Chubut, Eco Travel

Nature Reserves of Marine Animals

The Province of Chubut promises and delivers adventures, with fields, beaches and plateaus crowded by million years old fossils, wild life and incredible sights for nature lovers.

The nature reserves of Chubut coastal eco travel line offers visitors the opportunity to observe orcas, dolphins and penguins in their natural habitat, sail or dive in crystalline blue waters, as close as one can imagine to the sovereign fauna of the southern Atlantic strip, the Southern Right Whale, marine elephants and sea lions.

Chubut Adventure

Chubut is provided with two National Parks and the Provincial Protected Areas. The coast is composed of cliffs in some sectors, whereas in others it has wide sandy beaches.

Its territory also includes a steppe plateau with rich paleontology treasures, spreading up to the Andes Mountains transforming into forests areas in the center of the province.

The route from the Andes to the coast presents diverse alternatives, crossing natural and cultural attractions, incredibly rural sceneries splashed by valleys of particular beauty.

From west to east the route crosses the localities of Gualjaina and Paso del Sapo. The Provincial Route Nº 12 or borders the Plateau of Somuncur along with the oasis of Telsen at the Provincial Route Nº 4 to come to the city of Puerto Madryn and from there to the Low Valley of Rio Chubut (Rawson. Trelew. Gaiman and Dolavon), the most popular region of the province.

The city of Trelew is one of the most important of the zone, of notable commercial and industrial activity, especially in the wool industry. It is provided with an international airport, great variety of transportation means, (with access to routes in very good shape) restaurants and high standard accommodations.

The Egidio Feruglio Museum is a center of attraction where paleontology investigations take place and an impressing collection of fossils of the region is exhibited in its modern building.

From the city of Trelew, the eco travel tour can include the Peninsula Valdes and the fabulous "pinguinera" at Punta Tombo with more than half a million penguins. Heading east, we find the provincial Capital, the City of Rawson. The emergence of both cities is tied to the first Welsh immigrations.

At few kilometers from the capital, at the mouth of Rio Chubut, are the premises of Port Rawson with its important fishing activities.

Outskirts, Playa Union offers wide beaches resorts for enjoyment of their residents and visitors.

67 kilometers to the North of Trelew, Puerto Madryn is a tourist center with extensive beaches, especially when the tide is low, reaching more than 200 meters width. The coastal area of transparent and cold waters is ideal for the practice of diving, sport fishing, windsurfing, sailing and eco travel tours. It is provided with an excellent hotels and high standard restaurants offering a varied menu of exquisite fresh seafood. With animated night life, pubs and dance places, the city is mostly populated January and February, when Argentineans, mostly young people, spend there the summer beaches vacation.

From Puerto Madryn it is possible to hire jaunts to all the corners of the beaches corridor, such as Puerto Piramides, a small town with a beautiful bay surrounded with a natural magnificent environment, which is a paradise for divers, and where boats depart for sightseeing of the whales.

Peninsula Valdes is an amazing eco travel spot. A sanctuary of natural life protected by a system of natural reserves as Punta Norte, Caleta Valdes and Punta Delgada, (the only reproductive continental spots of this species in the world), the seal beaches of Punta Piramides and the Island of The Birds.

The Southern Right Whale comes every year to Golfo Nuevo and Golfo San Jose which mark the silhouette of the Peninsula, constituting one of the most popular attractions of the region.

From Trelew heading west and at very few kilometers are the localities of Gaiman and Dolavon living the rich history and traditions of the well established Welsh colonization.

These towns offer a palpable experience of the architecture, the people and their customs. The museums of history and folk literature, the austere chapels and the Welsh Tea Houses, are a proposal to which it is difficult to resist.

Coastal Region - Beaches Corridor

This region is a paradise for the lovers of the ocean and marine fauna, since it brings together waters of intense blue color or green emerald, extensive plateaus that many protected species showing permanently fragments of prehistoric times, calm and picturesque beaches, protected by the walls of the plateaus and caressed by the Patagonian wind.

Important fauna, nature reserves shelter sea species of mammals as: seals, marine elephant, gray and dark dolphins, and others as Penguin Magallánico and Emperor Penguin, and big variety of birds that furrow the sky, the ocean and populate the beaches.

The coastal region offers also thrilling eco travel experiences, as the opportunity to be very close to the majestic Southern Right Whale, declared a Natural Monument.

Among the activities available are diverse aquatic sports as diving, windsurfing, sky jet, or simply to freshen up in any of the beaches resorts, or experience ecological and paleontology safaris along with expert guides.

In summer it is possible to enjoy the radiant Patagonian sun in its seducing beaches, take bike, or horse rides, or walks observing the fauna and the local geography, or stay for beach camping.

The Patagonia is " Wise and Perfect ", that is why, in this region, the visitor is able to amaze himself with the richest original indigenous culture, Welsh tradition, natural paleontology exhibitions or spectacular recreations in the (MEF) Egidio Feruglio Museum, the most important of South America regarding the infrastructure of petroleum development.

The most important points to cover in the Beaches Corridor, each one with its particular delight, are the following ones:

Dique Florentino Ameghino, Comodoro Rivadavia, Gaiman and Dolavon,

Peninsula Valdes, Puerto Piramides, Puerto Madryn, Trelew, Punta Tombo, Camarones.