Patagonia National Park | |
---|---|
Location | Aysén Region, Chile |
Coordinates | 47°07′06″S 72°29′05″W / 47.11833°S 72.48472°W |
Area | 3,045.28 km2 (1,175.79 sq mi) |
Designation | National park |
Designated | 2018 |
Governing body | National Forest Corporation (CONAF) |
Patagonia National Park (Spanish: Parque Patagonia) Is a National Park in Chile with a natural path where people formally walk on tracks
The park was created by Conservacion Patagonica, a nonprofit founded with the intent of protecting Patagonia's wildlands aneaming: Kris Tompkins Works to Build the Best National Park". Bradford Wieners. Bloomberg. April 23, 2014. [is Tompkins]], President of Tompkins Conservation, signed a decree creating 5 national parks, one of which was Patagonia National Park. Parque Patagonia was gifted to the Chilean state and combined with Lago Jeinimeni National Reserve, Lago Cochrane National Reserve, and other additional lands to form Patagonia National Park, with a combined area of 260,000 hectares (640,000 acres).[2][3][4][5]