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DIENTES DE NAVARINO CIRCUIT

The Dientes de Navarino circuit is the southern trekking route of the world, surrounding the chain of hills of the Dientes, whose steep summits are over 1,000 meters high. This way the trekking is in the middle of an imposing mountain landscape dominated by frozen lagoons, snowed horns, rock slopes and passes with striking view of the Beagle Channel and the south side of the island. In this zone it is possible to appreciate beautiful phenomenon link to the snow melting, such as the birth of torrents and underground rivers. The bird population and the fauna decrease with the height, however is more frequent the sighting of condors.

The mountain route is not hard for walkers in good shape, although the climate conditions are absolutely determinant to the feasibility of the circuit. This scene is ideal for the practice of mountain climbing, rambling and rock climbing, as testified by some tourists interviewed in the place.


Dientes de Navarino Circuit
Length : 4 days at least. 5 days recommended.
Distance: 53 Km.
Difficulty : Average - High
Point of start : Puerto Williams
Point of end: Puerto Williams
Season : December to March


CIRCUIT LA BANDERA HILL

This interesting tour begins in Puerto Williams, specifically at "La Virgen" waterfall, located 3 km. from downtown, and it lasts approx. 4 hours (round trip).

At the cascade begins the trail, going into the wood of lenga (Nothofagus pumilio), eastbound. The trail is well demarcated with painted marked trees to guide the way (there is another 4 to 5 days trekking circuit recently opened that surrounds the Dientes de Navarino). In a continuous, steep and attractive zigzag, the limit of the wood is reached in 20 to 40 minutes, white posts mark this stretch in straight line towards the ante-summit of the hill, which is reached 20 minutes later. At 610 meters over the Beagle, the sight is wonderful. If you can see the preceded and besides you can appreciate some lagoons of the mountain chain called Dientes de Navarino, then you are on the top of La Bandera hill.



Cape Horn extension Puerto Williams

This flight starts in Punta Arenas to Cape horn, where it is possible to appreciate in all its magnitude the joint of islands that make up this National Park. As proof of the passing of man for such challenging place, it may be seen a monument built to commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the Discovery of America, erected by the Chilean section of the brotherhood of captains of the Cape Horn, the "CAPHORNIERS". The sculpture represents a flying albatross and was erected in memory of all nations seamen who lost their lives fighting the inclemency of the Chilean sea.
The flight allows to gaze a wonderful sight of Darwin mountain chain and Beagle Channel, named after the British vessel on which captain Robert Fitz Roy sailed in 1826 the southern territory baptizing channels and islands with his officers names.

Cruises from Williams

Fuente: www.victory-cruises.comIt is possible to sail on pleasure cruisers from Puerto Williams to fiords and channels of Tierra del Fuego. On these cruises you will be able to know the legendary Cape Horn, that marks the last extreme of the American continent. In this point Pacific and Atlantic oceans joints, showing the pushing force of the two biggest masses of water of the planet.







MARTIN GUSINDE MUSEUM



Excellent museum with history of the Yaganes and graphic samples of local natural resources. Gusinde was a worldwide famous anthropologist and a priest of the Divine Verb order that worked among the Yaganes and Onas from 1918 to 1923.


PUERTO WILLIAMS CHURCH

It outstands over the other buildings by its peculiar external style. It bears the name "Our Lady of the Carmen" because it was inaugurated with the enthronement of the image of the Virgin of the Carmen, on October 18th of 1967.

The church also has the Virgen of the Sealers, name given to an image of Our Lady of the Carmen because the men that took hazards in these remote regions in fragile boats were mostly seal hunters.


UKIKA VILLAGE

Located 2 km. from Puerto Williams it is an historical attraction because lives there the last descendants of the Yamana people, moved from Mejillones, Robalo and Puerto Truco.


MEJILLONES COVE

Located 30 km. west of Puerto Williams. It was the last native redoubt of the province, inhabited by nearly a hundred representatives and descendants of Yagan people from the third decade of last century until 1966 and 1967 when the dying population was moved to Ukika Village, outside Puerto Williams.


"OMORA" ETHNO-BOTANICAL PARK

The "Omora" park is located 5 km. from Puerto Williams. In it may be seen the botanical richness of the area, melted with the Yagan culture. Its is an outdoor classroom, food for students and school and university teachers and for visitors interested in Yagan nature, landscapes and culture. A natural laboratory to study the ecology of the southern woods of the planet, including process and effect of the global change, in Cape Horn commune. A public space to rehearsal coexistence based on solidarity and respect among the different human beings and the different biological species.


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