Tierra del Fuego National Park

Argentina's southernmost protected area protects Andean-Patagonian forests where Andes Mountains meet with the sea in the Beagle Channel, which connects the Atlantic and South Pacific oceans.

The land of fires (Tierra del Fuego) name was given by the explorers when they saw the bonfires lit by the original inhabitants of the island, the Yámanas.

Tierra del Fuego National Park which was created in 1960, is a protected area located at the south-west of Tierra del Fuego province, next to the international border of the Republic of Chile. It protects 68,909
hectares of Los Andes Cordilera’s southermost extreme, on a range that goes from Injoo Goiyin o de Beauvoir, to the north of Fagnano lake and the Beagle Channel’s coastRead more