Things to do in PatagoniaWhat there is to do down here

Fifty kilometers of total self-sufficiency around the spires of the Dientes de Navarino.

Season: December to February

Four days between Las Horquetas and Villa Cerro Castillo, with the lake at the foot of the glacier.

Season: November to April

Brown and rainbow trout in rivers that rank among the most renowned in the world.

Season: October to May

Route 7 heading south: impossibly colored lakes, hanging glaciers, and gravel.

Season: November to March

Cerro Mirador, one of the few ski areas in the world with a view of the ocean.

Season: June to September

A full day through fjords to a lagoon full of icebergs, at the foot of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field (Campo de Hielo Norte).

Season: October to April

The classic boat trip from the Puerto Natales pier to two hanging glaciers.

Season: September to April

Sail where the Beagle passed with Darwin on board, and reach the end of the continent.

Season: December to March

Isla Magdalena, in the middle of the Strait, where a roped-off trail passes right by the nests of Magellanic penguins.

Season: October to March; some years, until mid-April

At Bahía Inútil, a hundred kilometers of gravel road from Porvenir, on an estancia (sheep ranch) in Tierra del Fuego.

Season: October to May; closed in winter

Omora Park, where you look through a magnifying glass at one of the planet’s greatest concentrations of mosses and lichens.

Season: October to April

Half-day trails in Coyhaique National Reserve, where the city ends and the forest begins.

Season: Year-round

No light pollution: the Southern Cross, the Magellanic Clouds, and, with luck, the aurora australis.

Season: March to September

Palaces from the wool boom, replicas of Magellan’s ship, and the most beautiful cemetery on the continent.

Season: Year-round

Dalmatian immigrants and Chilotes came to Tierra del Fuego with the gold and the estancias, and their surnames are still there.

Season: October to April

Six thousand years navigating the channels, told in the museum and by the community that is still there.

Season: Year-round

January and February: jineteadas (bronc riding), sheep shearing, asado al palo (meat roasted on a stake over an open fire), and chamamé folk music in the towns of the interior.

Season: January and February

The dish that defines Patagonia: hours over a slow fire and nothing but salt.

Season: Year-round

Magellan king crab (centolla), sea urchin, and southern hake, in season and caught locally.

Season: King crab: July to November

Coyhaique, Puerto Natales, and Punta Arenas have their own breweries, made with meltwater.

Season: Year-round

Hot springs at the edge of the Aysén Fjord, with Patagonian rain falling overhead.

Chile’s Antarctic capital: convention centers, daily flights, and an excursion no one forgets.

Season: Year-round