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 This National Park has an spectacularly beautiful landscape, trails qualified to do trekking, and thus travel through different scenarios of pampas, black magallanean forests, lakes and lagoons with icebergs and imposing glaciers, all of this surrounded by huge rocky masses that characterize the figure of the Torres del Paine.
Nirre and lenga forests cover the huemules, condors, nandues (South American ostriches) and guanacos. The park is located in the Magallanes Region and the Chilean Antarctica, which capital city is Punta Arenas. It is located at 3.090 km to the south of Santiago, and at approximately 3 hours and 45 minutes by plane.
Currently, this national park is the only one in the region that has the best infrastructure and facilities, tourist lodging (hotels, lodges, camping), not to mention the wide variety of guided excursions such as horseback riding, trekking, sailing, walks on ice and kayaking, among others. It has been declared biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. It has three accesses: Portería Sarmiento, Amarga and Blue Lagoon.
In CONAF’s headquarters (National Forest Corporation) a scale model orients visitors about the layout of this mountainous mass formation. It also gives details of the different excursion trails, climbing, and of the main areas to visit, activities that can be carried out and precautions to be taken. This administrative headquarter has a medical station with a nurse, a public telephone and Policemen patrols trained for mountain rescues.
The different excursions offer the possibility to enjoy a variety of landscapes and different ecosystems that embrace a luxurious flora and fauna, experience that will be the predilection of adventurers and tourists fond of trekking. These factors have been an ever increasing reason for the affluence of a great number of tourists from all over the world to visit this wonder of nature. In each circuit there are private refugees and campings, which offer services that, have to be paid, as well as free of cost refugees and campings. Camping can only be done in duly authorized places.
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