Huapi it gives two, for five parks in the south it says only around 1945, and for El Rey and Patagonia it does not give one year for the national park.2 † For these three the history page gives the year only relative to another year, so we leave it out rather than work it out.

What does the year mean?

It is the year APN's history page gives for the park's creation. The page mixes the sanction of a law, the creation of a park and the upgrading of an earlier reserve, so the years do not all mark the same legal step.2

Can this list be reused?

Argentina.gob.ar's terms say the state licenses all its content under Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional, except where stated otherwise; the APN pages we used state nothing otherwise.3 We use no photos from the pages.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Our count. No APN page we saved states a total number of national parks; the count is ours, from the regional pages.
  • Years are not all the same kind. See above.

Related: National parks around the world · National parks of Japan · Officially recognised places.

Key takeaways

  • APN's regional pages list 39 national parks.
  • The year is the one APN's history page gives; it does not always mark the same legal step.
  • Eleven parks have no year here because the page gives none, or only a relative one.
  • What we would skip: reading the list as a ranking or a travel guide. It records an official designation; it says nothing about opening, access or conditions, so check each park's own information before you go.

Sources

The list comes from the Administración de Parques Nacionales' five regional pages and its history page on Argentina.gob.ar; the licence from the site's terms. All read on 1 October 2026. See how we research.

  1. Administración de Parques Nacionales (APN), Argentina.gob.ar, regional pages: Noroeste, Noreste, Centro, Patagonia Norte and Patagonia Austral. Read APN's pages on Argentina.gob.ar. Accessed 1 October 2026.
  2. Administración de Parques Nacionales (APN), Argentina.gob.ar, Historia. Read it on Argentina.gob.ar. Accessed 1 October 2026.
  3. Argentina.gob.ar, Términos y condiciones. Read them on Argentina.gob.ar. Accessed 1 October 2026.

Credit and licence. Fuente: Administración de Parques Nacionales (APN), Argentina.gob.ar - contenido bajo licencia Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0). Lista elaborada a partir de las páginas regionales de la APN. CC BY 4.0. Changes made. We compiled the national parks from the five regional pages into one table, added the years stated on the history page and translated the explanations into English. We use no logos or images from these sources. Gallivanting Gadabout is not connected with, or endorsed by, the Administración de Parques Nacionales or the Argentine state.