Trips to Chile

Location: Of Montt Port (X Region) to Yungay Port (XI Region)

Extension: 1,200 km

When to go: All the year

Sites of interest: Chaitén, Spas the Yellow, Palena River, Spas of Puyuhuapi, National Park Queulat, Coyhaique, Cisnes River, Pedro Lagoon Aguirre Bristle, Bertrand Port, Cochrane.

What to do: Flora and fauna, cavalcade, photographic montañismo, trekking, mountain-bike, safaris, kayac, fish.

The Place of Arms of Montt Port marks the beginning of the Austral Highway (Route 7), Chilean version of Route 66 of the United States, reason why it has of mysticism and adventure. It unites to the Tenth and Eleventh Region, finishing to the north of Towers of the Paine, in Yungay Creek - Region XI. Its construction began in 1976 and finished in 1996.

Although its outline is to a large extent continuous, in certain sections it is necessary to make transfers in hulls, to cross the openings of great fiords. since it is a land region extremely victims. Although it is a filled with rubble and drawn up well, sometimes narrow way, and has good concrete bridges, not yet exists good infrastructure of support, reason why the precaution is due to have to fill the gasoline tank of the car and to take cans of reserve if it is tried to make deflections to remote places. He is ideal to go of camping. The mochileros have good welcome, but the traffic in the Highway is not intense still.

The immense territory of the Patagonia can be included/understood better like two separated regions, divided by the South Ice Fields.

From the tourist point of view the Austral Highway has become one of attractive the most important ones of Chile, since it allows to accede to a territory of which it is much to discover: North Patagonia. This region includes great extensions of cold forest, national parks, glaciers, gigantic ice fields, lagoons, fiords, rivers and Lagos, in a zone practically uninhabited. It is an ideal zone to make tourism it ventures, it fishes, trekking, extreme sports, kayak, rafting and observation of flora and fauna in his wilder state

In addition it is possible to visit villorios cities and like Chaitén, Puyuhuaoi, Port Swans, Verde River, Coyhaique, Aysén, Ibañez River, Small Chile, Villa Or " Higgins and Cochrane, all of them with attractive singular
At the moment one works in the cross-sectional road network, constructing to the sections of Calm Port - Bay Exploratory and the Meeting - Port Raul Marin Balmaceda.

Here the port of Chaitén, a celebration for the senses, offers access to the North part of the Austral Highway, where rafting practices and fishes with fly, are realized cruises to glaciers and trips to the thermal sources of the islands.

To the south it is the city of Coihaique more, capital of the region of Aisén, ideal place to practice the fishing with fly and to organize excursions by earth to the South part of the Austral Highway, to the Fields of Ice and the General lake Carrera, deepest of South America, that is one of the main attractions in the way. Their coasts are bordered by green and leafy forests, and by far the snow-covered tips of surrounding mountains glimpse.

Towards the north, another essential experience consists of visiting the National Park Lagoon of San Rafael, to 225 kilometers to the southwest of Chacabuco Port. The access is realized solely by air or sea, since it is of the highway and the rest of the territory by the Field of North Ice, massive ice formation separated and glaciers.

Although it is expensive, the imposing landscape is worth the pain any cost, although it agrees to plan this visit in advance. The moving landscape of floating icebergs, surrounded by most spectacular of the regional fauna, like magallánicos penguins, marine albatrosses, ducks and wolves leaves a memory ineffaceable.

An ideal place to plan the strolls by this region is the calm center populated with Coyhaique. It constitutes a good departure point to visit the diverse parks of the region, since it has several services of aerial and terrestrial connection with diverse localities. Port Aysén, 32 kilometers to the north, is another interesting locality that allows to the visit to the National Park Magdalena Island or the National Reserve Lake the Towers.

The National Reserve Simpson River, to 37 kilometers of Coyhaique, is another infaltable shutdown in this patagónico route. The reserve must the name to the river crosses that it, one of the most venerated by the fishermen with fly. Also it is one of the favorites of the lovers of the flora and patagónica fauna. But perhaps most interesting it is than it combines in a same panorama rivers, valleys and guns.