Description

This private reserve of 100,000 hectares has had great tourist development in recent years. This territory was part of the complex called Panguipulli Timber, timber concession that was exploited by the state until the 80s, when it was privatized. Its environmental importance is indisputable, which is enhanced by collaborations such as the agreement to use the Reserve Mocho Choshuenco, signed in November 2011 with CONAF. At present, an interesting project to reintroduce Patagonian huemul is developed in Huilo Huilo.

The flora of the reserve is dominated by the Patagonian forest, moist mixed forest with a huge variety of species, in which evergreen trees as coigue dominate with a height exceeding 25 m., Ulmo, tepa and laurel, olivillo , lingual, tineo, hazel, cinnamon, notro. It also contains conifers like Mañío and Mañio Macho. In some sectors are deciduous trees such as oak, ñirre, Lenga and Raulí.

Huilo Huilo Forest is characterized by its high wealth of species of ferns, fungi, bryophytes (musgas and liverworts) and lichens, which are an important part of the forest floor and also grow on the trunks of old trees and those They have fallen. In Huilo Huilo described 81 species of birds, among which chucao, which belong to the group of birds known as Rhinocryptidos, which are fully adapted to living in the forest floor. Another emblematic bird is the black carpenter. Among the mammals you will find the world's smallest deer, endemic to this forest, the Pudu. Among the felines the presence of cougar, bobcat and güiña or kod-kod, one of the smallest wild cats in the world, which inhabits both the ground and in the treetops stands. There is also the sole representative of an order and a family of marsupials, the monkey bush. Among the amphibians, it is the Darwin Toad.