The Magallanes National Reserve unit is located in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region, on the Brunswick Peninsula, 7 kilometers west of the center of the city of Punta Arenas. It was created on February 13, 1932 by Decree No. 1093. It extends across 20,878 hectares and is home to impressive native forests of Ñirres, Coigües and Lengas. Trekking through beautiful paths, exploring one of the larges forest in Patagonia. Beautiful place for trekking lovers, bird watchers and everyone who wants to immerse yourself in nature.
The Nao Victoria Museum located just outside the city of Punta arenas, is a full-scale replica of Hernando de Magellan’s ship. Lets experience to be lived on board through environmental sounds, replicas of everyday objects, navigation instruments and artillery. Going back 500 years in history.
It is the most important historical place in Chilean Patagonia. Fort Bulnes was a Chilean fort located on the shores of the Strait of Magellan, 52 kilometers south of Punta Arenas and a few kilometers from Cape Froward. It was founded on September 21, 1843 on the rocky hill of Punta Santa Ana, under the mandate of President Manuel Bulnes Prieto. It was destroyed a few years later, leaving the place in a state of abandonment. For the centenary of its foundation, it was rebuilt and reopened as a site museum in 1943. Fort Bulnes is one of the most important places in historical and archaeological terms in the region of Magallanes and Antarctica. Chilean. The Park is home to the National Historical Monuments Fuerte Bulnes and the King Don Felipe City or “Puerto del Hambre”, as well as Archaeological sites that indicate human presence for thousands of years.
