La Leona Cave -52.480132, -71.123072 Memory Landscape Within the wavy steppe, 90 kilometres north of Punta Arenas, a rocky crack sinks below the bushes, discrete in its attempt to hide in the topography, while seeking shelter from the wind. This refuge was greatly appreciated by the pedestrian ancestors from Paeloindian...
Pali Aike
Pali Aike -52.114540, -69.713497 Memory Landscape Set of voluptuous craters that germinated from the extensive and infinite pampa, in the middle of the desert steppe of the Patagonian continent. This volcanic rocky cluster sheltered the pedestrian ancestors of the Paleoindian for thousands of years. Those who, through a nomadic life,...
Patagonian Andes
Patagonian Andes -53.617660, -71.869804 Memory Landscape The Andean Cordillera is the spinal column of Chile. Apart from being the division wall between nations it is a climate screen that shelters and confines the weather to those who inhabit its western face. The Andes are also part of the cultural vision...
Dawson Island
Dawson Island -53.971163, -70.765272 Memory Landscape Piece of land that emerges from the strait of Magallanes, trapped between the continent and the rest of the fragments that were once bound together over the sea. Dawson Island is a place of contradiction, a distant landscape, partly hidden, and at the same...
Fueguian Steppe
Fueguian Steppe -53.007884, -69.060934 Memory Landscape The massive fires that emerged from the island adverted the western explorers of the presence of the natives inhabiting the land. They baptised the island Land of Fire after the line of firelights that followed them as they navigated along the coast. Also named...
Erratic blocks
Bloques Erráticos -53.494055, -69.239932 Memory Landscape You will see them just at the end of Bahía Inútil, perched on the horizontal canvas of the Patagonian steppe, sprinkled randomly and even curiously. They are giant rocks carved and shaped by the process of time that Tierra del Fuego witnessed. They are...
Sierra Baguales
Sierra Baguales -50.631683, -72.495611 Memory Landscape Located 120 kilometers northeast of Puerto Natales is the Sierra Baguales, imposing, and defiantly oriented in an east-west direction, perpendicular to the Patagonian Andes. Clinging to the territory that thousands of years ago saw it form, it emerged from the ground until it reached...
Stromatolites
Stromatolites -53.246536, -70.348968 Memory Landscape Without a doubt, stromatolites are part of the memory of the Earth. These living fossils are the relict of beings that lived millions of years ago, clutching to the current landscape. Their vitality is expressed throughout the changing seasons, shifting from orange during the summer...
Conchales Yaganes
Conchales Yaganes -54.932222, -67.320460 Memory Landscape A conchal is a circular mound of shells, deposited by the Yagán people around their akar (home). Proper barriers to the hostile weather, conchales served as wind stoppers for the ingenious natives, who found sustainable ways to inhabit their territory, using every element of...