Corrientes, the littoral
Iberá
One of the largest wetlands on the continent. Warm water, golden dorado and an unreasonable amount of wildlife.
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Iberá is water that has not decided whether it is a lake, a marsh or a plain. Floating islands move with the wind, channels open and close between seasons, and almost everything that lives there is visible from a boat at close range.
The fish people come for is the golden dorado: heavy, aggressive and hard on tackle. It is warm-water fishing, physical and frequently humid, and nothing about it resembles a Patagonian morning.
The region has also become one of the more serious rewilding stories in South America, which means the wildlife is both abundant and genuinely wild. For travellers who are not fishing, that is often the part that sticks.