Cape Horn National Park

Cape Horn National Park
View of Cape Horn
Coordinates: 55 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  S , 67 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  W.
Location:	Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica , Chile
Next city:	Puerto Williams
Surface:	631 km²
Founding:	1945 Chile, 2005 UNESCO

The Cape Horn National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Cabo de Hornos ), founded in 1945 , is a 631 km² Chilean nature reserve on the extreme southern tip of South America . It is administered by the Chilean forest authority Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF).

The area of ​​the national park includes the entire southernmost, uninhabited archipelago of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago , which includes the two closely neighboring archipelagos of the Wollaston Islands and Hermite Islands . Cape Horn is located on Isla Hornos .

The landscape of the park is characterized by its rocky islands, the almost always churned sea and the very rough climate , already influenced by the Antarctic .

The flora includes trees with southern Magellan beech , the Canelo tree ( Drimys winteri ), ( Maytenus magellanica ) and Antarctic beech . Leopard seals , maned seals and southern elephant seals can be seen on the coast . In the associated protected marine zone, there are several species of dolphins such as B. White-bellied Dolphin and Peale Dolphin .

The national park since 2005, together with the Alberto de Agostini National Park , a biosphere reserve of UNESCO .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - ( Memento of August 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ http://www.unesco.org/mabdb/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?mode=gen&code=CHI+08

Web links

• Official park site at the Corporación Nacional Forestal (Spanish)
• Description of the biosphere reserve by UNESCO (Engl.)