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Cuevas Marmol
We took a boat tour out to Las Cuevas Marmol, or the Marble Caves, in Lago General Carrera, which is a large glacier-fed lake straddling the Chile/Argentina border (Argentina’s portion of this lake is named Lago Buenos Aires). From atlasobscura.com… Continue reading
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The Road to Amengual
Chilean Patagonia is in the Wet Andes, a zone of high precipitation of both snow and rain. The humid temperate climate of the southern Andes has allowed glaciers to develop due to high accumulation rates. Most of the precipitation is produced by… Continue reading
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Ventisquero Colgante Queulat
In Parque Nacional Queulat there is a natural phenomenon known as Ventisquero Colgante (the hanging glacier). The glacier only can extend down to where the valley it occupies ends at the top of a cliff. Every so often a part… Continue reading
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Termas del Ventisquero
Stopped at a sublime hot springs along Fiordo Puyuhuapi. Continue reading