Pali Aike National Park

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Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′  S , 69 ° 44 ′  W The Pali Aike National Park (Spanish Parque Nacional Pali Aike ) is a national park in the extreme south of the Chilean mainland, northeast of Punta Arenas . It covers an area of ​​around 50 km² and part of the Pali Aike volcanic field of the same namewith the Pali Aike crater.

A cave in the national park, as well as a second with Fell's cave , outside the reserve are archaeological sites from the Paleo-Indian period . The stone tools are dated to an age of around 11,000 years and are among the oldest in South America. The Pali Aike and Fell's Caves were jointly proposed to UNESCO as World Heritage in 1998 .

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