Located at the southern tip of Patagonia, in the region of Magallanes, Chile, Puerto Natales is the gateway to the spectacular Torres del Paine National Park in southern Chile, a  “must” for travellers heading Ushuaia from  El Calafate  or  Punta Arenas, and vice versa .

The city is located 165 miles northwest of Punta Arenas and 250 miles south of El Calafate, lying on the Señoret channel, Puerto Natales is the provincial capital of “Ultima Esperanza” and it  has a population of 15.000 inhabitants.

Located  on the sea, with a beautiful boulevard from where you get all the territory around Puerto Natales, mainly dominated by cattle ranches, the mountain range crossed by the Señoret channel and the glacier Balmaceda background.

In Puerto Natales there is organized tours to Torres del Paine National Park, among which are: Milodon Cave, former home of a mammal that was over 3 meters tall, visiting glaciers Balmaceda and Serrano +  Bernardo O’Higgins national park, the Full Day tour that runs Paine National Park back in the day.

One of the most beautiful and exciting ways to enter the National Park is with the “Rio Arriba navigation”, without a doubt the best and most exciting  entrance to the Torres del Paine, visiting the Balmaceda and Serrano Glaciers and from here on Zodiac upriver to the Serrano area.