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Patagonia

Central & South America

Patagonia
Austin Whittall, a self-made expert on Patagonian monsters, has generously allowed Aquabeasties to use the vast library of information he has gathered on the subject.  On his blog, Patagonian Monsters, Mr. Whittall regularly posts meticulously studied and analyzed information about cryptids in Patagonia, and over a couple years he has built a veritable encyclopedia on hidden animals in the region.  We owe him a million thanks for providing this knowledge which one can only find through diligent research in multiple sources (the internet doesn't come close to providing such information).  Through a lifetime of experience in and obvious deep appreciation for the beautiful South American region of Patagonia, Mr. Whittall has given armchair cryptozoologists and field explorers alike the opportunity to search for hundreds of monsters in the jungles of deep South America.

Patagonia is a region covering the southern parts of Chile and Argentina.  It stretches from the southernmost section of the Andes, east along the Río Colorado and all the way down to the tip of South America.  Patagonia is full of stark, rocky mountains and huge deep blue lakes--and it seems almost every lake in Patagonia has its own monster.  Lake serpents and plesiosaur-like monsters abound in the region, but Patagonia's most unique hydrocryptozoological attribute is its water bulls.  For centuries villagers have reported seeing bulls that inhabit the region's lakes.  One wonders what's so unusual about a bull that's standing in a lake, but often these bulls have unusual horns or even the hindquarters of a fish.

Water horses, or Calimayos, are also found throughout Patagonia, and the landmark lake cryptids of South America--El Cuero and Nahuelito--abound.

One of the oddest creatures to inhabit Patagonia is a leftover from thousands of years ago--the giant marine ground sloth.  Giant ground sloths died out several thousand years ago, but many believe that some still stalk the jungles of Latin America, and in Patagonia Austin Whittall alleges that there may be a marine variety.


El Cuero
Lago de Las Rocas Monster
Lago Esquel Creature
Lago Lacar Monster
Lago La Plata Creatures
Lago Lolog Creatures
Lago Maihue Monsters
Lago Nonthue Creatures
Lago Paimun Creature
Lago Pueyrredón Monster
Lago Tar Monsters
Lago Todos Los Santos
   Creature
Lago Vichuquen Monster
Lago Vidal Gormaz Monster
Lago Villarrica Monster
Lago Vintter / Palena
   Creature
Laguna Tagua Tagua Monster
Lake Horses / Calimayos
Lakooma
Lampalagua
Long-necked Seals
Marine Ground Sloths
Maripill
Nahuelito
Negros del Agua
Patagonian Hippopotamus
Patagonian Plesiosaur
   Llanquihue Plesiosaur
   Lago Plesiosaurio Monster
Patagonian Water Bulls
   Lake Lacar Bull
Pulau Tiga Plesiosaur
Río Aluminé Monster
Río Deseado Monster
Río Plate Sea Serpent
Río Tamango Monster
Río Senguer Monster
Río Toltén Creature
Saapaim
Strait of Magellan Sea
   Monster
Sucuriju Gigante / Giant
   Anaconda
Trehuaco
Walichus
Water Trauco

http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/10/miocene-south-america-map.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/01/swimming-otters-mistaken-for-monsters.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/05/lake-monsters-are-dakosaurs-not.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/03/increased-death-of-whales-in-patagonia.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/02/patagonia-environmental-change-and.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2010/02/cryptid-maths-statistical-probability.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/12/deer-boars-and-lake-monsters.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/12/patagonian-lake-monsters-sustainability.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/12/lake-monsters-origin-of-their-habitat.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/12/lake-monsters-origin-of-their-habitat_03.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/11/swimming-deer.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/11/scales-no-just-wet-fur-otters-are-not.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/10/patagonia-origin-of-name-and-broad.html
http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-patagonian-monsters.html

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