Gonfoterios

Gonfoterios Experience, Osorno, Chile

Commissioned by the municipality to plan interpretation fopr the new Pleistocene Park theme park on the banks of the Rivaer Damas in the city of Osorno in Southern Chile.

The park features full-scale replicas of the megafauna that roamed the region 15,000 years ago, most notible Gonfoterios ("Gomphotheres" in English) which are a taxonomic family of extinct elephant-like animals that died out around the time South America was first settled by man.

The idea of ??the sculpture park followed the discovery of fossil remains of "Gonfoterios" in 2007, in the paleontological site Pilauco Bajo. The park was inaugurated on July 15, 2011, by Mayor Jaime Bertin.