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In Palena, the Andean culture is breathed piece by piece. Land of mates, horses and gauchos, it also has a rich natural heritage, whose symbol is the crystalline and mighty Palena River, navigable from this town to its mouth at the sea in Raúl Marín Balmaceda. Its name was given by Nicolás Mascardi, the first Jesuit explorer who arrived in the area, who found similarities with his native town in Italy.
In 1911 it began to receive the first Chilean settlers who had already settled some years before in Argentina and now returned to Chile to develop livestock activities near the border of the Río Encuentro and Valle California. The transit from one country to another has always been frequent in this area, forming a cultural braid that manifests itself every year in the Binational Meeting of Traditions.
Today it is an unmissable destination with a varied offer of rural, adventure and nature tourism.
This beatifull property with lagoon is in the heart of the Chilean Patagonia. It is a little explored place but ideal for fly fishing. The lagoon has a large population of salmon.
The property is located in the beautiful and lush sector of Cordón Blanco in the province of Palena.
It borders the beautiful pristine Black Lagoon with incredible natural beaches surrounded with dense evergreen native forest. All its boundaries adjoins the Cóndor Blanco estuary. Slopes and small mountains covered with evergreen mayestic forests surround the logoon, a magical sigth. The property is accessed by a gravel road. Forests are in a natural condition, most of it is Coigue (Chilean Oak), Mañio, Tepa and Lenga only found in this southern latitudes of the planet.
This property is located in the Andes Mountains in a little explored and almost virgin area near Palena called “El Malito”. It is possible to access the property by vehicle up to 2 kms before the property, the road must be finished for vehicular traffic to the property. Then you walk along trails and cross 2 rivers. One of these rivers has trout and salmon. The other is Andean meltwater agus that does not bring fish. It borders the black lagoon in 500 meters, which is abundant in fish, since only few people visit this place. It has a lot of forest, trails, slopes, strong and gentle slopes. It is also possible to find wild boars inside. Formerly there was a house on the property and today it only has a shelter near the lake. It is a wonderful place for a conservation or fishing project.
Santa Bárbara Airport: 156 kms distant where regional airplanes land from La Paloma Airport in Puerto Montt.
Chaitén: distant 156 km away. Ferries departing from the cities of Puerto Montt, Castro and Quellón arrive at this port. You can board the barge with your vehicle and get off with it in Chaiten to continue touring Patagonia.
From Balmaceda airport to the property there is a distance of approximately 160 km, of which 55% is paved, 45% is gravel.
The property is near to Route W-957.
In Palena it is possible to find basic commerce, gas station, ATM, hospital, vulcanization or rubber shop, cell phone signal, school, day care, restaurant, 950 mts of landing strip for private flights, hostels and carabineros (police).
In Chaitén there is also a hospital, government offices, a notary’s office, a bank, an ATM, hotels, a high school, a service station, an airport, among other things.
Warm/temperate climate, Köppen-Geiger classification is Cfb.
Average annual temperature: 50 ºF
Exposure: Southwest
Precipitation: 1.710 mm/year (precipitation all year round, even in the driest month – January – 51 mm precipitation).
The coldest month is July with an average temperature of 30.2°F and the warmest is January with 64.4 °F.
the property has only a small mountain refuge but it is possible to hired the construction service with specialized local builders.
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