Coyhaique National Reserve lies five kilometers from the plaza and exists for a reason almost no one mentions: the fires of the settlement era left the slopes at the mercy of erosion. Four lagoons, trails named after trades, and the whole city in view.
Penguins, whales, condors and huemul deer. Where they are, when, and why the distance you’re asked to keep isn’t a formality.
On Isla Navarino there are forests that fit on a stone. Omora Park invites you to look at them up close, hand lens in hand, in a region that holds more than five percent of the world’s moss and liverwort species.
A giant sloth, a hide that ended up in London and a Bruce Chatwin book that made it world famous. What’s actually known about one of Patagonia’s best-known caves, 25 kilometers from Puerto Natales.
They look like soggy pastures, but they are wetlands that store carbon and regulate water. What the peatlands of Aysén and Magallanes are, why the law bans peat extraction, and how to enjoy them without harming them.
A couple of hours on the water, a waterfront that remembers the Selk’nam, and a salt lagoon where microorganisms build structures related to some of the oldest fossils on Earth. How to make the most of a day in Tierra del Fuego.