A propós de la patagonie

Close to 500 animal species live in Patagonia: 400 birds, 60 mammals and a group of amphibians, fish, and reptiles along with an enormous and undetermined quantity of insects.

Natural life at the end of the world is abundant and surprising. For thousands of years, diverse animals and plants have adapted and evolved in the strong winds, low temperatures, and ceaseless rains.

The Torres del Paine National Park, itself, is the natural habitat for 133 types of birds, among them condors, ñandúes, flamingos, bandurrias, black neck swans, eagles, loicas and cachañas. Download the birdwatcher’s checklist available for our travelers or ask for it when you get to your destination so you can check the birds you see during your explorations.

25 mammals species can also be found, some in numbers and visible at short range, such as guanacos and foxes; others in danger of extinction and visible only in certain areas such as the huemul and the puma.

Around 2,500 plant species exist, from very simple forms (algaes, lichens, mosses and mushrooms) to leafy trees (lenga, coihue, alerce and ñirre), with intermediary forms such as ferns, grasses and bushes. From the plains to the leafy forests of the mountains, the flora is intense and varied with many endemic species.