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Ushuaia, the capital of Tierra del Fuego Province, is 11 km (6.8 mi) from the park. [6] [9] The park can be reached by car or by train. The southern terminus of the Pan-American Highway is located within the park, as is the El Parque station of the End of the World Train. Tierra del Fuego National Park, Argentina
It is the narrowest part of the Strait between the continent and the island of Tierra del Fuego. The sound was named Primera Angostura (Spanish for First Narrows) as it was the first narrows of the strait that ships met when sailing through the strait from east to west. The ferry company Transbordadora Austral Broom S.A. operates across the ...
The western part of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, about two-thirds including its many islands, is part of Chile, and the eastern part is part of Argentina. [1] The southernmost extent of the archipelago, Cape Horn, lies just north of latitude 56°S. The earliest-known human settlement in Tierra del Fuego dates to approximately 8,000 BC. [2]
The most visited destinations in Argentine Tierra del Fuego include Ushuaia, the Tierra del Fuego National Park and the Tren del Fin del Mundo, Fagnano Lake, the Museum of the End of the World, the Beagle Channel, the Les Eclaireurs lighthouse, the old jail, and South Staten Island. The Antarctic Peninsula is a tourist destination.
The parks cover a very varied set of terrains and biotopes, from Baritú National Park on the northern border with Bolivia to Tierra del Fuego National Park in the far south of the continent. The Administración de Parques Nacionales (National Parks Administration) is the agency that preserves and manages these national parks along with Natural ...
Harberton, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Windswept tree, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile – "The wind only blows from the west". The Magellanic subpolar forests (Spanish: Bosque Subpolar Magallánico) are a terrestrial ecoregion of southernmost South America, covering parts of southern Chile and Argentina, [2] and are part of the Neotropical realm.
Mount Darwin (Spanish: Monte Darwin) is a peak in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego forming part of the Cordillera Darwin, the southernmost range of the Andes, just to the north of the Beagle Channel. It is 2,438 m (7,999 ft) high.
The park is located south of the Azopardo River and stretches from the Darwin Range to the Argentine border and from the Beagle Channel to Fagnago Lake. Yendegaia creates a contiguous ecological corridor between Chile's Alberto de Agostini National Park and Argentina's Tierra del Fuego National Park. The landscape is composed of mountains ...
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