Tierra del Fuego National Park

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End of National Road 3 in the Tierra del Fuego National Park

The Tierra del Fuego National Park (German National Park Tierra del Fuego ; Spanish Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego ) is the southernmost national park in Argentina . The 630 km² protected area is located in the southeast of the island of Tierra del Fuego , 18 km from the city of Ushuaia (54 ° 48'S; 68 ° 18'W). The park was established in 1960 with the main aim of protecting the southernmost sub-Antarctic forests.

It is one of the Argentine national parks, next to the UNESCO nature reserve Valdés , which has a sea coast as it is bordered in the south by the Beagle Channel . The scenic attractions in the national park include glaciers, deep valleys and gorges, rivers and lakes, and peat bogs. The Laguna Negra is an example of a peat bog that is still in the making.

The Antarctic beech ( Nothofagus antarctica ) in the Tierra del Fuego National Park

In the southern part of the national park there are a large number of signposted hiking trails (a total of 25 km) that lead to various viewpoints or special landscape formations. The path to Bahía Lapataia , a bay on the Beagle Channel, where many water birds live, is particularly beautiful . There are also archaeological sites of the Yámana indigenous people who lived from fishing in canoes.

Web links

Commons : Tierra del Fuego National Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Tierra del Fuego National Park  - travel guide


Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  S , 68 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W.