THE NORTH OF THE PATAGONIE
Patagonie corresponds to the southernmost part of the South American continent, it includes portions of Argentina and Chile. The mountainous and vast slopes flat which extend to the east from the watershed from the Atlantic find in Argentina, whereas Chile controls the long one and much narrower band which separates the mountains from the Pacific Ocean, at this point compressed by the fjords, the mountains and the fields of ice that displacements by overland route prove practically impossible on most of the territory concerned.
The weak density of the population and the rudimentary state of the highway network in addition contribute to cause an impression of insulation there one cannot more marked.
Coihaique is an attractive small town from which one devotes oneself to a whole panoply of activities, in particular the high-sea fishing, the hiking and the exploration of the fjords and glaciers.

This part of Chile contains two immense fields of ice, Campo de Hielo Norte (4400 km ²)… and the campo of Hielo On (13500 km ²).
The Andins peaks conceal moreover good number of high volcanos whose majority are covered with ice. Under the influence of the marine currents, the climate is done generally wet and fresh (averages of 7°C to 9°C), though seldom very cold.

THE CUS OF THE PATAGONIE
This ground of mountains and glaciers, channels and fjords, forests and breedings of sheep, close to thousands of uninhabited islands, to lie, isolated from all, beyond the last cuttings off of civilization.
It is only since the blaze of the worldwide markets of wool at the end of the 19 éme century that the south of Patagonie started to become populated to a significant degree. Before that, one found there primarily only one handle of tiny scattered communities of Amerindians of which there remain today only well few descendants.
Patagonie is not the exclusive fact of Chile. Its Argentinian portion, appears even broader, more punt and cleaner with the human settlement, it does not remain about it less than Patagonie Chilienne is haloed of a beauty seldom equalized on the surface of the sphere.
The agglomerations in the south of Patagonie are Puerto Natales, whose population is established with some 20.000 inhabitants, Porvenir with the Western point of the main island of Tierra del Fuego, and Puerto Williams, on the island of Navarino, the point more in the south of the Earth to being inhabited permanently.

The tourist attraction by far most important is Parks it Nacional Torres del Paine, honoured with covered with snow summits, lakes and more spectacular glaciers the ones than the others. But well of others discovered still await you, that they are the colonies of penguins to be visited, of panoramic cruisings on the ship canals, of the gauchos (cow-boys) keeping their herds as at old times, of the excellent occasions of fishing or the delicious feeling which the fact gets of finding itself at the end of the world.
The infrastructures of reception however anything primitive, since one with did not envisage comfortable hotels and tourist complexes, just as easily that a set of places of lodging at low price and houses of fishing distant from all.