Argentina Tours & Travel | Tierra del Fuego National Park
The 155,700-acre Tierra del Fuego National Park was established in 1960 to protect the southernmost end of the Patagonian Andean forests. Located along the Chilean border in Tierra del Fuego Province, it is a park of high irregular mountains, glacial valleys, lakes, rivers and semi-deciduous forests where the Andes meet the Beagle Channel at the southern tip of Argentina. The Martial Glacier is the park's best known sight for visitors who travel Patagonia on Argentina tours.
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Southern Explorations offers three Argentina tours that visit Tierra del Fuego National Park. These include the ten-day Patagonia Highlights tour, the eleven-day Patagonia Hiking Adventure and the thirteen-day Best of Argentina trip. These Argentina tours also visit Los Glaciares National Park. In addition to visiting national parks, the Patagonia Highlights and Best of Argentina tours are filled with wildlife viewing opportunities along the way, including stops to see important breeding colonies of Magellanic penguins where travelers on these Patagonia tours may walk among the birds.
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Southern beech forests predominate in Tierra del Fuego National Park. On its mountain slopes are lenga forests, and in wetter areas down to the channel, guindo forests with Magellanic orchid ground cover in some places. The red flowers of the notro (fire bush) are spectacular in bloom. Higher elevations contain high Andean vegetation.
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In addition to the near-extinct southern sea otter possibly visible from shore by travelers on Argentina tours, over twenty mammals inhabit the park including guanaco and red fox. Among its many birds species are condors as well as upland, ashy-headed and kelp geese that live in open areas and along beaches. Some non-native animal species, introduced for economic purposes, have altered the landscape.
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There are archeological sites in the park's Lake Roca area that can be visited on your Patagonia tours when you travel to Argentina. With the arrival of the Creoles and the white man, the indigenous peoples disappeared, decimated by new diseases or killed.
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The park contains a camping zone for visitors on Argentina tours, and trails are marked for short and long hikes. Summer temperatures never climb above 50F, and winters are cold with snow and rain. There is no dry season. The closest Argentine city is Ushuaia.
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For more information about visiting Tierra del Fuego National Park when you travel Patagonia on Argentina tours, email tierradelfuego@apn.gov.ar
