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In
this remote land, the Andes unfolds all its
magnificence and its beauty in its thousand-year-old
forests that cover the snow-covered peaks
and are reflected on the large lakes of transparent
water. The “Perito Moreno” Glacier,
the only one that grows in the world, marvels
the visitors offering a unique spectacle.
From the mountain range extends an uninhabited
desert plateau that slowly descends toward
the sea to arrive at the rustic “Patagonian”
coast, home to wolves and marine elephants,
penguins and all types of sea birds, from
where the Franca Whales can be sighted.
Well to the south we find “Tierra del
Fuego” and “Ushuaia”, the
southernmost city of the world.
http://www.patagonia.com.ar/
http://www.interpatagonia.com/
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| Parque
Nacional Lanin (Lanín National Park)
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The most
outstanding sights are: the volcano of the
same name, the “Lácar”,
“Huechulafquen” and “Paimún”
lakes, the picturesque city of “San
Martin de los Andes” and “Chapelco”,
one of the most traditional and important
ski resorts of the country.
http://www.patagonia-argentina.com/i/content/parques/parques2.htm
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| Parque Nacional Nahuel
Huapi (Nahuel Huapi National Park) and
Parque Nacional Lanín (Lanín
National Park) |
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| Ruta
de los 7 Lagos (Route of the 7 Lakes) |
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From
“San Martin de los Andes” to “Villa
Angostura” one travels through a sinuous
road among the mountains covered with forests,
visiting seven lakes of immense natural beauty.
http://www.patagonia-argentina.com/i/content/especial/7lagos.htm
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| Parque Nacional
Nahuel Huapi (Nahuel Huapi National Park) |
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The
lake of transparent water that gives name
to this park is surrounded by landscapes of
great beauty. On its banks you find the city
of “Bariloche”, an important cultural
and tourist centre and a few kilometres away,
the “Cerro Catedral”, other important
ski centres of the country.
http://www.enjoy-patagonia.org/bariloche...
http://www.ripioturismo.com.ar/ebrcnhuapinp.htm
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| Bariloche - Río
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Cerro Otto - Río
Negro |
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| Parque Nacional
Los Alerces (Los Alerces National Park) |
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to the city of “Esquel”, is a
national park with a forest of larches that
are more than 60 meters high and more than
3000 years old. |
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| Perito Moreno
Glacier - Santa Cruz |
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| Parque
Nacional Los Glaciares (The Glaciers National
Park) |
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This
park offers a monumental landscape, with 13
glaciers on the Atlantic side that descend
from the field of continental ice toward lakes
“Argentino” and “Viedma”,
among which the famous “Perito Moreno”
Glacier is found. Behind the glaciers, imposing
granite formations arise covered with forests
that form a unique scenario. The visitors
can travel in boats to have the best sight
of the natural spectacle that these immense
blocks of ice offer. Also ascent to the glaciers
and trekking can be carried out.
http://www.patagonia-argentina.com/i/andina/glaciares/perito.htm
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| Cerros
Torre and Fitz Roy - Santa Cruz |
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| Cerros
Torre and Fitz Roy |
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are two mountains that attract mountaineers
from the entire world, famous for their imposing
beauty and their difficulty. |
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| Ushuaia
& Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego |
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At
Ushuaia, the city at the end of the world,
the Museum of the End of the World and the
Maritime Museum as well as the virgin nature
that surrounds them can be visited and enjoyed.
From there a train leaves that reaches the
“Parque Nacional de Tierra del Fuego”,
where a great quantity of indigenous species
of fauna and flora are protected.
http://www.tierradelfuego.org.ar
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| Patagonic
steppe and Península de Valdés
- Chubut |
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| Península
de Valdés |
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It
is the most important nature reserve of the
Atlantic Patagonia, where numerous species
live together such as wolves and marine elephants,
penguins and sea birds of all types. Every
year between May and December, the Franca
whales come to fulfil their reproductive cycle
and may be observed by thousands of tourists
that can sometimes approach them to almost
touching distance in excursion boats.
http://www.patagonia.com.ar/ingles/seaandbeaches/valdespeninsula.php
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| Puerto
Madryn |
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| It
is an important tourist city with beautiful
beaches and nature reserves where large colonies
of animals and sea birds live. |
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| Nahuel
Huapi Lake - Río Negro |
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| Photos: Courtesy of
the Secretaría de Turismo de
la Nación |
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