Costanera Sur, the winter color lagoon

There are names that we, Europeans or North Americans, associate to exoticism, heat and sun. It is often the case of Buenos Aires and Argentina. That is to forget that this country of 2750000 km2 which stretches from the 21° of southern latitude to the accesses of the Antarctic, has almost all climates: wet heats of Mesopotamia (see article on the Province of Misiones) to the extreme colds of the Santa Cruz Provincia.
Buenos Aires is at the level of Casablanca or Kabul in the southern hemisphere. But its climate presents many similarities with that of the Mediterranean areas : a sky of color identical to that of Provence cleaned by a dry and strong wind in summer (the Pampero), heavy rains at the autumnfall and temperatures ranging between 0°C and 10°C in winter.
The very dense vegetation for a town of this size dyes with russet-red at the first colds. The leaves of the trees which border the avenues fall very quickly. But the many species of trees with persistent leaves do not give this impression of desolation which one can feel in our cities or our campaigns in winter.

The effect of the cold on the vegetation which invaded the lagoon, behind Puerto Madero, offers a surrealist vision of this city almost always bathed sun.
Beyond obsolete Balneario Sur, stand indeed the ornithological reserve established on the bed of rubble provided by the building site of the large motorways of the city between 1978 and 1986. Several species of birds are there installed in the middle of blazing trees, of creole willows or alders of river. At this beginning of winter, the graminaceous ones, the vegetable species most widespread stand out against the russet-red grasses and skycrapers, while on the Rio, “buquebus" leave for Uruguay.

Ornithological reserve: Avenida Tristan Achaval Rodriguez 1550