The Calafate
The Calafate is on the foot of the Calafate hill and to borders of the Argentine Lake. It is acceded from River Galician, Capital of the Province of Santa Cruz, by means of 324 km of paved route. Account with a population of 4,000 inhabitants approximately.
The Calafate is the front door to the National Park the Glaciers, where is the Perito Moreno Glacier.
C.P.: 9405 (Postal Code)
DDN: 02902 (National Direct Dialing)
DDI: 054 (International Direct Dialing)
Characteristics
| Latitude |
50° 16´ 49" south |
| Length |
72° 3´ 11" west |
| Altitude |
312 m on the level of the sea |
Distance to other places
| From Calafate to Cataracts of the Iguazu |
4591 km |
| From Calafate to Buenos Aires |
3064 km |
| From Calafate to Esquel |
2286 km |
| From Calafate to Madryn Port |
1486 km |
| From Calafate to Salta |
4102 km |
| From Calafate to San Agustin of Valle Fertil |
3020 km |
| From Calafate to San Carlos de Bariloche |
1645 km |
| From Calafate to San Martin of the Andes |
1608 km |
| From Calafate to Ushuaia |
1105 km |
* The distances are by paved routes
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Location
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Lake Argentino
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With a 1560 surface km2, the Argentine Lake is the greater one of the Argentine Republic and third in South America, it is to 185 ms on the level of the sea, it has a length is of 60 km and a wide one between 14 and 20 km.
Its depth varies between 35 and 1000 ms, the lake are the east of the river Santa Cruz that empties in the Argentine Sea.
Their waters are white due to polvillo very fine product of the abrasion of glaciers, call glaciarian milk. |
Lake Argentino |
National Park The Glaciers
Perito Moreno Glacier
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The National Park the Glaciers was created in 1937, is to the southwest of the province of Santa Cruz. km2 has 6,000 of which 1,540 km2 belong to the Sector of National Reserve, with 365 glaciers, of which 13 are the more important ones.
In 1981 was declared Natural Patrimony by UNESCO World-wide, with the objective to preserve and to transmit to the presents and future generations all its patrimony. |
Tourism in The Calafate: Santa Cruz - Argentine Patagonia
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