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Capilla de Mármol (The Marble Chapel) This sanctuary is situated in the "Puntilla Capilla el Mármol" surrounded by the waters of Lake General Carrera. As its name suggests its main characteristic is the abundant marble which runs for 300 metres all the way down one side. Its actual location is 350 metres above...

The Chilean Antarctic

The Chilean territory in the Antarctic comprises an area of 1,267,723 km2, out of a total of 14,000...

Torres del Paine National Park

Comprising 242,242 hectares, it was created in 1959 and declared a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO...

Pali Aike National Park

This National Park, covering some 5,000 hectares, was created in 1970 and is also known as ‘The Devil’s Lava Flow’. It is 196 km north west of Punta Arenas. Its purpose is to protect an area of pampa with its population of guanacos, ñandúes and armadillos, set in what looks like a lunar landscape. There are low hills and...

Isla Magdalena National Park

Located in the Magellan Straits, about 35 km from the city of Punta Arenas, this wild area was made...

Alacalufe National Reserve

The reserve covers a surface area of approximately 2,320,000 hectares with scenery noted for low mountainous islands, channels and fiords. The climate is a moderately cold tundra type, with a high level of precipitation. There are distinct species of plant life such as grasses, bushes, coigües and peat. It has a large quantity of...

Cabo de Hornos National Park

The park includes parts of Tierra del Fuego, the Wollaston Archipelago, and the Hermite group of...

The Alacalufe People

A pre-Columbian people who lived in the coastal zone between the Golfo de Penas and the Straits of Magellan. They called themselves ‘kaweskar’, but their neighbours gave them the scornful nickname of alacalufes (‘mussel eaters’) because of their custom of eating shellfish. They lived principally by fishing. Their...

The Onas

These pre-Columbian people inhabited the archipelago of Tierra de Fuego. They arrived there by land 7000 years ago when the island was still connected to the mainland. They were a nomadic hunter- gatherer tribe whose main activity was hunting “guanaco” (a native camelid). Although they lived in a coastal zone they were...

Tehuelche Community

This pre-Columbus community occupied the Patagonian Steppe, located in southern Patagonia, from the river Santa Cruz (in Argentina) in the north, to the Strait of Magellan (in Chile) in the south. They called themselves ‘aonikenk’. The tehuelche people can be described as hunter gatherers, who were tall and lived a nomadic...

Cerro Mirador Sky Resort

This resort is inside the Magallanes National Reserve, 9 kilometres from Punta Arenas. It is set on...

Cueva del Milodón

24 km to the north of Puerto Natales, past Puerto Prat. This is a huge cave where in 1896 a piece of...

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