Corridor: Southern l XII Región de Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena
Punta Arenas
Punta Arenas - Photos: Jorge González
he capital of the province of Magallanes is Punta Arenas, which comprehends from Cordillera del Paine on the north to Cape Horn on the south.
The cordillera de los Andes offers a scenery divided by big creeks crossed by channels that form interior seas, like gulfs Almirante Montt and Isla Riesco.
From Torres del Paine, the Andes turn their north south direction to end in the Beagle Channel with an east-west direction.
The province presents attractions offered by nature itself in the Strait of Magellan, Cerro de la Cruz, the penguin colony in Seno de Otway, the Forest Reserve Ferdinand Magellan, the National Park Pali Aike, and many other sites like museums and institutes at the end of the continent.
PUNTA ARENAS
3.090 km. south of Santiago, the capital of Chile, the urban area presents a population of around 115.000 inhabitants, with a commercial, cultural and social development that covers the Magellan territory.
Punta Arenas is by the Strait of Magellan, in Brunswich peninsula, and was once called "Sandy Point" by J. Byron, who discovered it in the XVII century.
Punta Arenas is the continental city farthest south in the world, and a supply port for the developing bioceanic traffic.
Among its main attractions are Museo Salesiano Mayorino Borgatello; the monument to the shepperd with his dog, his horse, and his sheep; the cementery; Instituto de la Patagonia, a regional history and resources center with the memory museum in the garden; the town theatre; square Muñoz Gamero with the sculpture in memory of the discovery of the Strait of Magellan by Ferdinand Magellan; and magnificent works conserving their traditions like the Gran Hotel Cabo de Hornos, public buildings, local companies, and the free tax area.
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he capital of the province of Magallanes is Punta Arenas, which comprehends from Cordillera del Paine on the north to Cape Horn on the south.
