Punta Arenas archivos - Turismo Chile

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...

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...

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...