Patagonie is located in the south of the
country and extends to the Southern point from Argentina.
Chile and Argentina divide the territory of Patagonie which
is characterized as being a vast area of glaciers, parks and
natural reserves.
It is also the place of meeting, inter alia, of the whales,
penguins, and sea lions.
Since Calafate, the visitor will be able to
discover, the "lagoon of the swans", reserves ornithological
where flamingos abound, ducks, swans with collars black, will
hérons, wild gooses and thrushes. But also, with only
with one about fifteen kilometers of Calafate, one will find
the caves of Gualichu, singular geological formation worked
by the winds of Patagonie.
The port of Comodoro Rivadavia is the ideal starting point
for one of the most fantastic sites of Patagonie Bosques petrificados,
wood petrified.
Petrified wood, in a lunar landscape, is consisted the outcrop
of wood fossils which form a true layer because of their size
and their concentration. These trees were petrified on the
spot even where they formed an imposing forest here 60 million
years.The two most impressive lakes are the lakes Viedma and
Argentino.
The followers of trekking and excursions in mountain will
risk themselves to the lake Viedma and with the mount Fitz
Roy, these forwardings must be done in summer (November-March),
because the winter the temperatures oscillate between -10°
and 20° C.
In Lago Argentino come to die several glaciers,
these arms are true fjords of an incomparable beauty. Every
approximately three years, the glacier lets water infiltrate,
undermines interior, and its fracture, with its whole sides
damaging itself in the lake, is an unforgettable spectacle,
imposing pieces are detached from the glacier to form as much
iceberg in blue water lake.
Between
the snow-covered tops and the splendid lakes of the Andes
of the South, to 1650 km of Buenos Aires, Bariloche, is, for
Latin-American the, synonymous one with ski and sports of
mountain.
But Bariloche is not only one winter sports resort; It is
the principal city of the National park Nahuel Huapi, one
of the most formidable sets of lakes, of forests and mountains,
which will fill with wonder the travellers, whatever the season
of the year.
