Paso Fronterizo Cardenal Samoré
| Paso Fronterizo Cardenal Samoré | |||
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 The pass road in winter |
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| Compass direction | west | east | |
| region | Los Lagos region , Chile | Province of Neuquen , Argentina | |
| expansion | Pass road | ||
| Mountains | To the | ||
| Map (Región de los Lagos) | |||
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 42 '47 " S , 71 ° 56' 38" W | ||
The Paso Fronterizo Cardenal Samoré is one of the main road passes in the southern Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile .
Along with the Paso Internacional Los Libertadores , it is one of the easiest Andean passes between the two states and one of the few paved pass roads in the region. On the western side in Chile, the Ruta 215-CH , which branches off from the Panamericana in Osorno, leads to the top of the pass, on the eastern side the Argentine Ruta Nacional 231 runs from San Carlos de Bariloche via Villa La Angostura to the border. The top of the pass is just over 1300 m above sea level, with the figures varying between 1305 m and 1314 m.
The pass is used by around half a million people and around 31,000 trucks annually to cross the border between Chile and Argentina. A contract signed between the two states in 1974 guarantees the transport of Chilean goods from the Región de los Lagos over the pass road and through the Argentine part of Patagonia to the Chilean Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena . The border crossing is subject to control by the Policía de Investigaciones de Chile (PDI) and the Gendarmería Nacional Argentina .
history
The pass road has its current name after Cardinal Antonio Samorè , who mediated the Beagle conflict between Chile and Argentina from 1978 to 1983 . Argentina planned at that time, with Operation Soberanía by the III. Army Corps under the orders of Luciano Benjamin Menéndez to cross the pass and take the Regíón de los Lagos.
Before it was renamed, the pass was known as Paso Puyehue in Chile and the Argentines knew it as El Rincón .
After the eruption of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in June 2011, the pass road was closed for two months.
After a fire the terminal building on the Chilean side on 31 December 2012 the pass was for the traffic completely blocked. The pass was reopened on January 25, 2013.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Disputa con Chile por la reapertura del paso Samoré (Spanish) , La Nación. August 4, 2011. Retrieved September 17, 2011.
