{"id":17793,"date":"2019-02-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/?p=17793"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T20:12:51","slug":"bernardo-ohiggins-national-park-glaciers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/places\/bernardo-ohiggins-national-park-glaciers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo O\u2019Higgins National Park Glaciers"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\nWith 3,525,901 hectares, the <\/span>Bernardo O’Higgins<\/span><\/i> National Park is the largest in Chile. It covers the regions of <\/span>Ays\u00e9n<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Magallanes<\/span><\/i> in the provinces of <\/span>Capit\u00e1n Prat<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>\u00daltima Esperanza<\/span><\/i> and the communes of <\/span>Caleta Tortel,<\/span><\/i> Villa O’Higgins,<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Puerto Natales<\/span><\/i>.<\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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One of the many lagoons of glacier origin can be seen around the source of the Geikie River, the boundary between <\/span>Torres del Paine<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Bernardo O’Higgins<\/span><\/i> National Parks.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe park’s territory has many canals in the western sector. At the park’s eastern sector is the southern Patagonian ice field from which numerous glaciers break off. Near <\/span>Puerto Ed\u00e9n is<\/span><\/i> The Pio XI glacier, where huge ice blocks break off. The ice wall is approximately 75 meters high (about 30 floors of a conventional building) and when it falls waves of more than 10 meters are formed. This glacier has 1265 kms<\/span>2<\/span> and is the largest in South America.<\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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The hanging glacier of <\/span>Monte<\/span><\/i> Balmaceda<\/span><\/i> is within the limits of the park and is one of the most visited sectors each year by tourists.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Access to <\/b>Bernardo O’Higgins<\/i><\/b> National Park for excursionist<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAccess to this enormous National Park can be made by sea. There are sailings from <\/span>Villa Serrano<\/span><\/i> (on the border of <\/span>Torres del Paine<\/span><\/i>) and also from <\/span>Puerto Natales<\/span><\/i> that disembark in <\/span>Puerto Toro<\/span><\/i>; a place from where every day hundreds of tourists walk about 1 hour (round trip) to contemplate the lagoon and <\/span>Serrano<\/span><\/i> glacier, which is detached from <\/span>Monte Balmaceda<\/span><\/i>. There is also access from <\/span>Puerto Eden<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Caleta Tortel<\/span><\/i> (also by sea). The more adventurous can do some hiking trails, but a guide is required because there are no marked trails. The photo gallery below shows a little of what can be seen in this unexplored area.<\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Unnamed hanging glaciers and beautiful turquoise lagoons in the <\/span>Bernardo O’Higgins<\/span><\/i> National Park area.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"Lago Balmaceda<\/span><\/i> and his characteristic <\/span>Nunatak<\/span><\/i><\/a> [mountain peak that is surrounded by an ice field]<\/span><\/i>
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\"\"Lago Balmaceda <\/span><\/i>from the plateau of<\/span> Monte Balmaceda.<\/span><\/i><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"Hanging glacier that detaches from the area known as the plateau of the French.<\/span><\/i><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"Beautiful turquoise lagoon surrounded by a lenga forest.<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"Beautiful waterfall emerging from one of the hanging glaciers.<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With 3,525,901 hectares, the Bernardo O’Higgins National Park is the largest in Chile. It covers the regions of Ays\u00e9n and Magallanes in the provinces of Capit\u00e1n Prat and \u00daltima Esperanza and the communes of Caleta Tortel, Villa O’Higgins, and Puerto Natales. The park’s territory has many canals in the western sector. At the park’s eastern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow57LVCw:productID":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2871],"tags":[2833,3071,2681,2742,2739,1635,2830],"coauthors":[3344],"class_list":["post-17793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places","tag-aysen-region","tag-bernardo-ohiggins-national-park","tag-glacier-en-2","tag-glaciers","tag-magallanes-region","tag-region-de-magallanes","tag-trekking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17796,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions\/17796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17793"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaciareschilenos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}