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	TRIPS TO CHILE: GLACIER SAN RAFAEL Geographic location: One is in Field North Patagónico the Ice, to 47º of South latitude and 73º of west longitude, in XI the Region of Aysén. Climate: The climate humid and is relatively tempered, with an annual temperature of 8ºC of average and precipitations that reach, in the zones of greater height, 5,000 annual mm. In the south of the Mountain range of the $andes two ice fields are located: the North Patagónico, of 4,200 km2s, that is completely in Chile, and Field South Patagónico the Ice, of 13,000 km2s, by which it crosses the international limit Argentina. Fields Patagónicos the Ice are oldest of the world. From immense the two air they seem ice Lagos that fills several valleys with thousands of squared kilometers of ice and glacier. Both frozen plateaus are surpluses of the great freezing happened in the austral part of the continent, whose final backward movement began 10,000 years ago. The Hielo Field Patagónico Norte (CHPN) constitutes a unique climatologic phenomenon in the world, considering that is the same latitude that Switzerland. This enormous mass glacier has been conserved due to the extremely humid and cold climate of the zone. Open pie in the Thirties, this frozen high plateau lodges in its interior great amount of hills covered with the ice, highest of which, San Valentin, with 4,060 ms, it is the maximum summit of the austral Patagonia. A glacier is a great mass of ice that slides slowly by action of the gravity. To the south of Aysén Port, the glacier San Rafael flows towards the west, falling to the sea in the Lagoon San Rafael, shows of the imposing beauty of the austral nature. It is the glacier next to Ecuador and one of most spectacular of Chile. Some times happen loosenings of their ice wall, that fall to the water in the middle of the roars of defrosting, and float in them. The resulting icebergs or icebergs, in slow drift, present/display transparencies of blue green crystallines and. The color of the ice must to the major or minor contained of air and impurities and to the compaction; the more compact ice without impurities and has a beautiful celestial color. By the environs penguins swim and juguetean, birds and from Leon sailors. At present, the glacier advances about 400 meters per year, but also it backs down 500, consequently it suffers a loss of around 100m. The integral Earth heating is powerfully affecting the ice. The rupture of the Glacier San Rafael attracts visitors worldwide who converge, at certain times of the year, in the Lagoon San Rafael to admire this imposing and moving natural spectacle. The hundreds of icebergs that sail in the zone, some of which thousands of tons weigh, constitute attractive an inescapable one. Requirement: A certain adventurous spirit and good disposition before the possible climatic unforeseen expenses. BERNARDINE NATIONAL PARK OR' HIGGINS- MOUNTAIN GLACIER Geographic location: One is between the XI and XII Regions of Chile. Surface: 3.525.901 hectares Field South Patagónico Ice is a unique place in the planet, where is the greater ice extension - fresh water reserves of the world outside the poles. The Hielo Field Sur (CHS), to a large extent covered by National park Bernardine O´Higgins, is made up of a infinity of blizzards and glaciers; among them, the glaciers Balmaceda and Serrano, like some famous mountain summits like the FitzRoy or the Hill Tower. The Bernardine National Park Or' Higgins is the greater National Park of Chile. In him the Balmaceda Glacier, and Serrano can be visited, besides the Glacier Pío XI, the greatest glacier of all the South hemisphere, with a surface of 1,265 km2s approximately. Glaciers Balmaceda and Serrano: Both glaciers comprise of the South Ice Field. The Balmaceda Glacier, is a hanging glacier of 2035 meters, that directly deposits its icebergs in the Last Fiord Hope and that, like the majority of glaciers of the world, is for more than 15 years in backward movement process. To the Mountain Glacier it is acceded walking from the Wharf; it is possible to be arrived at the foot of the same glacier, through a wonderful native forest and by the shore of the lake. He is not one of the giants of the Patagonia, but that is one of most beautiful. Essential: Impermeable shoes or boots of trekking, impermeable jacket and pants and impermeable knapsack.

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  Aracaunía
  Archipelago
  Juan Fernandez (Island
  Robinson Crusoe)
  Austral highway
  Desert San Pedro of
  Atacama
  Ski in Opening
  Glaciers San Rafael and
  Serrano
  Island of Chiloé
  Island of Passover
  Copper mine
  Chuquicamata
  National park Magdalena Island
  Lagoon of Laja (P.N.)
  Lauca (National Park)
  Made snow-white Three Crossings (P.N.)
  Queulat (National Park)
  Towers of the Paine (P.N.)
  National reserve
  Pinguinos de Humboldt
  Santiago of Chile
  Tierra Del Fuego
  Valparaiso
  Valley of Elqui
  Osorno volcano in Port Twigs
  Villarrica volcano in Pucón

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TRIPS TO CHILE: GLACIER SAN RAFAEL AND SERRANO

TRIPS TO CHILE:
GLACIER SAN RAFAEL AND SERRANO