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alerce
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alerce [əˈlɜːs æˈlɜːsɪ]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) the wood of the sandarac tree
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a cupressus-like Chilean pine, Fitzroya cupressoides, cut for timber
[Spanish: larch, from Latin larix, influenced by Arabic al-arz]


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Starting in Gaiman, regarded as the most eminently Welsh of the area's settlements, he will visit Los Alerces National Park in the foothills of the Andes, Nant y Fall waterfalls, and a Welsh tea house called Tye Nain at nearby Trevelin.
The most impressive of the old trees, some of the alerces are as many as three thousand years old.
In the southern Argentine province of Chubut inside the Patagonia Mountain forest, the 263,000-hectare Los Alerces National Park (ANP) represents one of the largest protected areas in the southern temperate forest.
 
 
 
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