First contribute to the limnological knowledge of lentic water bodies belonging to the territory of the 'Fundacion San Ignacio del Huinay' (X region de los lagos, Chile)

Caracterizacion limnologica regional de las masas de agua continentales de Huinay, Decima Region De Los Lagos, Chile

Tipologica ambiental de los sistemas leniticos de Huinay (Decima Region de Los Lagos, Chile) y distribucion del plancton limnico

Limnological characterization of 16 lentic water bodies belonging to the territory of the ‘Fundación San Ignacio Del Huinay’, X region de Los Lagos, Chile

Huinay is a territory covering about 34,000 hectares in the Commune of Hualaihué (Xth region of Chile) and belonging to the San Ignacio del Huinay Foundation (HF). Its location (42° 22´ S; 72° 24´ W) corresponds to the bio-geographical Province of Magallanes and specifi cally to an area which is highly representative of the continental Northern Patagonia. Based on an aerial prospecting conducted during 2008, we identifi ed more than 30 water bodies of different size and morphology, occurring at different heights and in different landscapes. Among these, 16 water bodies were selected to be studied at the end of the summer, in February 2009. In each water body, longitudinal and transversal ba…