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• PARQUE NACIONAL LOS GLACIARES WITH THE PERITO MORENO
A must for all visitors to Argentina is a visit to the Glacier Perito Moreno in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. It forms part of the Patagonian Continental Ice Field from which 13 glaciers descend on the Atlantic side to flow into the Viedma and Argentino lakes. The Perito Moreno glacier, 4 km wide and 60 m high above lake Argentino, is one of the few in the world which still advances forming a wall and containing the Brazo Rico waters. Every 4 or 5 years, the water pressure is so strong that it breaks into multiple icicles giving a spectacle that is truly impossible to explain and overwhelming. The continuous slides from its frozen walls astonish you at any time throughout the year. You reach it overland from El Calafate. You can sail along the Lago Argentino to the Upsala glacier with a surface of approximately 595 km², and to the Onelli glacier. |
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• PARQUE NACIONAL PERITO MORENO
This park is of great biological value. It protects the andean-patagonian rain forests and their fauna. It also has numerous pools of great beauty. |
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• "EL BOSQUE PETRIFICADO" - A NATURAL MONUMENT
It contains the largest petrified araucaria forests in the world. 150 million years ago volcanic eruptions caused the fossilization of the araucaria or pehuen trees. Today the landscape is sprinkled with fossilized trunks, some of them 35m long and 3m in diameter. |
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• RÍO PINTURAS
The land here is well known for its impressive cave paintings. In the Cueva de las Manos you can see hundreds of handprints and hunting scenes depicting guanaco and rhea hunts, a species dating back to 7,300 years b.C.
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• Other places of interest
Río Gallegos, the administrative and commercial centre. La Laguna Azul or the Blue Lagoon in the crater of an extinct volcano. Cabo Vírgenes and Isla Deseada where Magellan penguins live. |
