Guides and Trips in Chubut
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Trips
Servicio de navegación fluvial y observación de aves en libertad.Chacra N°211 (Posada Los mimbres) - Gaiman, Chubut, Patagonia Argentina.El tour consta de una navegación de ida y vuelta por el Río Chubut, acompañados por dos profesionales locales dispuestos a brindarte la mejor atención durante el recorrido. En el mismo podrás conocer un ambiente natural, en donde podemos observar mas de 50 especies de aves, fauna local (aérea, acuática y terrestre) y doméstica...
Argentina tour, first stop, Dec. 24-26, 2006
Mejor temporada Nov.y Feb a Abril De Dic a Febrero el Tabano (Mosca gigante) te hostiga y es muy desagradable
Better season Nov. and Feb to April Of Dic to February the Tabano (giant Fly) harasses to you and is very disagreeable
Full day trip - Peninsula Valdés + wale watching
Puerto Pirámides, Chubut, Argentina
Boating | 244 miles
Boating | 244 miles
Die etwa 3625 km² große Halbinsel Valdés (span. Península Valdés) liegt in der argentinischen Provinz Chubut an der Atlantikküste.Sie ist ein Naturreservat und wurde 1999 von der UNESCO auf die Welterbeliste gesetzt. Die Península Valdés besteht größtenteils aus karger Landschaft und einigen kleineren Salzseen, derer größter mit 35 Metern unter dem Meeresspiegel den tiefsten Punkt Argentiniens bildet.Von besonderer Bedeutung ist die Halbinsel wegen der Meeressäugetiere, die sich an ihrem Ufer und vor...
Shaped like an ax, the Valdes peninsula is marked by its vibrant coastline, a stunning array of tall cliffs, rocky reefs, and exotic marine mammals. Considered one of the most valuable wildlife areas in the world, Peninsula Valdes is home to the southern elephant seal, sea lion, and right whale. It is joined to the continent by the Ameghino isthmus with the gulfs of San José in the north, and Nuevo in...
El Dique Florentino Ameghino es una central hidroeléctrica de Argentina, ubicada en la Patagonia, provincia del Chubut, a 140 km al oeste de la ciudad de Trelew.
El dique embalsa las aguas del río Chubut, provenientes de los deshielos de los Andes. La presa posee 2 turbinas tipo Francis de 30 MW cada una.
1943: obra de ingeniería proyectada por el Ing. Antonio Pronsato
1963: inauguración del murallón del embalse artificial, de 25 km,...
Punta Tombo is the most important Magellan Penguins colony within Patagonia. Almost a million of them arrive at this place every year in order to breed.The first penguins arrive in September and stay here up to mid March but the best season to see them is after November, once the babies are born.One of the greatest features of this Reservation is the fact that you can literally walk among the penguins, follow...
La Trochita, (El Viejo Expreso Patagónico), in English known as the Old Patagonian Express, is a 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) narrow gauge railway in Patagonia, Argentina using steam locomotives. The nickname La Trochita means literally "The Little Narrow Gauge" in Spanish. It is 402 km in length and runs through the foothills of the Andes between Esquel and El Maiten in Chubut Province and Ingeniero Jacobacci in Río Negro Province, originally it was part of...
The second part of my visit started with my trip to Puerto Madryn, named after Love Jones-Parry, the Baron of Madryn in Wales, who accompanied Lewis Jones on an initial survey of the region in 1863.Upon arrival I met with staff from the Fundacion Patagonia Natural, discussed some of the work that the Fundacion does by training school staff to deliver some of the materials which they send to schools encouraging learners...
The site was once a sheep farm, now providing refuge for Guanacos and other wildlife of the region. This site is of particular interest since there is a large (12 km) of dramatic coastline rich in marine life including Southern Right
Whales, Magellanic Penguins, Elephant Seals and Sea Lions. Some of the images show the "Gypsum" cliffs which are unique to this part of the coastine.
Penguin Colony at Punta TomboThe 2.1 km2 (0.8 sq mi) Punta Tombo Provincial Reserve has been protected since 1979, according to provincial decree, and it is one of the main tourist attractions in Chubut.Between September and April, a large number of
Magellanic penguins come to this site to incubate their eggs in Punta Tombo, and
prepare their offspring for migration - the largest such colony in South
America. Couples stand in front of...
Visit to a reserve and observatory at Punta Flecha
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Still trying to find the P.Madryn to Commodorio Rivadavia bit but it's pretty much the same as the rest of route 3!!
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This is where the gps made a bid for freedom but was captured and returned (the last bit on the map)
This is the standard day tour that most operators run to Peninsual Valdes from Puerto Madryn.It includes stopping at Puerto Piramides for (optional) whale watching.
