Several wildfires had burned at least 45,000 hectares of forest in Chubut Province, as of Thursday, as hundreds of firefighters in Patagonia continued to battle flames and prevent them reaching populated areas.

A brief respite brought by light rainfall earlier this week has improved conditions, but experts say the risk of further flare-ups remain.

Chubut’s Los Alerces National Park, an Andean forest known for its glacial lakes, has been th

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