Through the broken up geography of the Chilean Patagonia it is possible to set out for a trip by Patagonian channels, from Puerto Montt to Puerto Natales, dodging islands and peninsulas, gazing fiords, glaciers and Patagonia vegetation. .

The zone denominated Patagonian Channels begin (from north to south) at the ADALBERTO channel and TEMPANO fiord (in the border of Regions of Aisen and Magallanes) and goes down including all the SOUTH PATAGONIAN ICE FIELD ZONE by the west and all the channels and fiords of Ultima Esperanza province by the east. The zone reaches up to PEEL fiord that borders by its north coast the Bernardo O'Higgins National Park.

Among the more outstanding glaciers we may find the PIO XI glacier and the GEIKE glacier.

RUNNING THE CHANNELS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH

The entrance to the PATAGONIAN CHANNELS zone is through Messier channel until Puerto Eden (where lives the last people of the natives Chilean Alacalufes), at the east of South Patagonia Ice Fields through the Paso del Indio. Continuing the journey towards the southern zone, you will navigate by the Paso del Indio, Grappler, Wide, Concepcion and Sarmiento channels. In this point, and at your left, is the Bernardo O'Higgins National Park and behind it, the Torres del Paine National Park.

On the way it may observed the sinking of the Costa mountain chain at the Taitao peninsula, and the breaking up of the Andes mountain chain after the Bernardo O'Higgins, al this accompanied by a jungle vegetation of lengas, coigues and nirres.

Source: SERNATUR Magallanes