Patagonia

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Patagonia

***** Location: South America
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Explanation


Patagonia is a region located at the southern end of South America, territory shared by Argentina and Chile, boasting some of the most dramatic landscapes on Earth.



The region comprises the southern section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the mountain range to the valleys it follows the Colorado River south towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean. To the west, it includes the territory of Valdivia through Tierra del Fuego archipelago.

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Parque Nacional Los Glaciares
(Spanish: The Glaciers)
is a national park in the Santa Cruz Province, in Argentine Patagonia. It comprises an area of 4459 km². In 1981 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

The national park, created in 1937, is the second largest in Argentina. Its name refers to the giant ice cap in the Andes range that feeds 47 large glaciers, of which only 13 flow towards the Atlantic Ocean. The ice cap is the largest outside of Antarctica and Greenland. In other parts of the world, glaciers start at a height of at least 2,500 meters above mean sea level, but due to the size of the ice cap, these glaciers begin at only 1,500m, sliding down to 200m AMSL, eroding the surface of the mountains that support them.
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パタゴニア Patagonia


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU


Photo Luca Galuzzi (http://www.galuzzi.it/) Creative Commons 2.5

summer in Patagonia
from the upper deck
an ocean of lead

- Shared by Jimmy ThePeach -
Joys of Japan, 2012



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Patagonia Haiku ...

cloudy blue green sky
swimming in viridian
endless enchantment

ms lume

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