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Getting Here
By air. From Buenos Aires to Río
Gallegos and El Calafate. Regional flights to Río Turbio, Perito
Moreno, Gobernador Gregores, Puerto Deseado, Puerto San Julián
and Puerto Santa Cruz.
By bus. From the City of Buenos Aires to Río Gallegos.
Further bus services from Río Gallegos to El Calafate, Río
Turbio, Puerto Natales (Chile) and Punta Arenas (Chile) and from Caleta
Olivia to Perito Moreno and Los Antiguos.
Distances: Río Gallegos is 2,640
Km away from Buenos Aires and 596 Km away from Ushuaia.
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Lodging and Accommodation
Number and category of accommodations. Caleta Olivia: 1 (3*). Comandante Luis Piedra Buena: 1 (3*), 1 (2*). El Calafate: 4 (4*), 16 (3*), 7 (2*), 4 (Apart). El Chaltén: 4 (2*), 1 (Apart). Julia Dufour: 1 (2*). Los Antiguos: 1 (3*). Puerto Deseado: 2 (2*). Puerto San Julián: 1 (3*), 1 (2*). Puerto Santa Cruz: 2 (2*), 1 (Apart). Río Gallegos: 2 (3*), 3 (2*), 3 (Apart). Río Turbio: 1 (3*).
Other lodging facilities. Gobernador Gregores, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Las Heras, Tres Cerros, Tres Lagos, Perito Moreno, Pico Truncado and 28 de Noviembre.
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Things to do
ADVENTURE TOURISM. Trekking, Andes mountaineering,
climbing ice fields and mounts Torre and Fitz Roy, rafting, canoeing,
horseback riding, archaeological trips, overland and photographic safaris.
SPORT FISHING. Sea fishing: salmon and
trout fishing in lakes and rivers.
SKIING. Valdelén Winter Sports
Center is just 4 Km away from Río Turbio.
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Places to visit
LOS GLACIARES NATIONAL PARK AND PERITO MORENO
GLACIER. Something you cannot miss during your visit in Argentina
is the Perito Moreno glacier, which, together with other twelve glaciers,
makes up the biggest sliding masses of ice and snow of Los Glaciares
National Park. This 5-Km.-wide glacier, which is 60 meters above Lake
Argentino, continues in advance. Throughout the year, ice towers detach
from the glacier and plunge into the water as small icebergs. Perito
Moreno glacier can be reached from El Calafate. Sailing across Lake
Argentino, among white and blue icebergs, you can see 50-Km.-long Upsala
glacier. Onelli and Agassiz glaciers can be admired after walking 1,5
Km from Onelli bay.
PERITO MORENO NATIONAL PARK. Park of great
paleontologic, archaeological and biologic value. There are eight lakes
chained by an interesting fluvial system and guanacos herds (a member
of the camel family lacking a dorsal lump).
BOSQUES PETRIFICADOS NATURAL MONUMENT. 130
million years ago, this area was covered by giant forests. Volcanic
eruptions took place simultaneously with the rising of the Andes mountain
range, burying the landscape with ashes. As time went by, trees were
fossilized and, later on, an authentic rock forest with trees of up
to 35 m. long and a diameter of 3 m. was unveiled by the action of the
wind and the rain.
CUEVAS DE LAS MANOS, AT THE UPPER PINTURAS RIVER.
In this amazing canyon we find one of the most significant displays
of cave painting in Patagonia: Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands)
receives its name from the human hand stencils appearing on the rocks,
and 9,300-year-old paintings of guanaco and ñandú (South
American ostrich) hunting.
Other places of interest: Río Gallegos,
administrative and commercial center. Laguna Azul, located inside the
crater of an extinguished volcano. Cabo Vírgenes and Isla Deseada,
inhabited by xerophilous vegetation and a Magellanic penguin continental
colony. Puerto Deseado and Puerto San Julián are ideal places
to watch sea birds and mammals in their natural habitat.
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Shopping
Handcrafts made of cooper, wood, leather, bone and crustaceans; pottery,
Tehuelche weaving, loom and wool weaving. Centro Artesanal in Río
Gallegos.
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Further information
Río Gallegos. Subsecretaría de Turismo de la Provincia de Santa Cruz: Av. Roca 863. Tel./Fax: (2966) 422702. E-mail: turismo@spse.com.ar. Dirección Municipal de Turismo: Av. Roca 835. Tel. (2966) 436917. E-mail: turismo@riogallegos.gov.ar.
El Calafate. Secretaría Municipal
de Turismo: Julio A. Roca 1004. Tel./Fax: (2902) 491090. E-mail: info@elcalafate.gov.ar
Puerto Deseado. Dirección Municipal
de Turismo: San Martín 1525 – Tel. (297) 15-6234351. Fax:
(297) 482248. E-mail: turismo@pdeseado.com.ar
Buenos Aires. Casa de Santa Cruz, Centro
de Información Turística: Suipacha 927. Tel./Fax: (11)
4325-3098. E-mail: info@santacruz.gov.ar.
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