The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is an important center of nesting to the Magellan’s and Antarctic penguin. The Park is habitat of an important number of marine mammals and marine birds it is only possible to be acceded by sea to The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos), reason why it consults in Port Williams the possibilities of making strolls or tours.
The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is characterizes by the presence of the vegetal formation of tubers and cold desert of Cape Horn, with a landscape that is characterized to have a universal substitute of the small mosses and lichens, that gave origin to the denominated “tourism with magnifying glass” in the park. In addition, The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) counts with forests where coigüe, cinnamon-coloured predominate and ñirre, which is associated the existence of a wild community of fauna with conservation problems, like the swan coscoroba, condor, lile, among others.
The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is an important center of nesting to the Magellan’s and Antarctic penguin. The Park is habitat of an important number of marine mammals and marine birds it is only possible to be acceded by sea to The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos), reason why it consults in Port Williams the possibilities of making strolls or tours.
Between the activities that can be made in The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos), are emphasizes, tourist navigation, the photography and the observation of flora and fauna. Cape Horn in addition was chosen like Reserve of the Biosphere by UNESCO, since it is the more austral forest ecosystem of the planet and represents one of the very little forests tempering no fragmented in the world.
It is a landmark in the history of world-wide navigation, constituting the more austral inter-oceanic step, between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The proposal is to fortify and to consolidate as tourist destiny of high national and international relevance of Cape Horn.
The project will be executed by Euro-Chile and hopes to consolidate the commune of Cape Horn as a territorial tourist destiny outstanding and unique, deposit taker of the national parks and more austral islands of the planet. This through an eco-tourist program, based on the sustainable use of its natural cultural and historical attractive.
In order to guarantee that the increasing affluence of tourists does not generate negative impacts in its natural and socio cultural patrimonies of the National Cape Park Horn, the initiative contemplates the accomplishment of a rise of biophysical information in key sites of action, like The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos), the North coast of the Navarino island and the Caleta Wulaia-Channel Murray. These antecedents will be used for the definition of public use zones and the creation of eco tourist circuits.
The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is an important center of nesting to the Magellan’s and Antarctic penguin. The Park is habitat of an important number of marine mammals and marine birds it is only possible to be acceded by sea to The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos), reason why it consults in Port Williams the possibilities of making strolls or tours.
Between the activities that can be made in The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos), are emphasizes, tourist navigation, the photography and the observation of flora and fauna. Cape Horn in addition was chosen like Reserve of the Biosphere by UNESCO, since it is the more austral forest ecosystem of the planet and represents one of the very little forests tempering no fragmented in the world.
It is a landmark in the history of world-wide navigation, constituting the more austral inter-oceanic step, between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The proposal is to fortify and to consolidate as tourist destiny of high national and international relevance of Cape Horn.
The project will be executed by Euro-Chile and hopes to consolidate the commune of Cape Horn as a territorial tourist destiny outstanding and unique, deposit taker of the national parks and more austral islands of the planet. This through an eco-tourist program, based on the sustainable use of its natural cultural and historical attractive.
In order to guarantee that the increasing affluence of tourists does not generate negative impacts in its natural and socio cultural patrimonies of the National Cape Park Horn, the initiative contemplates the accomplishment of a rise of biophysical information in key sites of action, like The National Park of Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos), the North coast of the Navarino island and the Caleta Wulaia-Channel Murray. These antecedents will be used for the definition of public use zones and the creation of eco tourist circuits.
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