Articles in Punta Arenas

How to get to Punta Arenas?
(Reads: 1416, since 26-Ene-2004)

Punta Arenas is 3,090 km from Santiago and 2,286 km from Puerto Montt. You can get there: By Air: There are daily ...

Where to go in Punta Arenas?
(Reads: 1527, since 26-Ene-2004)

Plaza Muñoz Gamero The square was declared a “Typical Zone” in 1991. In the center there is a bronze sculpture, inaugurated ...

Attractions around Punta Arenas
(Reads: 1556, since 26-Ene-2004)

Pingüinera Seno Otway This penguin colony is located 65 km north of Punta Arenas, in the Otway Sound. The 6,000 Magellanic ...

Porvenir
(Reads: 780, since 26-Ene-2004)

This little city, with a population of approximately 6,400 inhabitants, lies across the Magellan Straits from Punta Arenas, ...

Cerro Mirador Sky Resort
(Reads: 2859, since 26-Ene-2004)

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

Los Pingüinos Natural Monument
(Reads: 1868, since 26-Ene-2004)

Located 35 km from Punta Arenas in the Magellan Straits, Los Pigüinos consists of two islands with a total area of 97 ...

Isla Magdalena National Park
(Reads: 5298, since 26-Ene-2004)

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

Laguna Parrillar National Park
(Reads: 1651, since 26-Ene-2004)

This reserve, 52 km south of Punta Arenas, covers an area of 18,414 hectares and was created in 1977. The reserve is ...

Alberto de Agostini National Park
(Reads: 2181, since 26-Ene-2004)

The park lies 80 sea miles southwest of Punta Arenas, in a mountainous area of which the main feature is the Cordillera ...

Pali Aike National Park
(Reads: 3738, since 26-Ene-2004)

This National Park, covering some 5,000 hectares, was created in 1970 and is also known as ‘The Devil’s Lava Flow’. It is ...

Magallanes National Reserve
(Reads: 1624, since 26-Ene-2004)

Covering a total of 13,500 hectares, the Reserve was created in 1932 and is located on the Península de Brunswick, 7 km from ...

Fuerte Bulnes
(Reads: 833, since 26-Ene-2004)

Located 60 km from Punta Arenas on Ruta 9 Sur, this fort was founded in 1843 under the government of Manuel Bulnes Prieto as ...

History of Punta Arenas
(Reads: 1763, since 26-Ene-2004)

Punta Arenas was founded in 1849 as a military fort to reinforce the Chilean claim to sovereignty over the Magellan Straits ...

The Alacalufe People
(Reads: 227, since 26-Feb-2010)

A pre-Columbian people who lived in the coastal zone between the Golfo de Penas and the Straits of Magellan. They called ...

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