Bahía Lomas

Bahía Lomas is a bay on the north of the island of Tierra del Fuego near the southern tip of South America.

[2] The bay has about 69 km (43 mi) of beach, a number of salt marshes and the largest area of tidal flats in Chile.

Above the high tide mark are muddy plains criss-crossed by channels, and these are backed by sandy areas.

[1] Other migratory and domestic species include the white-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis), the Magellanic plover (Pluvianellus socialis) and the Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis),[1] as well as Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii), the sanderling (Calidris alba), the rufous-chested plover (Charadrius modestus), the two-banded plover (Charadrius falklandicus), the whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus), the Magellanic oystercatcher (Haematopus leucopodus), the American oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) and the kelp gull (Larus dominicanus).

[4] Precipitation is very low in this area and the vegetation on the Patagonian steppe land is largely dominated by the grasses Festuca spp.,[4] while the saltmarshes are covered by succulent plants such as the glasswort Salicornia ambigua and the seablite Suaeda argentinensis.