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Portillo is a ski resort in South America, located in the Andes mountains of Chile. In the Valparaíso Region, it is 61 km (38 mi) from Los Andes, the nearest city, and 160 km (100 mi) by vehicle from Santiago. Its hotel sits at an elevation of 2,880 m (9,450 ft) above sea level, and the highest lift reaches 3,310 m (10,860 ft). The lowest lift ...
The Sendero de Chile trail runs 18 km from the Serrano Conaf lodge up along the western side of Lake Pehoé, via Las Carretas campsite and Mirador Pehoe lookout, ending at the Pehoe Conaf lodge, [48] and offers views of the Cordillera del Paine, Grey Glacier and Lake Pehoé. The Cordillera del Paine and Lake Pehoé
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In order to ease the dependence on the only tunnel in the area and to permit year-round crossing, two lower tunnels have been proposed. One of them is the Túnel Juan Pablo II ("John Paul II Tunnel"), which would be constructed at an altitude of between 2,250 and 2,720 m (7,382 and 8,924 ft), 20 km (12 mi) long, to join the towns of Horcones, Argentina and Juncal, Chile.
The royal Inca road entered Chile from Bolivia through what is now the international border crossing of Tambo Quemado (Quechua tampu inn, [5] Spanish quemado burnt, "burnt inn") on the Bolivian side and Chungara on the Chilean side, while a twin branch that runs parallel to it follows the coast from Peru and passes mostly through lower lying terrain.
Laguna del Inca (Spanish pronunciation: [laˈɣuna ðel ˈiŋka]) is a lake in Valparaíso Region, Chile, close to the border with Argentina. Portillo ski resort is located at the southern end of the lake, near Chile Route 60. The stream that drains the lake is a tributary of the Juncalillo River, which flows into the Juncal River.
The Greater Patagonian Trail is an unofficial long-distance path in Chile and Argentina created in 2014. It runs south from Santiago , Chile, for 3,000 km (1,850 mi), [ 1 ] and crosses five regions of Patagonia: Central Andes , Alto Bío Bío , Andean Araucanía , Valdivian Forest , and Patagonia Aysén . [ 2 ]
The Transandine Railway (Spanish: Ferrocarril Trasandino) was a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge combined rack and adhesion railway which operated from Mendoza in Argentina, across the Andes mountain range via the Uspallata Pass, to Santa Rosa de Los Andes in Chile, a distance of 248 km.