El Calafate's Patagonia Wildlife
El Calafate's Patagonia Wildlife
El Calafate's Patagonia Wildlife
El Calafate is a small outpost known almost entirely as a hiker's resting stop on the way to Los Glacieres National Park in Southern Patagonia. As one of Argentina's, and indeed, all of Patagonia's, finest hiking regions, Los Glacieres lures adventure seekers and glacier-hopping enthusiasts with its varied hiking trails, ice trekking routes, and fantastic scenery.
But lest you think El Calafate and Los Glacieres are just a white blur of glacial ice, a description of the diverse and bountiful wildlife inhabiting the region should help to show how beautiful, colorful, and lively is the Southern Patagonia landscape.
The town of El Calafate itself, situated near the bottom of the world near Ushuaia, the world's southernmost town, and El Chatlen, Argentina's trekking capital, is poised in a unique location. Its restaurants, shops and stores are more inviting than many of the other towns in the region. Plus, it's surrounded by some of the most gorgeous massifs, snow-capped peaks, and gigantic glaciers. It's a dynamite combination of comfort for the trail-weary and adventure for the eager thrill-seeker.
When you first arrive in El Calafate from the airport or bus station, you'll note the incredible diversity of birdlife found almost exclusively in southern Patagonia. The town rests on the banks of the Lago Argentino, an extensive lake that stretches to the Perito Glacier. Nearby is also Lake Viedma, and both of these lakes are the congregating grounds for colorful flamingoes.
An excellent way to spend the evening in El Calafate, whether you have just arrived there or if you are coming back from a day or several day long trek on nearby glaciers, is to take a bottle of wine and picnic to the Nimes Lagoon, which runs into Lago Argentino, at sunset. You can watch flamingoes, black-necked swans, coots, and a variety of other birds nesting for the night.
In Los Glaciers National Park, located 50 miles from El Calafate, you'll find many other fascinating wildlife, many of them endangered but protected in the national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site. The red dwarfed deer, called punu punu, the river otter, or huilln, and the guanaco are all on the endangered wildlife list, but you may see them on a trek.
At the Perito Moreno glacier, the most popular with travelers in the El Calafate region, you can easily spend a day exploring the glacier along well-marked walkways, taking in the gorgeous vistas, the magnitude of the glacier itself, and you may even spot condors, eagles, armadillos, and gray foxes, all of which are found near the glacier and throughout the park.
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