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El Chaltén is located in the Southern Andes, within the Los Glaciares National Park, in a valley where the rivers De las Vueltas and Fitz Roy meet. Cerro Chaltén or Fitz Roy is the predominant figure of the landscape. The town is in an ecoregion called ecotone, the transition between the steppe and the forest. The plain abruptly leads to huge rock formations with forested valleys crossed by rivers and streams.
The seasons are well defined during the year, summer is mild with average temperatures of 12ºC, days with many hours of sunlight, usually windy and moderate rainfalls. The winter is cold, with an average temperature of 2ºC, short days, little wind and sporadic snowfalls. In this almost uninhabited latitude of the planet, wildlife finds in its valleys and mountains a virgin paradise.
Many living beings can only exist in these ideal conditions. The best example of the fragility of this environment protected by the National Park is represented by the Huemul, an endemic deer in danger of extinction.
On January 12, 2015, through National Law 27,055, El Chaltén was declared "National Capital of Trekking”. In this way it is officially recognized adding value to the extraordinary combination of elements that are given in El Chaltén for mountain sports: a pristine and protected natural environment, numerous trekking circuits with varying grades of difficulty, dozens of climbing routes of very high technical requirements, and a town where social and economic developments grow in relation to the active tourism.
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San Pedro de Atacama - Chile
