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January 1999
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... Further north, near the city of Mendoza (with around one million inhabitants), Argentina, the creation of the "Provincial Park Cordón del Plata" ensured the protection of mountain permafrost and rock glaciers, which are cryogenic indicators of underground ice and are little known for their hydrological importance. Here, not just cryoforms are protected (rock glaciers, protalus ramparts, or cryogenic sedimentary slopes), but the entire periglacial environment of the upper hydrographic basin, which is being transformed by environmental changes and climatic variability, including water recharge areas (which preserve the supply), glaciers, flora, and fauna of the Andean tundra (File No. 8372/C/9930091) [61]. ...
January 1999