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Places of interest > Chilean Patagonia
Discovering the Patagonia
The Patagonia, wraps you around and hypnotizes you. The majesty of its ice white mantles and the green of its forests seduce everyone who visits it.We have selected the best attractions, activities, pictures, and practical tips of the most interesting places in the Patagonia. We invite you to discover them:
Puerto Natales
In a slight slope… is the picturesque and beautiful city of Puerto Natales, capital of the province of Última Esperanza, founded in 1911 that only has 17,000 inhabitants. Access point to the Patagonia, this city is one of the most important tourist centers within the region.
Punta Arenas
Close to the very end of the world is located the city of Punta Arenas, capital of the region of Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctica, more than 3,000 kilometers south of Santiago. A unique place...
Torres del Paine National Park
Morning reds, day blues. A color fan reflecting the magnificent ices that make up Torres del Paine National Park, with a surface area of 242,242 hectares.
Tierra del Fuego
This remote and cold island that falls off from America and that is shared by Chile on the west and Argentina on the east, which names comes from its ancient inhabitants of the Ona and Yagan native tribes, who kept the campfire burning on a constant basis for the purpose of protecting themselves from the southern cold weather.
Puerto Aysén
This port that was once reached by ships and ocean liners today is only a port for fishing boats, which makes it a real fishing village.
Puerto Williams
In the southernmost corner of America is Puerto Williams, capital of the province of the Chilean Antarctica, an insular territory that ends up broken up in the Cabo de Hornos and located North of the Navarino island.
Puerto Edén
A real paradise; a shelter for the population of surviving kaweskar or alacalufe native Indians; Puerto Edén, a small Patagonian village established in 1930 by the Chilean Air Force as base for sea planes flying from Puerto Montt to Punta Arenas.
Cabo de Hornos
Until the construction of the Panama channel, Cabo de Hornos was the only way of union between the Atlantic and the Pacific, between America and Europe. This place, a sea joining point where the American continent ends, is located 703 kilometers from Punta Arenas and 165 from Puerto Williams.
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