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Inhabited through thousands of years
by the tehuelches indians, this area started to have value when
the european discovered its big extensions of lands suitable for
the raising of sheeps. Like this precarious markets, hotels and
manor houses were being installed.
In 1937 this area is named Los
Glaciares National Park. It covers an aproximated surface of 600.000
hectares. Of this great field
of ice 47 glaciers detache, between them: Marconi, Viedma, Moyano,
Upsala, Agassiz, Bolado, Onelli, Peineta, Spegazzini, Mayo, Ameghino,
Moreno and Frias, all these belonging to the atlantic basin.
One of the world wonders. Because of its attraction, its glacielogical
and geomorfological interest, and part of its fauna in danger
of extinction, the UNESCO declared the glaciers as Point of World
Heritage in 1981.
The park comprises a scenario of mountains, lakes and forests,
including a vast part of the Andes Mountain Chain, practically
covered of ice and snow in the west and the arid patagonic
steppe in the east. But, without a doubt, it hegemonizes the
attention the field of patagonic ice, which its layer it´s
the biggest in the world after the Antartica. The fields, also
known as continental patagonic ice, occupy in total an aproximate
surface of 2.600 km2 and they represent more than the 30% of
the protected area. Of thsese icy extensions, 47 major glaciers
are detached, from which 13 flow in the atlantic basin. As
well, there are 200 glaciers of minor magnitude, independent
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The Perito
Moreno Glacier it owes its name to the argentinian explorer
Francisco Pascasio Moreno, who in spite of his intense explorations
and researches never got to know the glaciar that carries his
name. This glacier, unique in our planet, with 260 km2 of surface
and a height of 60 meters is kept because of the constant snowfalls
making up for the losts that the breaks and melts cause, and
the breaking: incredible natural phenomenon produced when the
glacier touches the Magallanes Peninsula interrupting the draining
of the Lago Rico to the Lago Argentino. The water preasure with
the continent makes blow up its immense structure, pruducing
a spectacle that because of its surprise gets to be contemplated
by very few people in its culminating moment, lasting its complete
process almost a week. The last one occured in March of 2006.
Entrance gateway to the Los Glaciares National Park the city of
El Calafate, typical picture, surrounded by lake and mountains.
Its infrastructure spread in the slopes of the hill, in the cord
surrounding the Bahía Redonda, in front of the Lago Argentino
and placed along its main Libertador Avenue. Elan Hotel is placed
in the middle of Bahía Redonda with the best view to the
lake and on Libertador Avenue.
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