{"id":1298,"date":"2026-02-02T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ischigualasto\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:11:19","slug":"parque-ischigualasto-las-extranas-formas-geologicas-en-una-zona-habitada-por-los-primeros-dinosaurios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"Parque Ischigualasto: Las extra\u00f1as formas geol\u00f3gicas en una zona habitada por los primeros dinosaurios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>El parque provincial en San Juan de Argentina, anteriormente conocido como \u201cValle de la Luna\u201d, celebra un aumento de sus visitantes desde que Coldplay present\u00f3 hace un a\u00f1o su \u00faltimo disco. Conoce en este art\u00edculo su historia, los dinosaurios que lo habitaron, su m\u00e1s reciente descubrimiento, la amenaza del cambio clim\u00e1tico, y por qu\u00e9 es uno de los principales destinos jur\u00e1sicos del planeta.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muchas historias dieron origen a la historia que est\u00e1 por comenzar. Mientras avanzamos en un auto alquilado, bajo el sol de un mediod\u00eda de fines de invierno, y el guardaparques nos enumera todas las geoformas que estamos por conocer, pienso en el inicio de todo: en los magistrales procesos geol\u00f3gicos que dieron forma a nuestro planeta y los esfuerzos de hombres y mujeres por entenderlos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antes de que estas tierras fueran un \u00edcono tur\u00edstico que atrae a miles de personas al a\u00f1o -y hasta a la banda Coldplay, que lo eligi\u00f3 para presentar su \u00faltimo disco- intr\u00e9pidos paleont\u00f3logos tuvieron que descubrir sus f\u00f3siles en busca de gloria<\/strong>. Pero primero tuvieron que existir los seres vivos m\u00e1s peligrosos que habitaron la Tierra: cuando esto era una sabana llena de vida, reinaban los dinosaurios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIschigualasto es un vocablo que proviene del pueblo originario diaguita que habitaba la zona. La terminaci\u00f3n&nbsp;<em>asto<\/em>&nbsp;significa \u2018pueblo de\u2019; no conocemos la primera parte, hay muchas teor\u00edas, pero la m\u00e1s aceptada es \u2018lugar sin vida\u2019\u201d, explica Alejandro Sosa, guardaparques, mientras nos acercamos al Valle Pintado, el inicio del circuito tradicional que propone el parque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Desde ac\u00e1 arriba se pueden observar todas las edades geol\u00f3gicas.<\/strong>&nbsp;Cuando comenzaron a evolucionar los primeros dinosaurios, esta zona era una cuenca con r\u00edos y lagos que acumulaban sedimentos y fosilizaban los restos de los animales. \u201cLa placa tect\u00f3nica de Nazca, que est\u00e1 bajo el Pac\u00edfico, hace unos 60 millones de a\u00f1os choca con la placa de Sudam\u00e9rica y empieza a empujar hacia arriba, en un proceso conocido como subducci\u00f3n. Esto genera la Cordillera de Los Andes, por un lado, y por el otro, hace<br>aflorar todos estos f\u00f3siles nuevamente\u201d, dice Alejandro en su camino a la vista panor\u00e1mica del Valle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El parque provincial en San Juan de Argentina, anteriormente conocido como \u201cValle de la Luna\u201d, celebra un aumento de sus visitantes desde que Coldplay present\u00f3 hace un a\u00f1o su \u00faltimo disco. Conoce en este art\u00edculo su historia, los dinosaurios que lo habitaron, su m\u00e1s reciente descubrimiento, la amenaza del cambio clim\u00e1tico, y por qu\u00e9 es [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ischigualasto.gob.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}