An Encounter With Locals Punta Arenas Highlights

An Encounter With Locals Punta Arenas Highlights

Punta Arenas capital of the Magellan´s region is considered to be the largest one in territory in Chile but only 1% of chileans live here. Harsh weather conditions in winter and mild summers are a challenge for everyone. Just like in the old days in the city, before the Panama Canal different languajes were being spoken in the streets of Punta Arenas, Ernest Shackleton, Gabriela Mistral (the chilean Nobel Prize winning poet), Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy, were just some of the foreigners attracted by the local beauty of the landscapes of Patagonia.

Come and visit Punta Arenas, a must see place in Patagonia, a great introduction to the local history in the southermost tip of the American continent.

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Itinerary
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Stop At: Costanera de Punta Arenas, Av. Costanera del Estrecho de Magallanes, Punta Arenas Chile

Nice view of the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego Island.
Take a photo with the frame of the name of the city, the old pier of Punta Arenas where famous explorer from all over the world were on.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Plaza Munoz Gamero, Punta Arenas Chile

A compulsory stop to an introduction to the history of Magellan in 1520, about the natives who used to be part of Patagonia, the economy in the old days and arquitecture of the french style palaces around it.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Mirador Cerro De La Cruz, Punta Arenas Chile

A panoramic view of the Strait of Magellan and an introduction to how did geology has been doing it in this area of the country for the last thousand of years.
Take a photo with the colorful roofs of the houses and Tierra del Fuego in the background. Could not be any better for sure.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Cementerio Municipal, Punta Arenas Chile

A travel magazine has ranked this National Monument cemetery of Punta Arenas as one of the 10 most beautiful ones in the world.



Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Instituto De La Patagoonia, Av Bulnes, Punta Arenas Chile

This is a quite different museum in Punta Arenas.
It is also known as the museum of the Remembrance in Punta Arenas, we can really learn a lot about how the old days in Patagonia used to be. Visit the pioneers house, the stand of a local sheep farm (estancia), how a grocery store used to look like in the early days in the city, and old garage displaying three beautiful cars used in Punta Arenas and lots more.

Duration: 45 minutes