Isla de los Estados Natural Reserve
Next to the Lighthouse at the End of the world, visit a place where the temperature falls and emotions rise.
Are you ready for an adventure in an extreme place? Cross the Le Maire Strait and land on the Isla de los Estados Natural Reserve. Feel the thrill of watching a landscape as diverse as it is unique: irregular coastlines and abrupt edges, deep fjords and rock beaches, coves and bays, peatlands and forests, grasslands and waterfalls, snow-capped peaks and over one hundred and twenty fresh water mirrors: there, where the Andes Mountains merge with the ocean.
Do you enjoy watching plants? Here over one hundred and seventy species are waiting for you. And if you are fond of wildlife, watch sea lions and striated caracaras, upland geese and king cormorants, Amazon river dolphins and orcas, cachalots and whales. Did you know that this reserve is the main area of southern rockhopper penguin breeding worldwide? Come and discover it. Live this adventure in the province of Tierra del Fuego.
Geographic location: Province of Tierra del Fuego, Argentine Patagonia.
How to get there: the only way to access this area is sailing along the Beagle Channel eastbound from Ushuaia or along the Argentine Sea from Río Grande.
Area: 52,784 hectares.
Climate: cold and humid.
Recommended length of stay: 1 to 3 days.
Recommended clothing and gear: warm clothes as there are extremely cold temperatures and strong winds.