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CALAFATE:
located on the south margin of the Argentino lake 320 kilometers
away (to the northwest) of Río Gallegos in Santa
Cruz province. If
the tourist comes traveling north-south by the national
route #3 passing Piedra Buena by 40 kilometers (approx.)
he can take the provincial route #9 toward the west (no
asphalt), to cross the steppe and to be saved several kilometers
to arrive to El Calafate. It is a village with more than
5000 inhabitants divided in two by the stream of the same
name.
It was a
place frequented by the villagers that transported the
wool from the estancias (ranchs) of the area and in December
7 1927 El Calafate commune was created. Today the main
activity is the benefit of tourist services and there are
hotels and hostels of very good quality, diverse types
of nautical trips that takes the tourist to the base of
the
glaciers, cavalcades by spectacular paths, estancias visits,
fishing in the rivers and lakes of the surroundings, etc..
This destination is certainly included within our Patagonia
Tours.
Calafate is called the capital of the glaciers given its vicinity to the The
Glaciers National park that was created in 1937 and declared by
the
United
Nations
in 1981 ‘World Patrimony of the Humanity’. This National
Park embraces 450,000 hectares where 13 glaciers descend to the lakes Viedma
and Argentino.
All are beautiful but that of an extraordinary and imposing beauty is without
any doubt the glacier Perito Moreno located in the arm Rico of the Argentino
lake which presents a wall 60 meters high. Traveling the North arm of
the
same
lake you can visit one another the glaciers Upsala, Onelli and Spegazzini, going
by the lagoon of the floes. El Calafate, Patagonia Argentina.
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