El Niño driven climate variability and drainage anomalies in Puelo Lake, (Patagonia, Argentina)

SCARPATI, O., M. J. FIORITI AND A. D. CAPRIOLO

Moscú, Rusia

Congreso; Tenth International Symposium on River Sedimentation; 2007

M. V. Lomonosov Moscow state University

Argentine Patagonia, located at southern South America, covers a surface of 700,000 km2. Its climate is cold temperate with moderate thermal amplitude and predominance of westerlies winds. These are very intense and persistent. At northwestern Patagonia is the Puelo and Manso Rivers basin, which includes the Puelo Lake National Park. It belongs to a region which have experienced changes in its physical, biotic and anthropic features. The studied area is located in the Andean patagonic region, it has great importance by its natural resources and needs studies which helps to understand and improve all type of explotations. These will as much allow economic balances in their internal commerce as of export and to generate sources of work to the settlers.