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ROUTE PUERTO MONTT - PUERTO NATALES |
South Route |
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Friday / Puerto Montt
Check in Angelmó # 1735, Puerto Montt, from 9 AM to 12:30 AM. The crewmembers will welcome the passengers and give them some information for an entertaining and safe sailing. Then we will set sail through the Patagonia fjords, to Puerto Natales city as our final destination. We begin sailing in Reloncaví Estuary, Ancud Gulf and at sunset, we enter Corcovado Gulf. We have just started a surprising adventure. |
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Saturday / Moraleda Canal - Golfo de Penas
We start sailing at dawn by the Moraleda channel, which is one of the deepest, we sail on the route, later we sail Errázuriz and Costa channels. Then we enter Pelluche channel, the most abundant in vegetation (Cypress and Lengas forests) if we are lucky enough, we could even see “toninas” (a kind of dolphin), seals and wild birds. At sunset, we start sailing the ocean in gulf of Penas area, which lasts 12 hours approximately and here is possible to see Humpback Whales. |
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Sunday / Attractions - Glaciers
We wake up sailing between fjords and crossing the Messier channel, which is 1,270 meters deep. This characteristic makes it one of the deepest in the area; here we will also be able to see a cargo ship “Capitán Leonidas”, which is aground since the 70s in a semi sunken islet called “Bajo Cotopaxi”. Nowadays, it is used as a lighthouse and as a point of reference for sailors. Shortly after that, we will cross “Angostura Inglesa” to arrive to Puerto Edén (Only high season), which is located in Wellington Island, one of the biggest in Chile. It is part of Bernardo O’Higgins National park, which is the vastest in Chile, it has Magallánicos forest and Southern Patagonia Ice Field. This area is full of glaciers and, if weather and itinerary permitting, we will come and we can see some of them .*
*Glaciers possible to visit on day 3 in Puerto Montt - Puerto Natales Route are: Amalia Glacier, Glacier Skua, Estero de las montañas, Iceberg o Brujo. |
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Monday / Angostura White – Puerto Natales
We wake up sailing Sarmiento channel, and then we arrive to the narrowest path of the route, Angostura White, which is only 80 metres wide. Later, we sail the Union small bay and then we enter the channel to access Puerto Natales city where our great adventure ends. |
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South Route
Itinerary : From Puerto Montt to Puerto Natales
(One Way)
Departure date : on Friday
Arrival : on Monday / aprox. 11.00am
Duration of the Trip : 03 nights sailing
Pto. Montt - Pto. Natales
• Check-in: Fridays from 09:00 hrs. to 12.30 hrs.
• Boarding time: 14:00 hrs.
• Departure: 16:00 hrs.
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| What you see? |
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Puerto Eden |
Its coasts were inhabited by indigenous canoeists, predecessors of the Kawéskar people. Puerto Eden is located south of the Penas Gulf and is the only existing village in 650 Km., from the locality of Caleta Tortel (XIth Region) to the city of Puerto Natales (XIIth Region), and the only access is by sea. |
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Puerto Natales |
Puerto Natales is the city of entry to the Torres del Paine and Bernardo O´Higgins National Parks, it is located 256 Km. from the city of Punta Arenas. The name Puerto Natales has its origin of the word in Latin Natalis that means bird and it was founded in 1911. |
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Pio XI |
Be touched and live the experience of knowing the Pio XI glacier, the biggest one of South America with a front of 6 Km, and a height of 100 mtrs. The only way to access it is by sea and Navimag will be its best alternative, bringing together a unique route with an ambience of meeting and friendship between passengers and the crew. |
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| Bajo Cotopaxi |
Is located in the Messier Channel, in front of the Williams Island. This place, where the English ship “COTOPAXI “ran aground at the beginning of 1889, consists of 3,8 cables of length by 1,2 cables of width. On the rock of the low, 4,9 meters deep are sounded. In the north end of Cotopaxi is where the ex " Capitán Leonidas” ship is stranded. In the cover of the Ex- Capitán Leonidas, was a radar searchlight and a lighthouse installed to indicate the danger to the navigation. |
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Angostura Inglesa |
The Angostura Inglesa is located the East of the Wellington Island, joining the Messier Channel (on the north) with the Paso del Indio (on the south). |
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Angostura White |
The Angostura White is located inside the Santa Maria Channel, one of the two accesses to Puerto Natales. |
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