Exulted as one of the most scenic hiking venues on the planet, Torres del Paine ... park is open to visitors daily. Roughly 23 miles from the park entrance, you'll find the Conaf (Chile's National ...

Torres del Paine is one of Chile's most precious national parks. Four years after a negligent Czech citizen, Jiri Smitak, accidentally started a huge fire in the world famous Torres Del Paine ...

Part of the Patagonian snow fields, Los Glaciares National Park lies some 20 miles north of Torres del Paine. The park is ... The enormous Perito Moreno glacier rests here, rising nearly 200 ...

VirtualTourist announced that after more than five million worldwide votes, Turismo Chile's entry of Torres del Paine National Park has been named the “8th Wonder of the World”. Earlier this ...

Vicente Pérez Rosales was the first national park established in Chile. The park's ... The centerpiece of Torres del Paine is the Paine Massif, the glacier-sculpted remnant of a granite batholith ...

The fossilised remains of Chile’s first complete ichthyosaur have been unearthed from a melting glacier deep in the Patagonia area of the South American ... within the boundaries of the Torres del ...

This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the head of a remote fjord in southern Chile ... of Pío XI, in Torres del Paine National Park, tourists are ...