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Andes mountain range shows its beauty in the Patagonian
provinces.
Millennial and silent forests with native vegetable
species extend along the shores of glistening waters.
At the summit of the mountains, nature overflows with
granite peaks and ice fields spreading their glacier
tongues into lakes of unsurpassable beauty.
Impressive mammals and sea birds, half way between real
life and fantasy, spend certain seasons on the rough
coasts of Patagonia where they complete part of their
life cycle.
Colonies of seals play on the islets and sandbanks.
In the Valdés Peninsula the sea elephants have
the only continental enclave in the world, a magical
place where the southern whales regularly come to the
Nuevo and San José gulfs to breed.
Patagonian hares, ñandúes (South American
ostrich) and guanacos run about the steppes and the
largest colony of Magellanic penguins in the world nest
at Punta Tombo.
This life cycle repeated since time immemorial unfolds
itself in front of the astonished eyes of the visitor.
In the south, Tierra del Fuego and the World's southernmost
city, Ushuaia, a gateway towards the vast and mysterious
Antarctica.
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