Los Glaciares National Park: World Heritage Site
Visit the protected area where one of the largest glaciers in the world is waiting for you.
Get ready to admire this show of nature. Slowly-moving frozen rivers. Ice blocks breaking away before your eyes. Glacial masses lying in the shape of bridges, dams and caves. In the province of Santa Cruz, Los Glaciares National Park, created to preserve the ice in the southern Andean-Patagonian forest and the Patagonian steppe, is waiting for you
Look at the charms of this place declared a World Heritage Site. Visit the Upsala and Spegazzini, Viedma and Perito Moreno glaciers: the latter, one of the largest in the world. Explore the Roca lake and the Chorrillo del Salto waterfall, the Torre and the Chaltén or Fitz Roy mountains, the Patagonian Ice Field and Del Desierto lake. Watch the condor and the black-chested buzzard-eagle, the huemul deer and the torrent duck, the puma and the red fox. In this world of ice, find life.
Geographic location: Province of Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia.
How to get there: via Ruta Provincial 11 from El Calafate (80 km). The city has an international airport.
Area: 7,269 sq km
Altitude: 800 meters above sea level (average).
Climate: Warm to cold, and humid. Heavy snowfall from June to September.
Recommended length of stay: 1 to 3 days.
Recommended clothing and gear: Warm clothes and sunscreen.