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XII Region
Chile

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Duration:	4 hours
Start / Finish:	Punta Arenas - Chile
Profile:	Regular tour, possible for everybody
Season:	September 1, 2005 - April 30, 2006
Departures:	Daily, 10:00 a.m.
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In 1584 the Spanish navigator Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founded the first settlement in Southern Patagonia to proclaim the region in the name of the Spanish crown. Gamboa´s colony "Rey Don Felipe" turned out to be a disaster and did not last for long. About 300 people died of starvation, disease or were killed by the natives. We therefore call it now Puerto del Hambre (The Port of Hunger). As our half-day tour goes on, we reach Fort Bulnes, the first Chilean Establishment in Patagonia, founded in 1843. You can walk freely around those silent messengers of the past and visit each building made out of tree trunks. From the higher watch tower you have a very good view of the surroundings and the Strait of Magellan that was the only reasonable seaway between the Atlantic and the Pacific ocean until the Panama Canal was opened in 1914.

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