The Magellan Strait zone includes the Strait itself, all the channels and fiords that surround Brunswick peninsula, including Otway gulf, Riesco island and Skyring gulf (western side of the peninsula) and the Magdalena Island, Pali Aike National Park up to coastal border of Punta Dungeness lighthouse (eastern side).

FUERTE BULNES AND PUERTO DEL HAMBRE

Located approx. 60 km. south of Punta Arenas. Mainly interesting by its historical importance, since Puerto del Hambre was the first Spanish colony in the coast of the Magellan Strait and Fuerte Bulnes the first Chilean settlement.

Today Fuerte Bulnes is a historical reconstruction of the first fort where Chile established the first Patagonian settlement and took possession of the Strait and adjoining lands (1843). It is located in the km. 60 of route 9 south, on an elevation of point Santa Ana, an hour and a half from Punta Arenas.

Puerto del Hambre is in the bank of Bahia Buena coast, where Captain Sarmiento de Gamboa founded the city King Don Felipe, on March of 1584. This attempt of Spanish colonization had tragic end: their inhabitants starved to death. Years later the English corsair Thomas Cavendish anchored in that place and finding only the rests of the old colony, rebaptized the place with the name of "Port Famine", Puerto del Hambre in Spanish, name that keeps until today.

CABO FROWARD CIRCUIT

Cabo Froward, at the south of Punta Arenas, Brunswick peninsula, is the last continental point of the American continent. The tour is done on a zodiac boat through the Strait until Cabo Froward, where is erected the Cross of the Seas.

KAYAK AND FISHING IN SAN JUAN RIVER

San Juan is located 60 km. south of Punta Arenas, the main urban center of Chilean Patagonia.San Juan is inside Laguna Parrillar Forest Reserve and its characteristic is the presence of peat bogs and woods.

San Juan River is used for kayak sailing because its quiet waters are ideal to learn this activity.

Besides, the river is a good place for sport fishing in a natural and peaceful environment.

NAVIGATION IN THE STRAIT

The Magellan Strait offers every kind of nautical activity, among them navigation by channels and fiords, navigation in zodiac boats to Cabo Froward, and kayak activities in strong-flowing rivers.

The Strait climate is temperate to cold and it is recomended to sail with appropriate clothing because of the strong swell in some zones.