Pali-Aike National Park

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Preserving 5,000 hectares of the Magellanic Steppe, the inhospitable Pali-Aike National Park is an oasis for geologists, volcanologists and anthropologists. Known by the Tehuelche people as “the desolate place where the devil dwells”, excavations at the Pali Aike Cave found their ancestors stalked this area 11,000 years ago, hunting extant and extinct animals and while cremating their dead in its dark recesses. For proof that this wasteland is not as dead as it seems, head down to the Laguna Ana to see Chilean Flamingos, and possibly skunks, foxes, armadillos, and guanacos and other animals. Hike up to the “Morada del Diablo” crater to be transported from the world’s 7th largest desert to the moon, where cones, caves, craters, basalt walls, and lava slags tell the story of the land’s violent past.