Laguna Blanca
- Filed under: Paraguay
- Date: May 22,2008
Laguna Blanca is an ecologic and touristic location of Paraguay that comprehends an agricultural and cattle establishment, with a lake that is settled over calcareous sand, fact that makes the water completely transparent and apt for diving.
It is located in San Pedro Department, in the district Santa Rosa del Aguaray, about 28 kilometers east the city of the same name.
The surface of the lake is about 147 hectares. It is considered by specialist as the only natural lake of the country, because it does not have a thermostatic stratification, a depth of more than 7 meters and a source of its own. Its water is crystalline and the white sand beaches.
There are private properties and a state reserve next to the lake. The private properties dedicate to agricultural and cattle activities. The state reserve, initially with a surface of 70 hectares, was occupied by rurals and even sold in parts to businessman of the region, so there is left just a small part of the surface that limits with the lake now.
In Laguna Blanca Ranch, property of Duarte family, since 1997 the rural tourism started to develop. The Laguna Blanca Ranch is member of APATUR (Asociación Paraguaya de Turismo Rural) since its foundation and develops interesting activities for tourists. Nowadays is in process of being declared Private Natural Reserve with the support of nongovernmental organizations, the Paraguayan Network of Private Land Preservation, the special support of IDEA, Natural Land Trust and Guyrá Paraguay.
The publishing of the discoveries made in this beautiful place in Paraguay has giving it an international status that attracted a great number of scientists and tourists in the latest years. The place has been declared internationally “Important Bird Area”, and assigned the code PY030 Laguna Blanca. The IBA’s international program is created by Birdlife International, a lieder organization in the world in the knowledge of birds and their preservation. Guyra Paraguay is their representing in Paraguay.