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Llama-like guanacos, dwarf armadillos, and giant flightless birds, called choiques, were all frequent visitors.
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Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
After two decades of re-wilding and conservation efforts to mitigate the damage caused by livestock grazing, the area is home to around 3,000 guanacos (a cousin of the llama), 25 adult pumas, 150 Darwin’s rheas (similar to an ostrich), and a small but growing population of endangered guemal deer.
—Mary Holland, airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
Stay at the hotel or book a table at its restaurant, the Singular Patagonia, for dishes featuring local guanaco (a relative of the llama), scallops, and rhubarb.
—AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
Lagoons that are home to rare flamingos; vegetation that feeds goats, sheep, and guanacos; and a way of life followed by Indigenous Atacameño communities for thousands of years may all be in danger.
—Vince Beiser, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
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Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
After two decades of re-wilding and conservation efforts to mitigate the damage caused by livestock grazing, the area is home to around 3,000 guanacos (a cousin of the llama), 25 adult pumas, 150 Darwin’s rheas (similar to an ostrich), and a small but growing population of endangered guemal deer.
—Mary Holland, airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
Stay at the hotel or book a table at its restaurant, the Singular Patagonia, for dishes featuring local guanaco (a relative of the llama), scallops, and rhubarb.
—AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
Lagoons that are home to rare flamingos; vegetation that feeds goats, sheep, and guanacos; and a way of life followed by Indigenous Atacameño communities for thousands of years may all be in danger.
—Vince Beiser, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Guanaco.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guanaco. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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guanaco
noun
gua·na·co
gwə-ˈnäk-ō 
plural guanacos
: a South American mammal that has a soft thick light grayish brown coat and is related to the camels but lacks a hump
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