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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 Paso Internacional Los Libertadores, also called Cristo Redentor, is a mountain pass [citation needed] in the Andes between Argentina and Chile. It is the main transport route out of the Chilean capital city Santiago into Mendoza Province in Argentina and so carries quite heavy traffic.
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 fjords and temperate rainforest of Pumalín Park Virgin temperate rainforest in Pumalín Park Pumalín Park is situated on the upper right corner of the map. Pumalín Douglas Tompkins National Park (Spanish: Parque nacional Pumalín Douglas Tompkins) [1] is a 402,392-hectare (1,000,000-acre) [2] national park in the Palena Province of Chile, created by Tompkins Conservation, which was ...
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
Cerro Castillo National Park is a nature reserve of Chile located in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region, south of Coyhaique. The park is named after Cerro Castillo, its highest mountain and main attraction. The Carretera Austral passes through the park.
Navigating through the fjords and channels of Chile is mostly done by vessels desiring to avoid the heavy seas and bad weather so often experienced on passing into the Pacific Ocean from the western end of the Strait of Magellan. The large full-powered mail steamers generally at once gain the open sea at Cape Pillar (at the west entrance of the ...
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] Because the trail traverses remote areas of the Andes, lacks signposts, and the infrastructure is limited, this is a very challenging long-distance ...