Tourism in Argentina the main attraction elephant seals, sea lions, Magellanic penguins and orcas are also well represented. Laguna del Carbon (the lowest geographical point in the Americas), Mount Fitz Roy, and the Petrified Forests National Monument, as well as the vast patagonian plateau. Overall Argentina has the following tourist circuits (north to south): Carnivals in Argentina are very important and usually take place during the last days of February (before the lent), at a time that remains still quite summer (summer in the Southern Hemisphere). Almost every carnival in Argentina comes from European carnivals in Spain and Italy, so it is spoken
Laguna del Maule (volcano) form the so-called Mariposa geothermal system discovered in 2009, whose temperature has been estimated on the basis of gas chemistry to be . One estimate puts the potential productivity of Laguna del Maule as an energy source at . Subduction of the eastern part of Nazca plate beneath the western margin of the South America Plate occurs at a rate of about , a process which is responsible for events such as the 1960 Valdivia earthquake and the 2010 Chile earthquake. This subduction process is responsible for the growth of the Chilean Andes and the volcanic and geothermal manifestations therein.