<p><span style="color: #ffcc99;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alerce (<em>Fitzroya cupressoides</em>), measures near 3m. of diameter and would be more than 2000 years old. A whole luxuriant vegetation is protected in these places.<br /><br /><br /><em>Fitzroya </em>is a kind of the family of <em>Cupressaceae </em>(as <em>cypress</em>), who understands only a single species, <em>Fitzroya cupressoides</em> native of Andean mountains of central Chile and of neighboring regions of Argentina, where it is an important member of the valdivian rain forest.<br /></span></span></p>