Urban Legends

Cryptids — Argentina

Cryptids — Argentina. 1 place in the catalogue, each with coordinates, the story behind it and a danger level from white to black.

Nahuel Huapi and Nahuelito
Yellow
Cryptid

Nahuel Huapi and Nahuelito

A deep glacial lake in Argentine Patagonia where a creature was described long before Loch Ness: the Mapuche were telling the Spanish about it in the eighteenth century. In 1922 the Buenos Aires zoo announced an expedition to find a plesiosaur and the story went round the world. Nahuelito is described as a humped back some fifteen metres long; there are many photographs and not one convincing.

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