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Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument

Index Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument

Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument is a Natural Monument located in the Chilean Patagonia, northwest of Puerto Natales and north of Punta Arenas. [1]

23 relations: Anno Domini, Cave, Cerro Benítez, Cerro Toro, Chile, Eberhard Fjord, Ground sloth, Hermann Eberhard, Hippidion, Litopterna, Macrauchenia, Magallanes Region, Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum, Mylodon, National Forest Corporation (Chile), Natural monument, Otto Nordenskjöld, Patagonia, Pleistocene, Puerto Natales, Punta Arenas, Saber-toothed cat, Smilodon.

Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Cave

A cave is a hollow place in the ground, specifically a natural space large enough for a human to enter.

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Cerro Benítez

Cerro Benítez ("Benítez hill") is a mountain in the Patagonian region of Chile.

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Cerro Toro

Cerro Toro is a Cretaceous landform of the Magallanes Foreland in the Patagonian region of southeastern Chile.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Eberhard Fjord

Eberhard Fjord is an arm of Seno Ultima Esperanza in the Patagonian region of Chile.

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Ground sloth

Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths, in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra.

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Hermann Eberhard

Hermann Eberhard (27 February 1852 in Ohlau, Silesia – 30 May 1908) was a 19th-century German explorer credited with western discovery of considerable lands in Patagonia, Chile.

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Hippidion

Hippidion (meaning little horse) is an extinct genus of horse that lived in South America from the Pliocene to the mid-Holocene, between two million and 8,000 years ago.

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Litopterna

Litopterna (from λῑτή πτέρνα "smooth heel") is an extinct order of fossil hoofed mammals (ungulates) from the Cenozoic period that displayed toe reduction – three-toed forms developed; there was even a one-toed horselike form.

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Macrauchenia

Macrauchenia (name meaning "long llama", based on the now superseded Latin term for llamas, Auchenia, from Greek terms which literally means "big neck") was a long-necked and long-limbed, three-toed South American ungulate, typifying the order Litopterna.

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Magallanes Region

The Region of Magallanes, officially the XII Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.

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Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum

The Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum is an anthropology museum in Puerto Williams, Isla Navarino, in southernmost Chile.

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Mylodon

Mylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloths that lived in South America; Patagonia (Chile and Argentina) until roughly 5,000 years ago and was possibly the last ever ground sloth species to go extinct.

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National Forest Corporation (Chile)

The National Forest Corporation or CONAF (Corporación Nacional Forestal) is a Chilean private, non-profit organization, through which the Chilean state contributes to the development and sustainable management of the country's forest resources.

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Natural monument

A natural monument is a natural or natural/cultural feature of outstanding or unique value because of its inherent rarity, representative of aesthetic qualities or cultural significance.

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Otto Nordenskjöld

Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (December 6, 1869 – June 2, 1928) was a Finnish and Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer.

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Patagonia

Patagonia is a sparsely populated region located at the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Puerto Natales

Puerto Natales is a city in Chilean Patagonia.

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Punta Arenas

Punta Arenas (historically Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena.

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Saber-toothed cat

A saber-toothed cat (alternatively spelled sabre-toothed cat) is any member of various extinct groups of predatory mammals that were characterized by long, curved saber-shaped canine teeth.

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Smilodon

Smilodon is an extinct genus of machairodont felid.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_del_Milodón_Natural_Monument

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